Nidjat Mamedov

Nidjat Mamedov
Barcelona 2010
CountryAzerbaijan
Born (1985-04-02) April 2, 1985 (age 39)
Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (2006)
FIDE rating2582 (November 2024)
Peak rating2624 (January 2014)

Nidjat Mamedov (Azerbaijani: Nicat Məmmədov; born 2 April 1985) is an Azerbaijani chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006.

Career

He won the U14 section of European Youth Chess Championships in 1999.[1] In 2007 Mamedov tied for first place with Mircea Pârligras in the 11th Open International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee winning the tournament on tiebreak.[2] He tied for first with Vadim Malakhatko and Valeriy Neverov in the 2007/08 Hastings International Chess Congress.[3] In 2008 he tied for 4–8th with Tamaz Gelashvili, Anton Filippov, Constantin Lupulescu and Alexander Zubarev in the Romgaz Open tournament in Bucharest.[4] In 2010 in Baku he got second place at the Azerbaijani Chess Championship.[5] Mamedov won the Azerbaijani championship in 2011.[6] In June 2013, he won the Teplice Open in Czech Republic. [7] In 2018 Mamedov won the Nakhchivan Open, edging out Sergei Tiviakov on tiebreak score.[8]

He played for Azerbaijan in the 2000 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey and in the World Team Chess Championships of 2010 and 2013.[9]

References

  1. ^ Crowther, Mark (13 September 1999). "TWIC 253: European Youth Championships". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Nidjat Mamedov gewinnt in Bad Wiessee" (in German). ChessBase. 19 November 2007. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  3. ^ Crowther, Mark (7 January 2008). "TWIC 687: 83rd Hastings International Congress". London Chess Center. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
  4. ^ Crowther, Mark (22 September 2008). "TWIC 724: II ROMGAZ Open". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  5. ^ Championship of Azerbaijan, men, 2010, chessresults.com
  6. ^ Crowther, Mark (14 February 2011). "TWIC 849: Azerbaijan Championships 2011". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Eight Players Share First in Teplice Open". Chessdom. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  8. ^ "Nidjat Mamedov wins Nakhchivan Open 2018". Chessdom. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  9. ^ Nidjat Mamedov team chess record at OlimpBase.org


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