Rustam Kasimdzhanov
ABOUT RUSTAM KASIMDZHANOV
Highly ranked chess Grandmaster from Uzbekistan who won the World Chess Championship in 2004.
He burst onto the world chess scene in 1999 by winning the World Junior Championship.
He won gold in the individual men's rapid event at the 2010 Asian Games.
He was born and raised in Uzbekistan, which was then the Soviet Union.
He has faced former World Champion Garry Kasparov in competition.
