Top Chess Players in Azerbaijan

GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2715 | #25

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov is a super-grandmaster from Azerbaijan. He was the number-two ranked player in the world in the FIDE ratings list of February 2018. According to 2700chess.com, Mamedyarov reached his peak rating of 2826 on September 30, 2018—the sixth-highest rating of all time. Mamedyarov...

GM Teimour Radjabov 2689 | #33

Teimur Radjabov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan—the same city as former world champion Garry Kasparov—on March 12, 1987. Radjabov’s promising youth career translated into runs at the FIDE world championship in his teens and the reunified championship in the 2010’s. Radjabov’s...

GM Aydin Suleymanli

GM Aydin Suleymanli is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster who was the world under-14 champion in 2019.

GM Eltaj Safarli 2648 | #57

GM Eltaj Safarli is an Azerbaijani grandmaster who qualified for the 2023 FIDE World Cup.

GM Rauf Mamedov 2636 | #73

Rauf Mamedov is an Azerbaijani grandmaster. Early in his career, Mamedov's most notable success came when he won first place in the U16 European Youth Championship in 1999. Five years later, he became a grandmaster in 2004 and won the Dubai Open. Mamedov went on to win the Azerbaijani Chess Championship...

GM Vasif Durarbayli

GM Vasif Durarbayli is a grandmaster from Azerbaijan who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup. He is a two-time Azerbaijani Chess Champion (2021, 2023).

GM Mahammad Muradli

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GM Nijat Abasov 2586 | #136

Nijat Abasov is an Azerbaijani grandmaster and the 2017 Azerbaijani Chess Champion. That year he won the Baku Open tournament, and another notable tournament win came at the 2016 Zurich Christmas Open. Abasov became a GM at the age of 15 and entered the list of the top-100 players in the world in November...

GM Vugar Asadli

GM Vugar Asadli is an Azerbaijani grandmaster who qualified for the 2023 FIDE World Cup.

GM Misratdin Iskandarov

GM Misratdin Iskandarov is an Azerbaijani grandmaster who qualified for the 2023 FIDE World Cup.

GM Vugar Rasulov 2515 | #273

Vugar Rasulov is an Azerbaijani Grandmaster.

IM Read Samadov 2508 | #285

IM Read Samadov is an Azerbaijani chess player who qualified for the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship.

IM Khagan Ahmad 2483 | #359

IM Shiroghlan Talibov 2482 | #365

GM Namig Guliyev 2481 | #371

IM Ulviyya Fataliyeva

IM Murad Ibrahimli

GM Azer Mirzoev

IM Vugar Manafov 2432 | #573

IM Kamal Aghasiyev

FM Shahin Valiyev

IM Orkhan Abdulov 2383 | #882

IM Gunay Mammadzada 2374 | #957

Gunay Mammadzada is an Azerbaijani international master and two-time national champion. She won the Azerbaijani Chess Championship in 2017 and 2019 following an impressive youth career. After winning the Girls U10 Youth World Championship in 2009, she won the 2013 Girls U14 European Youth Chess Championship. In...

FM Farid Mustafayev

FM Umid Aslanov