15 Facts About Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shahriyar Hamid oghlu Mammadyarov, known internationally as Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov is a two-time World Junior Champion and was World Rapid Champion in 2013.

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov is a two-time winner at Tal Memorial and Shamkir Chess, as well as the winner of 2018 Biel Chess Festival where he beat reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen.

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov's first chess trainer was his father, who is a former boxer and taught boxing to Shakhriyar for some time.

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov repeated his victory in 2005, becoming the only two-time champion, while achieving a 2953 performance rating after eight rounds.

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

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

In June 2016, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the 3rd Shamkir Chess Tournament, the Vugar Gashimov Memorial.

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov defeated both top seeds Fabiano Caruana and Anish Giri in the last two rounds, which put him in a tiebreak situation with Caruana.

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov defeated Caruana in the tiebreak, thus giving him tournament victory.

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov defeated Carlsen in round 9 with the white pieces of a King's Indian, Fianchetto Variation.

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

In June 2021, Shakhriyar 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.

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

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov played for Azerbaijan at the Chess Olympiads of 2000,2002,2004,2008,2010,2012,2014,2016 and 2018.