| Murtas Kazhgaleyev | |
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at the Dresden Olympiad, 2008 |
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| Country | Kazakhstan |
| Born | November 17, 1973 Kazakhstan |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2597 (No. 235 on the July 2011 FIDE rating list) |
| Peak rating | 2653 (November 2009) |
Murtas Kazhgaleyev (Kazakh: Мұртас Мұратұлы Қажығалиев; born 17 November 1973) is a chess Grandmaster (1998) from Kazakhstan.
He played for Kazakhstan in the Chess Olympiads of 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2008.[1] In 2004, he tied for first with Slim Belkhodja in the 27th Syre Memorial in Issy les Moulineaux.[2] In 2006 he won the men's rapid tournament in the 15th Asian Games in Doha.[3] In 2007 he tied for 3rd–9th with Dmitry Svetushkin, Vladimir Malakhov, Evgeny Vorobiov, Pavel Smirnov, Vladimir Dobrov and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament.[4] In September 2009 he came first in the Paris Championship.[5] In 2011 he tied for 2nd–5th with Parimarjan Negi, Csaba Balogh and Jon Ludvig Hammer in the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship.[6]
In the January 2011 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2637, making him Kazakhstan's number one.