Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Explained

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Birth Name:Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov
Country:Azerbaijan
Birth Date:12 April 1985
Birth Place:Sumgait, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Grandmaster (2002)
Peakrating:2820 (September 2018)
Ranking:No. 7 (May 2022)
Peakranking:No. 2 (February 2018)
Fideid:13401319

Shahriyar Hamid oghlu Mammadyarov (Azerbaijani: Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov; born 12 April 1985), known internationally as Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. he is Azerbaijan's highest rated chess player. His personal best rating of 2820 makes him the sixth-highest-rated player in chess history.

Mamedyarov has competed in the Candidates Tournament in 2011 (eliminated in quarterfinals), in 2014 (placing fourth) and in 2018 (placing second). He is a two-time World Junior Champion (2003 and 2005) and was World Rapid Champion in 2013.

A gold medalist at the 2012 Chess Olympiad on the third board, he is a three-time European Team Champion (2009, 2013, 2017) with Azerbaijan. He is also a two-time winner at Tal Memorial (2010 joint and 2014 Blitz) and Shamkir Chess (2016 and 2017), as well as the winner of 2018 Biel Chess Festival where he beat reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen.

Personal life

Shakhriyar's parents are from the Zangilan District of Azerbaijan. In 1980, his family moved to the then-flourishing industrial city of Sumqayit, Azerbaijan, where Shakhriyar was born. His first chess trainer was his father, who is also a former boxer and taught boxing to Shakhriyar for some time. Mamedyarov has two sisters, Zeinab Mamedyarova and Turkan Mamedyarova, who are Woman Grandmasters.[1] Mamedyarov got married in 2012,[2] but later divorced. He remarried in July 2017.[3]

Professional chess career

In 2003, Mamedyarov won the World Junior Chess Championship.[4] He repeated his victory in 2005, becoming the only two-time champion, while achieving a 2953 performance rating after eight rounds.[5] This performance earned him an invitation to the Essent Tournament 2006 in Hoogeveen. After winning this and the 2007 edition, Mamedyarov achieved world fame.[6]

In 2005 Mamedyarov competed at the European Club Cup and had the second-highest performance rating (2913), after Vassily Ivanchuk, of all of the participants.

Mamedyarov attained joint first place at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow in February 2006, with a score of 6½/9.[7] In May, he won the combined FiNet/Ordix rapid event.[8] In October 2006, he won the closed Essent Chess Tournament in Hoogeveen with 4½/6, beating Judit Polgár on Sonneborn-Berger tie-breaks.[9]

At the Chess World Cup 2007 Mamedyarov reached the third round where he was knocked out by Ivan Cheparinov.

In 2008, he won the Corsican Circuit rapid knockout.

In 2009, he won the Mainz Ordix Open with 10/11.[10]

In 2010, he tied for first place with Vladimir Kramnik and Gata Kamsky at the President's Cup in Baku,[11] followed by joint first in the Tal Memorial.[12]

In June 2013, Mamedyarov won the World Rapid Chess Championship, scoring 11½/15.[13] The next month he won the Geneva Masters rapid event.[14]

In November 2014, he won the Tal Memorial for the second time.[15]

In June 2016, Mamedyarov won the 3rd Shamkir Chess Tournament, the Vugar Gashimov Memorial. He defeated both top seeds Fabiano Caruana and Anish Giri in the last two rounds, which put him in a tiebreak situation with Caruana. He defeated Caruana in the tiebreak, thus giving him tournament victory.

In April 2017, Mamedyarov won the Vugar Gashimov Memorial for the second year in a row with a score of 5½/9.[16]

In April 2018, he participated in the fifth edition of the Gashimov Memorial, finishing fourth with a score of 4½/9 (+1–1=7).[17]

From 28 May to 7 June 2018, he competed in the sixth edition of Norway Chess, placing seventh with 3½/8 (+0–1=7).[18]

From 22 July 2018 to 1 August, he competed in the 51st Biel Chess Festival, winning the event by one-and-a-half points ahead of Magnus Carlsen.[19] He defeated Carlsen in round 9 with the white pieces of a King's Indian, Fianchetto Variation.[20]

On 14 June 2020, Mamedyarov won Sharjah online Chess tournament with 7.5 points from 10 rounds which is his first online tournament win.[21]

On 26 June 2020, Mamedyarov placed 2nd-6th in the 1st Mukhtar Ismagambetov Memorial along with Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Dmitriy Bocharov, Kazybek Nogerbek, and Davit Maghalashvili, with a score of 8.5/11.[22]

In June 2021, Mamedyarov won Superbet Chess Classic tournament in which Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, Teimour Radjabov and Wesley So participated. [23]

Through February and March 2022, Mamedyarov played in the FIDE Grand Prix 2022. In the second leg, he placed second in Pool D with a 3/6 result. In the third leg, he won his pool with a result of 3.5/6 and a 3/4 result in rapid and blitz tiebreakers against Vincent Keymer.

World Championship cycles

In 2011, Mamedyarov was the tournament organisers' nominee, qualifying him for the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2012,[24] where he lost to Boris Gelfand in the first round.[25]

In the 2014 cycle, he qualified for the Candidates Tournament by coming second in the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13. He finished fourth in the Candidates, with a score of 7/14.

He failed to qualify for the 2016 Candidates. He came sixth in the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15, and was knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Chess World Cup 2015 by eventual winner Sergey Karjakin.

In the 2018 cycle, he qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2018 by winning the FIDE Grand Prix 2017. He finished as a runner-up in Candidates one point behind Caruana, with a score of 8/14.

In the 2020 cycle, he failed to qualify for Candidates, finishing fourth in FIDE Grand Prix 2019, and being knocked out in the Fourth round of Chess World Cup 2019, by Teimour Radjabov.

In the 2022 cycle, he failed to qualify for Candidates, finishing seventh in FIDE Grand Prix 2022, and being knocked out in the Third round of Chess World Cup 2021, by Haik Martirosyan.

Team competitions

Mamedyarov played for Azerbaijan at the Chess Olympiads of 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018.[26] In 2009, 2013 and 2017 he won the team gold medal for Azerbaijan at the European Team Chess Championship, having won the bronze medal in 2007 and silver in 2011.[27] [28]

Tournament victories

Tournament victories by Mamedyarov include:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov's official web-site . Mamedyarov.com . 2011-10-20 . dead . https://archive.today/20120904005927/http://www.mamedyarov.com/ . 2012-09-04 .
  2. Web site: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Got Married (PHOTOS) chess-news.ru. chess-news.ru. 2017-11-27. 2017-12-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201030607/http://chess-news.ru/en/node/9882. live.
  3. Web site: Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov ikinci dəfə evləndi - Toydan eksklüziv FOTO. Sfera.az. 2018-12-06. 2018-12-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20181207045920/http://sfera.az/sehriyar-memmedyarov-ikinci-defe-evlendi-toydan-ekskluziv-foto/. live.
  4. Web site: World Junior Championship: Mamedyarov Earns the Title. 2003-07-03. JeremySilman.com. 7 November 2010. 2010-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20101216122858/http://jeremysilman.com/chess_news/news_0703_0703.html. dead.
  5. Web site: Borg . Geoffrey . Shakhriyar Mamedyarov leads with 2953 performance . ChessBase . 2005-11-18 . 2006-12-24 . 2006-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061214175103/http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2745 . live .
  6. Web site: FIDE Grand Prix Series: Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar. FIDE. 5 December 2010. 2 March 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110302065338/http://grandprix.fide.com/shakhriyar-mamedyarov-2.html. live.
  7. Web site: Aeroflot Open 2006 A1. FIDE. 7 May 2011. 17 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121017125908/http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=35017. live.
  8. News: Chess Classic: Kasimdzhanov wins the Ordix Open. 2006-08-22. Chess News. 2017-11-27. en-US. 2017-12-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201035029/https://en.chessbase.com/post/che-claic-kasimdzhanov-wins-the-ordix-open. live.
  9. Web site: Essent 2006 Mamedyarov, Judit Polgar are the winners. 2006-10-29. ChessBase.com. 13 October 2011. 2006-11-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20061103234725/http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3459. live.
  10. Web site: Chess Classic Mainz 2009 (CCM9) 2009-07-27 - 2009-08-02. www.chesstigers.de. en. 2017-11-27. 2017-12-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040916/http://www.chesstigers.de/ccm9_index_news.php?id=1804&rubrik=6&lang=1&kat=4&PHPSESSID=ad740432c94a6c709140ff71a0e31ed6. dead.
  11. Web site: Kramnik wins President's Cup Baku on tiebreak. 2010-02-05. ChessBase. 2 May 2010. 2010-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20100505130545/http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6299. live.
  12. Web site: Tal Memorial Aronian and Karjakin win the title. 2010-11-14. ChessBase.com. 17 December 2011. 2011-03-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20110303193627/http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6808. live.
  13. Web site: Doggers, Peter . Mamedyarov is the new World Rapid Champion . ChessVibes . 8 June 2013 . 8 June 2013 . 1 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171201035231/http://www.chessvibes.com/mamedyarov-is-the-new-world-rapid-champion . live .
  14. Web site: http://www.azerisport.com/chess/20130630073301402.html. azerisport.com. ru. ru:Мамедъяров выиграл турнир в Женеве (ОБНОВЛЕНО). 30 June 2013. 2 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130702231317/http://azerisport.com/chess/20130630073301402.html. live.
  15. Web site: http://azerisport.com/chess/20141114152308036.html. ru. ru:Мамедъяров выиграл Мемориал Таля. 14 November 2014. 17 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141117053955/http://azerisport.com/chess/20141114152308036.html. live.
  16. News: Mamedyarov Repeats; Wins Shamkir 2nd Year In A Row - Chess.com. (hellokostya). Kostya Kavutskiy. Chess.com. 2017-11-27. en-US. 2021-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20210512032421/https://www.chess.com/news/view/mamedyarov-repeats-wins-shamkir-2nd-year-in-a-row-3927. live.
  17. Web site: Results: Cross Table. Shamkir Chess. Staff writer(s). 28 April 2018. 28 April 2018. 26 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180426234208/http://shamkirchess.com/content/5. live.
  18. Web site: Caruana Wins Norway Chess. Peter. Doggers. Chess.com. 7 June 2018. 7 June 2018. 16 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200516151300/https://www.chess.com/news/view/caruana-wins-altibox-norway-chess-6814. live.
  19. Web site: 51st Biel Chess Festival 2018 | the Week in Chess . 2019-11-29 . 2019-10-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191021154512/https://theweekinchess.com/chessnews/events/51st-biel-chess-festival-2018 . live .
  20. Web site: Biel: Mamedyarov defeats Carlsen and wins it all . August 2018 . 2021-04-25 . 2021-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210425081125/https://en.chessbase.com/post/biel-2018-round-9 . live .
  21. Web site: Mamedyarov Wins Sharjah Online Chess Tournament. 13 June 2020. 14 June 2020. 14 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200614170121/https://chess-results.com/tnr528783.aspx?lan=1. live.
  22. Web site: The Week in Chess 1338. 2020-07-09. theweekinchess.com. 2020-07-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20200702014709/https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic1338.html#13. live.
  23. Web site: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov wins Superbet Chess Classic. 15 June 2021.
  24. Web site: Dates for Candidates Matches 2011. 2010-11-23. FIDE. 11 April 2011. 2011-04-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20110414120451/http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/4890-dates-for-candidates-matches-2011.html. dead.
  25. Web site: Гельфанд стал первым полуфиналистом шахматного турнира в Казани. https://archive.today/20120722030457/http://www.championat.ru/other/_chess/news-806668.html. dead. 22 July 2012. 9 May 2011.
  26. Web site: Wojciech Bartelski . OlimpBase Men's Chess Olympiads Shakhriyar Mamedyarov . Olimpbase.org . 2011-10-20 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180552/http://www.olimpbase.org/players/7bdtzdnm.html . live .
  27. http://www.vesti.az/news.php?id=21641 Вугар Гашимов принес золото сборной Азербайджана
  28. http://day.az/news/sport/179129.html Сборная Азербайджана стала чемпионом Европы по шахматам
  29. https://www.azerisport.com/chess/20220924001032836.html Мамедъяров и Арабидзе выиграли турнир в Шуше
  30. https://www.chess.com/news/view/mamedyarov-wins-superbet-chess-classic#:~:text=GM%20Shakhriyar%20Mamedyarov%20won%20the,against%20GM%20Maxime%20Vachier%2DLagrave. Mamedyarov Wins Superbet Chess Classic
  31. https://www.chess.com/news/view/mamedyarov-beats-carlsen-wins-biel-with-round-to-spare Mamedyarov Beats Carlsen, Wins Biel With Round To Spare
  32. http://en.chessbase.com/post/the-road-to-the-candidates-2018 The road to the Candidates 2018
  33. News: Шахрияр Мамедъяров вновь стал победителем турнира памяти Вугара Гашимова. 2017-04-30. 2017-08-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20170808002222/https://haqqin.az/news/98785. live.
  34. Web site: ru:Мамедъяров выиграл Мемориал Таля. http://azerisport.com/chess/20141114152308036.html. 14 November 2014. ru. 17 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141117053955/http://azerisport.com/chess/20141114152308036.html. live.
  35. Web site: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov is the winner of Beijing FIDE Grand Prix. 16 July 2013. 18 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130718085424/http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7206-shakhriyar-mamedyarov-is-the-winner-of-beijing-fide-grand-prix.html. dead.
  36. Web site: ru:Мамедъяров выиграл турнир в Женеве (ОБНОВЛЕНО). http://www.azerisport.com/chess/20130630073301402.html. azerisport.com. 30 June 2013. ru. 2 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130702231317/http://azerisport.com/chess/20130630073301402.html. live.
  37. Web site: Tal Memorial Aronian and Karjakin win the title. 2010-11-14. ChessBase.com. 17 December 2011. 2011-03-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20110303193627/http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6808. live.
  38. Web site: The Week in Chess: President's Cup Baku 2010. https://archive.today/20120723122349/http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/presidents-cup-baku-2010. dead. 2012-07-23. Crowther. Mark. 2010-05-03. Chess.co.uk. 17 December 2011.
  39. Web site: Achievements of Shah . Mamedyarov.com . 2011-10-20 . 2011-10-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111017075738/http://www.mamedyarov.com/en/show.page.php?guid=7711419f-6859-102d-bc31-c87d1905cefc . dead .
  40. Web site: Mamedyarov and Kasparov win in Corsica. 2008-11-03. ChessBase.com. 17 December 2011. 2011-11-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20111119001804/http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4995. live.
  41. Web site: Essent Kroongroep 2006. FIDE. 7 May 2011. 17 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121017125929/http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=4812. live.
  42. Web site: Chess Classic Kasimdzhanov wins the Ordix Open. 2006-08-22. ChessBase.com. 7 May 2011. 2011-11-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20111118055241/http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3302. live.
  43. Web site: Aeroflot Open 2006 A1. FIDE. 7 May 2011. 17 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121017125908/http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=35017. live.
  44. Web site: Reykjavik Open 2006. 2006-03-20. Chess-Results.com. 7 May 2011. 2011-07-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20110716153642/http://chess-results.com/tnr3219.aspx?art=1&lan=1&turdet=YES&m=-1. live.
  45. Web site: TWIC 601: President's Cup. Crowther. Mark. 2006-05-15. London Chess Center. 7 November 2010.
  46. Web site: Mamedyarov wins Dubai, Carlsen his GM title. 2004-04-29. ChessBase. 7 November 2010. 2011-10-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20111011085756/http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1612. live.
  47. Web site: World Junior Champ. Boys. FIDE. 7 May 2011. 28 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140328022449/http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=25796. live.
  48. Web site: World Junior Championship: Mamedyarov Earns the Title. 2003-07-03. JeremySilman.com. 7 November 2010. 2010-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20101216122858/http://jeremysilman.com/chess_news/news_0703_0703.html. dead.

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