Rauf Mamedov is an Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani people

The Azerbaijanis are a Turkic-speaking people living mainly in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as in the neighbourhood states, Georgia, Russia and formerly Armenia. Commonly referred to as Azeris or Azerbaijani Turks , they also live in a wider area from the Caucasus to...

 chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster.

Career

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Mamedov started playing chess at the age of seven. In 2004, he became a Grandmaster (GM), following his victory during international tournament in Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

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Team competitions

He played in the gold medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the European Team Chess Championship in Novi Sad

Novi Sad

Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....

 in 2009, alongside Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mammadyarov , also known for his Shah nickname, is a chess Grandmaster. On the September 2010 FIDE rating list he was ranked number nine in the world with an Elo rating of 2756....

, Teimour Radjabov

Teimour Radjabov

Radjabov's knight sacrifice, 21. ... Ngxe5, was praised by several strong players for its bravery, including English grandmaster Nigel Short. Said Short of the move, "Radjabov plays very imaginatively... he just won't give up, he is extremely tenacious and will always find a way to muddy the...

, Vugar Gashimov

Vugar Gashimov

Vugar Gashimov , born July 24, 1986 in Baku, is one of the leading chess players from Azerbaijan. He is a noted player of Bullet chess and three times Azerbaijani national chess champion .He won at Athens 2005 ....

 and Gadir Guseinov, previously winning bronze medal in 2007.

Notable tournament victories

• Winner of Corsica Masters 2011, blitz tournament
• In 2009, he tied for 1st-3rd with Yuriy Kuzubov
  Yuriy Kuzubov
  Yuriy Kuzubov , is one of the youngest International Grandmasters in the history of chess. As of April 2008, his rating was 2603. He completed his final grandmaster norm at age 14 years, 7 months, 12 days in 2004...
  
   and Dmitry Andreikin
  Dmitry Andreikin
  Dmitry Andreikin is a Russian chess grandmaster . He won the 2010 World Junior Chess Championship.-Chess career:He tied for 1st–3rd with Konstantin Chernyshov and Alexei Kornev at Lipetsk 2006...
  
   in a category 16 tournament at Lubbock, Texas
  Lubbock, Texas
  Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University...
  
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• Winner of Azerbaijan Chess Championship two times (2006, 2008)

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