Rinat Jumabayev

Rinat Jumabayev (Kazakh: Ринат Жұмабаев, also spelled Rinat Jumabayev; born 23 July 1989) is a Kazakh chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2009.

Many times Jumabayev represented Kazakhstan at the Asian Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age categories. He won the Kazakhstan Chess Championship in 2014, and has also won two silver (2010, 2011), and two bronze (2007, 2013) medals.

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

In 2005, Jumabayev won the international chess tournament in Mezhdurechensk. He completed the Grandmaster norm 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 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.