The International Chess Federation master from Uzbekistan Temur Igonin has earned a bronze medal at the schoolchildren’s chess world championships that has wrapped up in the Greek city of Porto Carras.

At the world championships organized under the auspices of FIDE – International Chess Federation, around six hundred chess players from more than forty countries have competed in related age categories.

Temur Igonin, the 6th-grade pupil of the Tashkent general school no. 27, has defended the honor of our Motherland in the contest among boys under 13 along with the nearly eighty chess players and came out unbeaten. During the championship, he defeated Stavropoulos Konstantinos of Greece, Rad Jannesar, Farouk Umar Uzer and Bahodir Uzen of Turkey and Russia’s Dinar Abelguzin. By making a draw in other four games, Temur Igonin ended up as a bronze medal winner of the world champs with seven points.

Temur was born in Tashkent in 2000. He has been in chess since he was 6. Having drawn the attention at nationwide competitions, the young chess player earned his first award at the international level in 2010 at Asia championships in China – a bronze in competitions among kids under 10. Thanks to his success at the continental challenge he was awarded the title of FIDE master.

Following his triumph as a prize winner at Uzbekistan champs in 2012, Temur came third among his fellows in classical chess and second in swift chess at the Asian championships in Sri Lanka. (Source: UzA)