AI Accoona Toolbar driven by a Fritz 9 prototype engine, drew against him. He made his first appearance at Linares in 2005, finishing tied last with 4/12 points. In 2006, Kasimdzhanov won the knockout Corsica Masters tournament. Kasimdzhanov won gold in the individual men's rapid event at the 2010 Asian Games. In the following year he won the inaugural Central Asia Chess Cup in Tashkent. In 2015 he won the Highlander Cup, a rapid knockout tournament, at the Global Chess Festival, that took place in Budapest and was organized by Judit Polgar. Trainer and second Kasimdzhanov was a second for former World Champion Viswanathan Anand, having worked with Anand in preparation for and during his successful World Chess Championship title defences in October 2008 against Vladimir Kramnik, April–May 2010 against Veselin Topalov and in May 2012 against Boris Gelfand. He coached the German national team which won the European Team Chess Championship in 2011. Kasimdzhanov was the trainer of Sergey Karjakin in the Candidates Tournament of 2014, and of Fabiano Caruana in the Candidates Tournament 2016. He was one of Caruana's seconds during the 2018 World Chess Championship match. He currently trains young Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi. At the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in 2023, young grandmaster Nodirbek Abdusattorov revealed that he had begun working with his fellow Uzbek grandmaster Kasimdzhanov over the past year. Notable games Rustam Kasimdzhanov vs Viktor Korchnoi, Julian Borowski-A 4th 2002, French Defense: Classical, Burn Variation (C11), 1–0 Michael Adams vs Rustam Kasimdzhanov, FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament 2004, Sicilian Defense: Nyezhmetdinov–Rossolimo Attack (B30), 0–1 Veselin Topalov vs Rustam Kasimdzhanov, FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament 2004, Queen's Indian Defense: Anti-Queen's Indian System (E17), 0–1 Rustam Kasimdzhanov vs Viswanathan Anand, FIDE World Championship Tournament 2005, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, English Attack Anti-English (B90), 1–0 References Notes External links 1979 births Living people World chess champions Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Uzbekistani chess players Sportspeople from Tashkent Asian Games medalists in chess Chess players at the 2006 Asian Games Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games Uzbeks Asian Games gold medalists for Uzbekistan Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games