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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Chess Group

Full Name:  Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov
Nationality:  Azerbaijan
Born:  Sumgait, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union, April 12, 1985
Title:  Grandmaster (2002)
Peak Rating:  2820 (September 2018)

Professional chess career
2003, 2005 Won the World Junior Chess Championship
2005 Competed at the European Club Cup
February 2006 attained joint first place at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow
May 2006 Won the combined FiNet/Ordix rapid event
October 2006, Won the closed Essent Chess Tournament in Hoogeveen
2007 the Chess World Cup 2007, reached the third round
2008 Won the Corsican Circuit rapid knockout.
2009 Won the Mainz Ordix Open
2010 First place with Vladimir Kramnik and Gata Kamsky at the President's Cup in Baku, followed by joint first in the Tal Memorial
June 2013 Won the World Rapid Chess Championship, and the next month Won the Geneva Masters rapid event
November 2014 Won the Tal Memorial for the second time
June 2016 Won the 3rd Shamkir Chess Tournament, the Vugar Gashimov Memorial
April 2017 Won the Vugar Gashimov Memorial
April 2018 participated in the fifth edition of the Gashimov Memorial, finishing fourth
May 28 - June 7. 2018 competed in the sixth edition of Norway Chess
July 22 - August 1, 2018 competed in the 51st Biel Chess Festival, winning the event by one-and-a-half points ahead of Magnus Carlsen
June 14, 2020 Won Sharjah online Chess tournament
June 26, 2020 placed 2nd-6th in the 1st Mukhtar Ismagambetov Memorial
June 2021 Won Superbet Chess Classic tournament

World Championship cycles
2011, Mamedyarov was the tournament organisers' nominee, qualifying him for the Candidates tournament for the World Chess Championship 2012, where he lost to Boris Gelfand in the first round
2014 cycle qualified for the Candidates tournament by coming second in the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13. He finished fourth in the Candidates
2018 cycle qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2018 by winning the FIDE Grand Prix 2017. He finished as a runner-up in Candidates one point behind Caruana

Team competitions
He played for Azerbaijan at the Chess Olympiads of 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018. In 2009,2013 and 2017 he won the team gold medal for Azerbaijan at the European Team Chess Championship, having won the bronze medal in 2007 and silver in 2011