Nijat Azad oglu AbasovGrandmaster title application
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i chess grandmaster. In February 2020, he reached his all-time-highest rating of 2670 and was ranked as No. 3 in Azerbaijan and No. 67 in the

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Early years

Abasov was awarded the title of

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in 2009. He gained his third and final

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required for the title of Grandmaster in the Azerbaijani Solidarity Day event in late December 2010, in which he placed first. FIDE awarded him the title in February 2011.

Professional career

In November 2015, Abasov won the Cultural Village tournament in

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to qualify for the 2016

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Challengers tournament. In this latter he scored 6½ points out of 13. Abasov played on team Azerbaijan 2 in the

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. In late December 2016, he won the

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on tiebreak from

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and

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. In 2017, Abasov won both the

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and the Baku Open tournament. In October 2019, Nijat earned 6.5 points (+2=9-0) in the

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, finishing 15th out of 154 players. In November that year, Abasov climbed to #93 in the world rankings and entered FIDE Top 100 for the first time in his career.

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* * * * * 1995 births Living people Chess grandmasters Chess players from Baku {{Azerbaijan-chess-bio-stub abasov is masterassain on lichess