Saparmyrat Atabayev

Saparmyrat Atabayev is a Turkmen chess Grandmaster. He was awarded the title of International Master in 2017 and Grandmaster in 2025.

Chess career

Atabayev has represented Turkmenistan in a number of Chess Olympiads. He was selected in 2014, but the team did not play any of their games. In 2016 he scored 6/11 on board three, while in 2018 he scored 5½/11 on board two.
He qualified to play in the Chess World Cup 2021 where he was drawn against Viktor Erdős in the first round, but was unable to play.