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By Laman Ismayilova
Azerbaijani chess player Shahriyar Mammadyarov has won the
seventh round at the Norway Chess 2022 tournament, Azernews
reports.
Shahriyar Mammadyarov defeated his Dutch rival Anish Giri and
ranked third in the top 10, scoring 11.5 points.
Meanwhile, Teymur Rajabov lost to Indian Viswanathan Ananda in
an armageddon game within the Norway Chess 2022.
The Norway Chess 2022 will last until June 10. According to the
rules, chess players are awarded three points for victory. In case
of a draw, the participants determine the winner in the armageddon
game.
The first edition took place in 2013 and had ten participants,
including seven of the ten highest-rated players in the world per
the May 2013 FIDE World Rankings.
Shahriyar Mammadyarov is a three-fold European Team Champion
(2009, 2013, and 2017) and gold medalist at the 2012 Chess Olympiad
on the third board.
He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 2003 and repeated
his victory in 2005, becoming the only two-time champion, achieving
a 2,953 performance rating after eight rounds. After winning the
Essent Tournament in 2006, Shahriyar achieved world fame.
In June 2016, Mammadyarov won the 3rd Shamkir Chess Tournament,
the Vugar Gashimov Memorial. He defeated Fabiano Caruana and Anish
Giri in the last two rounds, which put him in a tie-break situation
with Caruana. He defeated Caruana in the tiebreak, thus giving him
tournament victory.
In 2021, Mammadyarov defeated the 13-time world champion, Garry
Kasparov, at the Grand Chess Tour in Zagreb (Croatia).
Teymur Rajabov defeated Kasparov back in 2003. Teymur Rajabov
earned the title of a grandmaster at the age of 14, making him the
second-youngest grandmaster in history at the time.
In 2003, Rajabov gained international attention after beating
the then world No 1 Garry Kasparov in the Linares tournament,
followed by victories over former world champions Viswanathan Anand
and Ruslan Ponomariov all in the same year.
He also won the European Team Chess Championship with Azerbaijan
in 2009, 2013, and 2017. His major individual achievements include
joint first place at the 2008 Elista Grand Prix, the 2017 Geneva
Grand Prix, and the 2019 FIDE World Cup.
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