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{{Infobox chess player
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|name = Murtas Kazhgaleyev
|caption = at the [[38th Chess Olympiad|Dresden Olympiad]], 2008
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|country = {{KAZ}}
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|11|17|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Oral, Kazakhstan|Uralsk]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Murtas Kazhgaleyev: Chess players should start writing about their lives|url=http://www.chessdom.com/murtas-kazhgaleyev-chess-players-should-start-writing-about-their-lives/|publisher=Chessdom|accessdate=5 April 2016}}</ref> [[Kazakh SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
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|title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (1998)
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|peakrating = 2653 (November 2009)
|FideID = 13700316
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{{Medal|Competition|[[Asian Games]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2006 Asian Games|2006 Doha]]|[[Chess at the 2006 Asian Games|Men's Individual]]}}
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'''Murtas Kazhgaleyev''' ({{lang-kk|Мұртас Мұратұлы Қажығалиев}}; born 17 November 1973) is a [[Kazakhstan]]i [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]].

In 2004, he tied for first with [[Slim Belkhodja]] in the 27th Syre Memorial in [[Issy les Moulineaux]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic500.html#11|title=TWIC 500: 27th Syre Memorial|last=Crowther|first=Mark|date=2004-06-07|publisher=London Chess Center|accessdate=1 January 2010}}</ref> Kazhgaleyev competed in the [[Chess World Cup 2005]]: he knocked out [[Evgeny Alekseev (chess player)|Evgeny Alekseev]] in the first round to reach round two, losing to [[Teimour Radjabov]] and thus exiting the competition.
He won the [[Chess at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's individual rapid|men's individual rapid tournament]] at the [[2006 Asian Games|15th Asian Games]] in [[Doha]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Crowther|first=Mark|title=The Week in Chess: 15th Asian Games|url=http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic633.html#8|publisher=ChessCenter.com|date=2006-12-25|accessdate=2009-06-23}}</ref>

In 2007 he tied for 3rd–9th with [[Dmitry Svetushkin]], [[Vladimir Malakhov (chess player)|Vladimir Malakhov]], [[Evgeny Vorobiov]], [[Pavel Smirnov]], [[Vladimir Dobrov]] and [[Aleksej Aleksandrov]] in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3655|title=Illya Nyzhnyk wins Group B in Moscow Open|date=2007-02-07|publisher=ChessBase|accessdate=18 May 2010}}</ref> At the [[Chess at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games|2007 Asian Indoor Games]], which took place in [[Macau]], Kazhgaleyev won two silver medals, in the men's individual classical tournament and in the men's individual rapid event.

In September 2009 he finished first in the [[Paris City Chess Championship]] for the second time, having won it also in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5733|title=Murtas Kazhgaleyev wins Ile-de-France Paris Championship|last=Mihajlova|first=Diana|date=2009-09-03|publisher=ChessBase|accessdate=2009-09-03}}</ref>

In January 2011 Kazhgaleyev took part in the Group C of the [[Tata Steel Chess Tournament]] in [[Wijk aan Zee]], the Netherlands, where he finished seventh scoring 7/13 points.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tata Steel: Nakamura wins first Super GM event|url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/tata-steel-nakamura-wins-first-super-gm-event|publisher=ChessBase|accessdate=10 April 2016|date=2011-01-30}}</ref> In April 2011 he tied for 2nd–5th with [[Parimarjan Negi]], [[Csaba Balogh]] and [[Jon Ludvig Hammer]] in the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7164|title=Indian GM Abhijeet Gupta wins Dubai Open|date=2011-04-20|publisher=ChessBase.com|accessdate=23 April 2011}}</ref> Later that year Kazhgaleyev competed in the [[Chess World Cup 2011]], where he was eliminated in round one by [[Dmitry Andreikin]]. He shared first place with [[Vasily Papin]] and Rustam Khusnutdinov in the 2014 [[Australasian Masters]] tournament.<ref>{{cite web|title=Australasian Masters tournament 2014|url=https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/8469-australasian-masters-tournament-2014.html|publisher=FIDE|accessdate=5 April 2016|date=2014-12-24}}</ref>

In January 2015 he finished second to [[Ni Hua]] in the [[Australian  Chess  Championship#Australian Open|Australian Open]].<ref>[http://chess-results.com/tnr157180.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=11&wi=821 2015 Australian Open] Chess-Results</ref> In May of the same year Kazhgaleyev won the [[Kazakhstani Chess Championship]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chess-news.ru/en/node/19053 |title=Murtas Kazhgaleyev Wins Kazakhstan Championship for the First Time |website=Chess-News.ru |date=21 May 2015 |accessdate=17 August 2015}}</ref>

Kazhgaleyev played for Kazakhstan in the [[Chess Olympiad]]s of 1996, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2010 and 2012.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bartelski |first= Wojciech|title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Kazhgaleyev, Murtas|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/nffhtfdj.html|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=2009-06-23}}</ref>

==Notable games==
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1185555 Bin-Sattar Reefat vs Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Asian Championships 2001, Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65), 0-1]
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1326725 Joel Lautier vs Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Grand Prix d'Echecs 2004, King's Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation (E81), 0-1]
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1378231 Teimour Radjabov vs Murtas Kazhgaleyev, FIDE World Cup 2005, Spanish Game: Exchange (C69), 0-1]
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1499753 Murtas Kazhgaleyev vs Pawel Jaracz, Ordix Open 2008, Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical Variation (E32), 1-0]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.365chess.com/players/Murtas_Kazhgaleyev Murtas Kazhgaleyev] chess games at 365Chess.com
*{{chessgames player|id=39709}}
*[http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S063332000000111000000000015710100 Murtas Kazhgaleyev] at [[Chessmetrics]]

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[[Category:Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games]]
[[Category:People from Oral, Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan]]


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