The Azerbaijan Chess Federation ( az, Azərbaycan Şahmat Federasiyası, ''AŞF'') is the governing

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

organization in

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...

and is affiliated to the World Chess Federation

FIDE The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national c ...

. The Azerbaijan Chess Federation was founded in 1920 when Azerbaijan became a member of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

as the

Azerbaijan SSR Azerbaijan ( az, Азәрбајҹан, Azərbaycan, italics=no), officially the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azerbaijan SSR; az, Азәрбајҹан Совет Сосиалист Республикасы, Azərbaycan Sovet Sosialist R ...

the same year, and was reorganized in 1992, after Azerbaijan attained its independence with the

dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

, and became a member of FIDE the same year. Its headquarters are in

Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...

Elman Rustamov Elman Rustamov ( az, Elman Rüstəmov) is an Azerbaijani politician. He was the chairman of Azerbaijan Central Bank from January 1995 until April 2022. Biography Rustamov was born 29 June 1952 in Jabrail district of Azerbaijan. Education I ...

was the President of the Azerbaijan Chess Federation since 2007. Elman Rustamov & Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

Executive committee

The executive committee includes: *President – Mahir Mammedov *First Vice-president –

Faiq Hasanov Faiq Hasanov (transliterated as Gasanov; az, Faiq Həsənov; born April 13, 1940 in Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR) is an Azerbaijani chess International Arbiter (1980), coach, television presenter, author and vice-president of Azerbaijan Chess Fed ...

*Vice-president – Seymur Talibov *General Secretary – Ilaha Gadimova

Members

Its members include: Grandmasters International Masters Women Grandmasters Women International MastersAzerbaijan Chess Federation – Chess Players – Azerbaijani Women International Masters

Competitions

The federation organizes the following chess competitions: *

Azerbaijani Chess Championship The Azerbaijani Chess Championship is usually held in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is organised by the Azerbaijan Chess Federation (ACF). The first championship was played in 1934, when Azerbaijan was a part of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet ...

*Azerbaijan Women's Chess Championship *Azerbaijan Children's Chess Championship

International events

* FIDE Grand-Prix 2008 (April 19 – May 6, 2008) in

42nd Chess Olympiad The 42nd Chess Olympiad ( az, 42-ci Şahmat Olimpiadası; also known as the Baku Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an openAlthough sometimes referred to as the "men's division", this ...

(2016) in Baku

References

External links

* National members of the European Chess Union Chess in Azerbaijan

Chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...