Nijat Abasov

Nijat Abasov
Full name Nijat Azad oglu Abasov
Country Azerbaijan
Born (1995-05-14) May 14, 1995
Baku, Azerbaijan
Title Grandmaster (2011)
FIDE rating 2627 (October 2018)
Peak rating 2622 (April 2018)
Ranking No. 164 (April 2018)

Nijat Azad oglu Abasov[1] (born May 14, 1995) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. He became an International Master in 2009 and a grandmaster in 2010. He gained his third and final Grandmaster norm in the Azerbaijani Solidarity Day event in late December 2010,[1] in which he placed first.[2]

In November 2015, Abasov won the Cultural Village tournament in Wijk aan Zee to qualify for the 2016 Tata Steel Challengers tournament.[3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Grandmaster title application, FIDE
  2. "Azerbaijani Solidarity Day 2010". Chess-Results.com. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  3. Schulz, André (2015-11-30). "Shipwrecked in the Benoni". ChessBase. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
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