Nidjat Mamedov | |
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Country | Azerbaijan |
Born | Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union | April 2, 1985
Title | Grandmaster (2006) |
FIDE rating | 2582 (June 2024) |
Peak rating | 2624 (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.
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]