Nafisa Muminova

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Nafisa Muminova, born February 1, 1990, in Tashkent, is an Uzbek chess player. She became a Woman Grandmaster in 2013, the first Uzbek woman to reach that title. Her peak FIDE rating was 2360 in November 2010, and her rating was 2226 in January 2023.

She won the Uzbek Women's Championship three times: in 2008, 2009, and 2011. She also earned a silver medal at the 2008 Asian Youth Championship and won silver on the first board for Uzbekistan at the 2010 Asian Games team event. She played in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2008 and 2010. Muminova began playing chess at age 9 and has worked as a chess coach since 2012. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Sports Psychology and co-founded Sky Chess, a chess school in Tashkent, where she is CEO.

In international play, she represented Uzbekistan on top boards in the Women’s Olympiads (2008, 2010, 2012) and on the first board at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games. She helped the Uzbek team finish second at the 2010 Asian Games. She was briefly listed with a German club in 2014/15 but did not play.