Rauf Mamedov ( az, Rauf Məmmədov; born 26 April 1988) is an Azerbaijani

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grandmaster and a three-time national champion. He competed in the

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in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2015.

Career

Born in Baku, Mamedov started playing chess at the age of seven. In 2004, he won the Under 14 section of the European Youth Chess Championships. In the same year he became a Grandmaster (GM), following his victory of the Dubai Open. Mamedov won the Azerbaijani championship in 2006, 2008 and 2015. He competed in the

in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2015. In 2009, he tied for 1st-3rd with

Yuriy Kuzubov Yuriy Kuzubov ( ua, Юрій Кузубов; his first name is sometimes spelled "Yuri" or "Yury"; born 26 January 1990 in Sychyovka, Smolensk Oblast)Dmitry Andreikin Dmitry Vladimirovich Andreikin (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Андрейкин, born 5 February 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster, World Junior Chess Champion in 2010 and two-time Russian Chess Champion (2012 and 2018 ...

in the category 16 SPICE Cup tournament at Lubbock, Texas. Mamedov won the Corsica Masters blitz tournament in 2011. In 2015 Mamedov won the European

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Championship in

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. In 2016, he won the men's blitz chess event of the IMSA Elite Mind Games in

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, China. In February 2018, he participated 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 Rapids are sections ...

. He finished tenth out of ninety-two, scoring 6/9 (+5–2=2). In April 2018, he participated in the fifth edition of Shamkir Chess, finishing ninth with a score of 4/9 (+0–1=8).

Team competitions

He played in the gold medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the

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in 2009, 2013 and 2017. He produced the best board 4 performance of the tournament in 2017, scoring 8/9 for a 2920 .

Personal life

Rauf Mamedov is

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international master Nataliya Buksa.

Gallery

File:Azeri Chess Team EuroChess 2007 c.jpg, Mamedov with Azerbaijani Chess team, winners of

in 2007 File:Rauf Mamedov 2007.jpg, Mamedov at EuroChess 2007

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