[7] Sjugirov played for team "Russia 4" on the first board at the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, where he defeated Magnus Carlsen among others.

[12] In 2014 he won the Lev Polugaevsky Memorial in Samara on tiebreak over Alexey Goganov and the World University Chess Championship in Katowice.

[13] In the same year Sjugirov finished fourth in the strong Qatar Masters Open, behind Yu Yangyi, Anish Giri and Vladimir Kramnik respectively.

[16] Two months later, he took part in the second edition of the Qatar Masters Open, where he tied for third place with Vladimir Kramnik, Sergey Karjakin, Ni Hua and Vassily Ivanchuk, finishing fifth on tiebreak.

[18] The following year, he tied 1st–2nd with Daniil Dubov in the Russian Higher League in Sochi, taking second place on tiebreak.