Rauf Mamedov

Rauf Mamedov
Rauf Mamedov, World Junior Chess Championship (Gaziantep 2008)
Country	Azerbaijan
Born	26 April 1988 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2688 (December 2016)
Peak rating	2684 (November 2016)

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

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  Mamedov with Azerbaijani Chess team, winners of European Team Chess Championship in 2007.

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  Mamedov at EuroChess 2007.

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.

External links

• Rauf Mamedov chess games at 365Chess.com
• Rauf Mamedov player profile and games at Chessgames.com