Temur Kuybokarov

Kuybokarov was taught chess at the age of five by his mother and first coach, Tatyana Igonina.^{[citation needed]}

At the 2010 Asian Youth Championships, held in Beijing, China, he finished in a tie for first place in the U10 section, taking the bronze medal on tiebreak score.^[3] At the age of 11, Kyubokarov (then Igonin) defeated World Champion Viswanathan Anand in a simultaneous exhibition, a feat which received worldwide attention.^[4][5]

In 2016, he moved with his family to Australia,^[6] where he lives in Perth, Western Australia. In December of the same year, Kuybokarov won the 8th Penang Open.^[7][8] He transferred his national federation from Uzbekistan to Australia in 2018.^[9] He won the 2017 and 2019 Australian Open Championship.^[10][11][12] Kuybokarov achieved the norms required for the title of grandmaster in the following events: Australian Open 2017; Aeroflot Open 2017; and Gold Coast Open 2018. He also scored the fourth norm at the 2018 Abu Dhabi Masters.^[13]

In January 2019 Kuybokarov was named one of Western Australia's 50 Rising Stars.^[6] In December Kuybokarov won the 2019 Australasian Masters GM norm tournament in Melbourne with a score of 8½/9 points.^[14] The next month Kuybokarov won the Australian Championship in Sydney,^[15] the first West Australian player in the 135-year history of the event to win the title.^[16] In November 2021 Kuybokarov scored 5.5/11 in the FIDE Grand Swiss in Riga, Latvia and won the Mersin Open in Turkey with 7.5/9. In February 2022 Kuybokarov won the Perth Open for the first time.