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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Rustem Hazitovich Dautov |
| Born | (1965-11-28)28 November 1965 (age 60) |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Germany |
| Title | Grandmaster (1990) |
| FIDE rating | 2544 (November 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2636 (January 2002) |
| Peak ranking | No. 26 (July 1994) |
Rustem Hazitovich Dautov (Рустем Хазитович Даутов, born 28 November 1965 inUfa) is a Germanchess player of Tatar origin who holds theFIDE title ofGrandmaster.[1]
In 1983, Dautov won the USSR U18 youth championship[2] and in 1986 theBelarusian Chess Championship. He completed his military service in the 1980s in the sports department of the Soviet army, which was stationed inEast Germany. In this period he participated in various GDR tournaments: in 1984, he was second (afterValery Chekhov) inBerlin. Tournament victories includeDresden in 1986,Rostock,Halle and Dresden in 1987, andMinsk and Dresden in 1988. In 1989 he was awarded theFIDE title ofInternational Master (IM). In 1990, he won inMünster and was awarded the Grandmaster (GM) title. The following year, he won tournaments inPorz andBad Lauterberg.
In 1992, Dautov settled inSeeheim-Jugenheim. Since 1996 he plays for the German national team. Between 1996 and 2004, he took part in fiveChess Olympiads. His biggest success was in 2000 at the34th Chess Olympiad inIstanbul, where he and his team got the silver medal (Russia scored gold). Dautov also scored two individual bronze medals, one for hisrating performance of 2788 and one for his 8.5/11 score on the third board.
In 1996, Dautov won (jointly withArtur Yusupov) the internationalGerman Chess Championship, he finished second in the championship of 1999. In the late 1990s he won tournaments inBad Homburg (1997),Seefeld (1997),Essen (1999) (shared withVadim Zvjaginsev,Emil Sutovsky andLarry Christiansen) andDeizisau 2002 (amongst others shared withVladimir Epishin andLevon Aronian). He participated in theFIDE World Chess Championship 2002 and theFIDE World Chess Championship 2004, where he was knocked out in the second and first round respectively.
Dautov took on professionalpoker in recent years and cut down on his chess-playing activities. However, he still plays regularly in the GermanChess Bundesliga forOSC Baden-Baden and the Swiss National League A for chess clubLucerne. He has written numerous articles forNew in Chess and authored aChessbase DVD 'Queen's gambit with 5.Bf4'.
Since the season 2016/17, Dautov plays for the team of SF Deizisau in the Second Chess Bundesliga.[3]
