Rinat Jumabayev

Rinat JūmabaevRussified transliteration|Rinat Dzhumabaev

Jumabayev has played for Kazakhstan in four Chess Olympiads (2012, 2016, 2018, and 2022) and the Asian Team Chess Championship in 2012.

In 2005, Jumabayev won the international chess tournament in Mezhdurechensk. He completed the norms required for the Grandmaster title in Zvenigorod (2008), Moscow (2009) and Gyumri (2009). In 2009, he took 3rd place in the Asian zonal tournament for Chess World Cup in Tashkent. In 2010, Jumabayev shared 1st place in Georgy Agzamov memorial in Tashkent. In 2011, he took 4th place in Asian Chess Championship in Mashhad. In 2011, Jumabayev lost in the first round to Laurent Fressinet in Chess World Cup. In 2012, he shared 3rd place in the Mikhail Chigorin memorial in Saint Petersburg. In 2013 he shared 1st place in Pavlodar. In 2015, Jumabayev won 3rd prize in Riga Technical University Open.

Jumabayev caused a major upset by eliminating Fabiano Caruana, then ranked #2 in the world, in the third round of the Chess World Cup 2021. Jumabayev was eliminated in the following round by Sam Shankland.

In 2024, Jumabaev won the Open Master Tournament at the Biel International Chess Festival.