Rauf Mamedov

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Rauf Mamedov
CountryAzerbaijan
Born (1988-04-26) 26 April 1988 (age 36)
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (2004)
FIDE rating2651 (April 2024)
Peak rating2709 (December 2017)
RankingNo. 85 (April 2024)
Peak rankingNo. 33 (May 2018)

Rauf Mamedov (

FIDE World Cup
in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2015.

Career

Born in

FIDE World Cup
in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2015.

In 2009, he tied for 1st-3rd with Yuriy Kuzubov and Dmitry Andreikin in the category 16 SPICE Cup tournament at Lubbock, Texas.[1] Mamedov won the Corsica Masters blitz tournament in 2011.[2] In 2015 Mamedov won the European Blitz Chess Championship in Minsk.[3] In 2016, he won the men's blitz chess event of the IMSA Elite Mind Games in Huai'an, China.[4]

In February 2018, he participated in the Aeroflot Open. He finished tenth out of ninety-two,[5] scoring 6/9 (+5–2=2).[6]

In April 2018, he participated in the fifth edition of Shamkir Chess, finishing ninth with a score of 4/9 (+0–1=8).[7]

Team competitions

He played in the gold medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the European Team Chess Championship in 2009,[8][9] 2013 and 2017. He produced the best board 4 performance of the tournament in 2017, scoring 8/9 for a 2920 performance rating.[10]

Personal life

Rauf Mamedov is married to Ukrainian international master Nataliya Buksa.[11]

Gallery

References

  1. ^ "Archive. Tournament report November 2009: Spice Cup 2009 - Group A". FIDE. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
  2. ^ Рауф Мамедов стал победителем блиц-турнира во Франции (in Russian). Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Rauf Mamedov wins European Blitz Championship 2015". FIDE. 18 December 2015. Archived from the original on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Mamedov and Lagno win gold medals in IMSA Elite Mind Games Blitz". Chessdom. 2016-03-02. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  5. ^ Staff writer(s) (28 February 2018). "Aeroflot Open 2018 A". Chess Results.
  6. ^ Staff writer(s) (28 February 2018). "Aeroflot Open 2018 A: Mamedov Rauf". Chess Results.
  7. ^ Staff writer(s) (28 April 2018). "Results: Cross Table". Shamkir Chess.
  8. ^ Edward Scimia (2 November 2009). "Azerbaijan Takes Gold in European Team Championship". Archived from the original on 10 November 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
  9. ^ "Gold for Azerbaijan and Russia in Novi Sad". 31 October 2009. Archived from the original on 6 February 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
  10. ^ Staff writer(s) (6 November 2017). "European Team Chess Championship 2017 Open Section: The best players per board". Chess Results.
  11. ^ ""Только с тобой". Рауф Мамедов спел Наталье Буксе на их свадьбе". chess-news.ru (in Russian). 2018-11-20. Retrieved 2018-12-26.

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