 Nakhbayeva was the top seed in the 2014 Kazakhstan Chess Championships for Women, a tournament in which she won the championship by the score of 7.5/9 points to finish a full point ahead of the second-place finisher.In doing so, Nakhbayeva won the Kazakhstani championship four years in a row.In 2018 Nakhbayeva participated in the Women's World Chess Championship and placed 28th in the tournament.