Farid Abbasov

Fərid Abbasov ( the World Chess Federation FIDE Farid Abbasov, born January 31, 1979 in Baku ) is an Azerbaijani chess player and coach.

Life

Since 1998 he is coach of the Azerbaijani national youth team. The deeply religious chess player propagates the membership Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan and sells chess software.

Chess club he plays in Iran for Tidewater Hormozgan, with whom in 2005 he was Iranian team champion. In Turkey, he plays for Konyaspor.

Achievements

In the Under-18 European Championship 1997 in Tallinn, he took second place. The Azerbaijani Individual Championship he won in Baku in 2001. In 2006 he won the Mevlana Chess Festival in Konya. In 2007 he won the 15th Chess Tournament in Troy, Canakkale, together with Jan Timman Delta Lift tournament in Laholm, a rapid chess event, and the Rohde- 7 Open in Sautron at Nantes. In 2008 he won the International Chess Open of La Fere and the Jubilee Open to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the chess club l' Echiquier Nîmois from Nîmes. In the Azerbaijani Individual Championship 2009, he was runner-up.

He became an International Master in 2001, since June 2007, it bears the grandmaster title. The standards for the GM title, he scored at the international tournament of Alushta in June 2004 as well as at the international tournament of Tula in February 2007.