He began the day with a defeat against Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov and later held Azerbaijan’s Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and China’s Yangyi Yu to a draw in the eighth and ninth rounds respectively.

Be warned, you'll see one name repeated very often here: Rapid, Open: Sergey Karjakin (2012), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2013), Carlsen (2014), Carlsen (2015), Vasyl Ivanchuk (2016), Viswanathan Anand ...

Among Azerbaijani male competitors, Shakhriyar Mammadyarov and Vasif Durarbayli made notable performances, each scoring 3.5 points and ranking 17th and 24th, respectively. Eltaj Safarli is ...

Azerbaijani chess team will participate in FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships, Azernews reports. The national team includes Shakhriyar Mammadyarov, Eltaj Safarli, Aydin Suleymanli, Vasif ...

Hot on the heels of the FIDE World Championship that saw Dommaraju Gukesh crowned (classical) chess champion of the world comes FIDE's World Championship for the two faster versions of the sport: ...

The national team includes Shakhriyar Mammadyarov, Eltaj Safarli, Aydin Suleymanli, Vasif Durarbayli, Mammad Muradli, Vugar Rasulov, Riad Samadov, Vugar Manafov, Gunay Mammadzade, Gulnar Mammadova ...

Hot on the heels of the FIDE World Championship that saw Dommaraju Gukesh crowned (classical) chess champion of the world comes FIDE's World Championship for the two faster versions of the sport: ...