Murtas Kazhgaleyev

Who is Murtas Kazhgaleyev?

Murtas Kazhgaleyev is a chess Grandmaster from Kazakhstan.

He played for Kazakhstan in the Chess Olympiads of 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2008. In 2004, he tied for first with Slim Belkhodja in the 27th Syre Memorial in Issy les Moulineaux. In 2006 he won the men's rapid tournament in the 15th Asian Games in Doha. In 2007 he tied for 3rd–9th with Dmitry Svetushkin, Vladimir Malakhov, Evgeny Vorobiov, Pavel Smirnov, Vladimir Dobrov and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament. In September 2009 he came first in the Paris Championship. In 2011 he tied for 2nd–5th with Parimarjan Negi, Csaba Balogh and Jon Ludvig Hammer in the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship.

In the January 2011 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2637, making him Kazakhstan's number one.