Career
He played in the bronze medal-winning United States of America team in the 2006 Chess Olympiad. He was ranked Number. Born in Kazan, Russia, he was equal first alongside Vladimir Kramnik and Andrei Kharlov at the 1991 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Under-26 Championship. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1993.
In 2002 he started to play for the United States, where he has lived in New Haven, Connecticut.
He tied for first in the 2006 World Open. In 2015 Ibragimov returned to the Russian Chess Federation.
He is an ethnic Tatar.
