Aydin Suleymanli ( az, Aydın Süleymanlı; born 22 March 2005) is an Azerbaijani

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grandmaster (2021).

Biography

Aydin Suleymanli repeatedly represented Azerbaijan at the

European Youth Chess Championship The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007. Until 2002 there was als ...

s and

World Youth Chess Championship The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015, the event has been split into "World Cade ...

s in different age groups, where he won three gold medals: in 2013, in

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at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U08 age group and was awarded the Candidate Master (CM) title, In 2017, he won the European Youth Chess Championship in the U12 age group in

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and was awarded the title of FIDE Master (FM). In 2014, at

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, he won European Youth Chess Championships in blitz and rapid in the U10 age group. In 2019, he won World Youth Chess Championship in O14 age group. In February 2020, Suleymanli finished first in the

Aeroflot Open The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament; in 2013 it was converted to a rapid and blitz event, whil ...

. In 2021, he won the Niksic Memorial with a score of 8/9. In the 8th round of the competition, he won against local chess player

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. Due to this victory, at the age of 16, he became the 27th grandmaster of Azerbaijan. In December 2023, he won the rapid section of the Vugar Gashimov Memorial 2023 supertournament by scoring 11 points.

Personal life

His current coach is GM

Farid Abbasov Farid Abbasov ( az, Fərid Abbasov), (born January 31, 1979) is a chess Grandmaster (2007) from Azerbaijan. He is ranked 14th in Azerbaijan as of July 2021. In 1997, he took 2nd place in the European Youth Chess Championship. In 2001, he was a ...

. Aydin Suleymanli is one of the first to apply the Web3 trend in chess. Suleymanli offers fans a modern fan experience through its exclusive NFT collection.

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chess games at 365Chess.com 2005 births Living people Chess players from Baku Chess Grandmasters Azerbaijani chess players {{Azerbaijan-chess-bio-stub World Youth Chess Champions