Denis Khismatullin | |
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Country | Russia |
Born |
Neftekamsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
28 December 1984
Title | Grandmaster |
FIDE rating | 2651 (April 2017) |
Peak rating | 2714 (March 2014) |
Denis Khismatullin (born 28 December 1984) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
Born in Neftekamsk, Khismatullin lives in Ufa, and studied at the Ufa Oil University. He is the first grandmaster from Bashkiria.
Khismatullin won the silver medal at the World U16 championship in 2000. In 2011 he tied for 4th–10th with Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Gata Kamsky, Rauf Mamedov, Ivan Cheparinov, Maxim Rodshtein and Yu Yangyi in the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in the first round by Mikhail Kobalia. In 2013 Khismatullin tied for 1st–11th with Pavel Eljanov, Dmitry Kokarev, Alexander Areshchenko, Maxim Matlakov, Oleg Korneev, Dragan Solak, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Sanan Sjugirov, Ivan Bukavshin and Ildar Khairullin in the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg. He has also served as Dmitry Jakovenko's second.