Nidjat Mamedov


Nidjat Mamedov is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster and national champion in 2011.
He won the European under-14 chess championship in 1999. In 2007 Mamedov tied for first with Mircea Parligras in the 11th Open International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee winning the tournament on tiebreak. He tied for first with Vadim Malakhatko and Valeriy Neverov in the 2007/08 Hastings International Chess Congress. In 2008 he tied for 4–8th with Tamaz Gelashvili, Anton Filippov, Constantin Lupulescu and Alexander Zubarev in the Open Romgaz Tournament in Bucharest. In June 2013, Mamedov won the Teplice Open in Czech Republic.
He played for Azerbaijan in the 2000 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey and in the World Team Chess Championships of 2010 and 2013.