His crowning glory came in 2018, when he won the World Rapid Chess Championship in Saint Petersburg by defeating a field of players including world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and ...
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He is also known as a philanthropist, holding chess fundraisers for The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov was born in Azerbaijan in 1985 and learned to play chess when he was ...