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Azerbaijani chess players will participate in the European Youth
Chess Championship, Azernews reports. The
championship will take place on August 22-31 in Prague, the Czech
Republic.
A total of 40 chess players including European champions 2023
Rustam Rustamov, Mehriban Ahmadli, Muhammad Kazimzade, bronze
medalist Saadat Bashirli, as well as Pasham Alizade, Lala
Huseynova, Shiroglan Talibov, Tunar Davudov, Zahra Allahverdi,
Ahmad Huseynov and others will represent country at the
tournament.
The European Youth Chess Championship 2024 will be played in 6
age categories: U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18, open and girls
sections separately. Each championship will be played in 9 rounds,
swiss system, with time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds
increment. Chess players from more than 40 countries will
participate in the tournament.
The Winners in each age section will become the European Youth
Chess Champions of the respective age category.
The first three players in each group will be awarded cups and
medals and the first five players in each group will be awarded
cups, diplomas and valuable prizes. Each participant will receive
presents.
The Azerbaijan Chess Federation was founded in 1920. Elman
Rustamov has been president of the National Chess Federation since
2007.
The national chess players have always taken high places at
top-ranked tournaments.
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 Vugar Gashimov Memorial
Shamkir Chess Tournament.
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 a tournament
victory.
In 2021, Mammadyarov defeated the 13-time world champion, Garry
Kasparov, at the Grand Chess Tour in Zagreb, Croatia.
Teymur Rajabov earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14,
making him the second-youngest grandmaster in history at the time.
He defeated Kasparov back in 2003.
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.
Nijat Abasov reached his all-time-highest rating of 2677 and was
ranked No. 3 in Azerbaijan and No. 59 worldwide as of 2023.
In the FIDE World Cup 2023, Abasov found himself face-to-face
with Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as one of the greatest chess
players of all time.
The match between these two chess prodigies was an unforgettable
display of strategic brilliance.
Gulnar Mammadova holds the titles of International Master and
Woman Grandmaster. She won the women's section of the Azerbaijani
Chess Championship in 2021.
In the 2016 Women's Chess Olympiad, Mammadova won the individual
gold medal for the best performance on board 3.
Govhar Beydullayeva has gone down in history as the first woman
grandmaster to become the world champion among 20-year-olds in the
history of Azerbaijani chess.
Beydullayeva drew with Zala Urh (Slovenia) and Laman Hajiyeva
with Livia Jarocka (Poland) at the World Junior Chess Championship
U20. She secured a gold medal in the world championship of under-20
chess players.
Govhar Beydullayeva repeatedly represented Azerbaijan at the
European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess
Championships in different age groups, where she won three medals,
including two silvers.
In 2021, she won a silver medal among women in the Serbia Open
Masters tournament held in Belgrade, Serbia.
Govhar Beydullayeva also participated in the Azerbaijan national
women's chess championships, where she won 4 medals: gold in 2022,
silver in 2020 and 2021, and bronze in 2019.
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Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews' staff journalist, follow her on
Twitter: @lmntypewriterrr
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