Rauf Mamedov

Rauf Məmmədov (or Mamedov; born April 26, 1988 in Baku ) is an Azerbaijani chess player.

International Master he was in 2003, Grand Master he is since 2004. In August 2004, he was in Urgup U16 European Champion. Three times he won the Azerbaijani Individual Championship: in March 2006, January 2007 and January 2008, all three championships were held in Baku..

For the Azerbaijani national team he participated in six chess Olympiads: 2004, 2006 and 2008 on the first reserve board in 2010 on the third and on the fourth board in 2012 with a total score of 16, = 17, -9. In two European Team Championships, 2007 and 2009, he also played on each reserve board. He had it a score of 3 = 5 -0. 2007 Azerbaijan achieved the third place, the European Team Championship 2009 was won. 2013 in Warsaw, the team was again European Champion, this time with Rauf Məmmədov on the fourth board. In the World Team Championship in 2010, he played on the first reserve board and had a score of 1, = 4, -1. Chess club he plays regularly on board one for Eczacıbaşı Istanbul in Turkish leagues, as of 2008 in Spain for Servigar Binissalem and from 2009 for Alkaloid Skopje in the Macedonian first league. At the European Club Cup 2010, he played for SOCAR Azerbaijan.

His current and previous highest Elo rating is 2667 (as of March 2011), so it is on the fourth place in the Azerbaijani Elo ranking. On the ICC server he had on 1 December 2006, a flash rating of 3564th