Djakhangir Agaragimov

Djakhangir Agaragimov
Country Azerbaijan
Born (1986-12-15) December 15, 1986
Title Grandmaster (2014)
FIDE rating 2502 (October 2018)
Peak rating 2502 (February 2014)

Djakhangir Agaragimov (born December 15, 1986), in Azerbaijani Cahangir Ağarəhimov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.

Agaragimov visited secondary school #258 in Baku and studied at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics. He trains chess together with Eltaj Safarli.[1]

He holds the Grandmaster title since February 2014,[2] fulfilling norms at the Baku Open in August 2010, where he won against the Grandmasters Natalia Zhukova and Davit Jojua amongst others, and at a double-round rating tournament in Alushta in June 2013.[3] He is one of the few chess players who became Grandmaster without holding the title International Master before.[4]

He was Operating Director at the Chess World Cup 2015 in Baku.[5]

Publications

  • Pearls of Azerbaijan, by Vladimir Bagirov (chief editor), Niepołomice, Chess Evolution, 2016, ISBN 978-83-944290-8-9.

Notes

  1. ↑ Interview with Eltaj Safarli by Alexander Ipatov
  2. ↑ Grandmaster application
  3. ↑ Alushta Summer 2013 in The Week in Chess #972 from 24th June 2013
  4. ↑ FIDE rating card of Djakhangir Agaragimov
  5. ↑ Page for the Organisers of the Chess World Cup 2015
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