the life of Najmuddinov

Najmuddinov was born in Aktobe, in the Russian Empire, now in Kazakhstan, to a Tatar family. His parents died when he was young and left him with his two brothers in the care of their older brother. The orphan child moved with his family to Kazan in Tatarstan.
  Najmeddinov was naturally gifted in chess and checkers, he learned chess from watching other players in a chess club, then he challenged one player and beat him, to challenge and beat another as well. At the age of five, he participated in the Kazan Junior Competition, winning all fifteen matches. In the same month that he learned the game of checkers, he reached the semi-finals and won second place, and in the same year he finished sixth in the Russian Championship for checkers, but later he gave up 
the checkers for chess.
Results with world champions
Najmuddinov beat some world champions such as Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky. He also managed to beat international chess grandmasters such as David Bronstein, Lev Pologaevsky and Efim Geller.

perpetuate his memory
His name was given to the Kazan Chess School.

“No one finds complications like those of Necmetdinov,” Mikhail Botvinnik
"Nedemdinov is the great master of initiative" Lev Pologaevsky
“His games reveal the beauty of chess, and make you love the game not for the sake of high points and prestige, but for the harmony and elegance of this particular world.” Mikhail Tal.
“Rashid Najmeddinov is a gifted chess player.” David Brostein.
Prostein also added that Najmiddinov was proficient in mathematics. 

Najmiddinov participated in World War II, so he had to postpone his chess career until 1946. In 1949, the Russian Championship was held in checkers in Kazan, which Najmiddinov attended as a spectator, until one of the participants failed to attend, and Najmiddinov agreed to take his place, although he did not has been playing for 15 years; He won all the matches and qualified for the final, which was to be held after the chess competitions in which he was also a participant. He won the chess competitions and then played the checkers final to finish second.
chess
playing style
Necmettinov was an aggressive and creative striker, who managed to beat the best players in the world.
Championship of Russia
Najmeddinov holds a historical record of winning the Russian Chess Championship five times in the years 1950, 1951, 1953, 1957 and 1957.
International Professor title
The International Chess Federation awarded him the title of International Master after winning second place after Viktor Korchnoi in Bucharest in 1954. This was the only time that Necmetdinov played outside the Soviet Union. Necmetdinov had extraordinary talent, yet he did not obtain the title of grandmaster. The great professor Yuri Averbakh commented on this in his interview with Dirk Jan Goizendam by saying:

“Najmuddinov...if the attack is capable of killing anyone, including Tal. But my numbers with him were 8½–½ because I left him no chance of an effective match, in such circumstances he would start to lose control because he was trying to complicate things.