Top Chess Players in Azerbaijan

GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2717 | #23

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 | #36

Teimur Radjabov nasceu em Baku, Azerbaijão, a mesma cidade que o campeão mundial Garry Kasparov, em 12 de março de 1987. A promissora carreira juvenil de Radjabov o levou a competir o Campeonato Mundial da FIDE na sua adolescência e o campeonato reunificado em 2010. A carreira...

GM Aydin Suleymanli

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

GM Eltaj Safarli 2648 | #58

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

GM Rauf Mamedov 2636 | #75

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 Mahammad Muradli

Bio coming soon.

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 Nijat Abasov 2599 | #118

Nijat Abasov é um grande mestre do Azerbaijão e o campeão de xadrez do Azerbaijão de 2017. Naquele ano, ele venceu o torneio Baku Open, e outra vitória notável veio no Zurich Christmas Open de 2016. Abasov se tornou GM aos 15 anos e entrou na lista dos 100 melhores...

GM Vugar Asadli

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

GM Vugar Rasulov 2522 | #258

Vugar Rasulov is an Azerbaijani Grandmaster.

GM Misratdin Iskandarov

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

IM Read Samadov 2520 | #261

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

IM Shiroghlan Talibov 2474 | #397

IM Khagan Ahmad 2472 | #406

GM Namig Guliyev 2468 | #422

IM Ulviyya Fataliyeva

IM Murad Ibrahimli

IM Vugar Manafov 2444 | #519

IM Kamal Aghasiyev

GM Azer Mirzoev

FM Shahin Valiyev

FM Suleyman Suleymanli

IM Orkhan Abdulov 2383 | #875

FM Tunar Davudov

IM Gunay Mammadzada 2374 | #940

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...