Nodirbek Abdusattorov is the most prominent player of Uzbekistan’s chess renaissance and one of the world’s most accomplished prodigies. He earned the Grandmaster title in 2017 at the age of thirteen years and one month, then the world’s third-youngest ever.
His career-defining result came at the 2021 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship in Warsaw, where at seventeen he defeated Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, and Ian Nepomniachtchi on his way to winning the title — becoming the youngest world rapid champion in history. The result also gave Uzbekistan its first individual world championship in chess since the Soviet era.
In the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai in 2022, he played first board for the Uzbek national team that won the gold medal — Uzbekistan’s first Olympiad title, in a field that included the United States, India, and Norway. His individual gold for board-one performance further confirmed his status as one of the strongest players under twenty-five.
His classical rating crossed 2700 for the first time in 2022 and has since climbed past 2750. His playing style is sharp, combative, and notably resilient in time pressure — characteristics that suit him to the rapid and blitz formats where he has had his greatest successes.