Darmen Sadvakasov is a Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

i chess grandmaster. Sadvakasov received the International Master title in 1995 and the GM title in 1998 as a result of his victory in the World Junior Championship

World Junior Chess Championship

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. He tied for first at Bali

Bali

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 2000 and the 2003 Samba Cup, and won first place outright at Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 2004. In 2007 he tied for 1st-8th with Hikaru Nakamura

Hikaru Nakamura

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, Alexander Shabalov

Alexander Shabalov

Alexander Shabalov is an American chess grandmaster, the multiple winner of the U.S. Chess Championships; he was the 2007 US Champion. He was born in Latvia, and like his fellow Latvians Alexei Shirov and Mikhail Tal he is known for courting complications even at the cost of objective soundness...

, Varuzhan Akobian

Varuzhan Akobian

Varuzhan Akobian is an Armenian-American Grandmaster of chess, originally from Armenia, who now resides in Los Angeles.He became an International Master at age 16...

, Zviad Izoria

Zviad Izoria

Zviad Izoria is a chess grandmaster.-Selected tournament victories:* 2000: Victory at the World Youth Chess Championship for U16.* 2000: Winner of the Moscow Kasparov Cup....

, Victor Mikhalevski

Victor Mikhalevski

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, Magesh Chandran Panchanathan

Magesh Chandran Panchanathan

Magesh Chandran Panchanathan is an Indian chess Grandmaster.In 2003 he won Asian Junior Championship in Sri Lanka. In 2005 he tied for first with Kamil Mitoń in the 33rd World Open, played in Philadelphia over the Independence Day weekend. In the same year he came first in the UTD GM Invitational...

 and Justin Sarkar in the Miami Open. Sadvakasov also won matches against Viktor Korchnoi

Viktor Korchnoi

Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi ; pronounced in the original Russian as "karch NOY"; Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, born March 23, 1931 is a professional chess player, author and currently the oldest active grandmaster on the tournament circuit...

 in 2003 by the score 5–3 and former World Champion

World Chess Championship

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 Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once...

in 2004 by the score 4.5–3.5.

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