Rauf Mamedov

Rauf Mamedov

Rauf Mamedov, Heraklion 2007
Country Azerbaijan
Born (1988-04-26) 26 April 1988
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2641 (January 2016)
Peak rating 2679 (May 2011)

Rauf Mamedov (Azerbaijani: Rauf Məmmədov; born 26 April 1988) is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster.[1]

Career

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Mamedov started playing chess at the age of seven. In 2004, he became a Grandmaster (GM), following his victory during international tournament in Dubai.

In 2009, he tied for 1st-3rd with Yuriy Kuzubov and Dmitry Andreikin in the category 16 SPICE Cup tournament at Lubbock, Texas.[2]

Mamedov won the Corsica Masters blitz tournament in 2011.[3]

In 2015 Mamedov won the European Blitz Chess Championship in Minsk.[4]

He won the Azerbaijani championship three times (2006, 2008, 2015).

Team competitions

He played in the gold medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the European Team Chess Championship in Novi Sad in 2009, alongside Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Teimour Radjabov, Vugar Gashimov and Gadir Guseinov, previously winning bronze medal in 2007.[5][6]

Gallery

References

  1. "Azerbaijani chess player wins first round of Aeroflot Open festival". Archived from the original on 7 March 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
  2. "Archive. Tournament report November 2009: Spice Cup 2009 - Group A". FIDE. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
  3. Рауф Мамедов стал победителем блиц-турнира во Франции (in Russian). Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  4. "Rauf Mamedov wins European Blitz Championship 2015". FIDE. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  5. Edward Scimia (2 November 2009). "Azerbaijan Takes Gold in European Team Championship". Retrieved 13 February 2010.
  6. "Gold for Azerbaijan and Russia in Novi Sad". 31 October 2009. Archived from the original on 6 February 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2010.

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