Elmar Məhərrəmov

Elmar Məhərrəmov (born April 10, 1958 in Baku ; often written Elmar Magerramov ) is an Azerbaijani chess player . Məhərrəmov became International Master in 1981 and has been Grand Master since 1992 . He is the chess trainer of the Dubai Chess Club in the United Arab Emirates .

Life

His father was a doctor, his mother a chemist. At the age of 14 he learned to play chess in the Pioneer Palace in Baku. There he met Garry Kasparov , who was five years his junior , and with whom he analyzed a lot in the years that followed . They played several informal competitions under tournament conditions between 1975 and 1982 to practice certain openings . Overall, his record against Kasparov is four wins, seven draws and eight defeats. During his mathematics studies at the university, he worked with Vladimir Bagirov , after which he decided to pursue a career as a professional chess. In 1986 he took second place behind Mikhail Gurevich at a grand master’s tournament in Baku . In the same year he was part of Kasparov's second team in the world championship match against Karpov .

In 1990 he won an international open in Andorra . In 1991 he was in Moscow at the last Soviet individual championship tied second behind the winner Artasches Minassyan , against whom he lost in the tie-break . In 1992 he won the Russian team championship with Saint Petersburg . In 1993 he won the Bad Wörishofen chess festival tied ahead of Bernd Kohlweyer , and in the same year he was Nana Iosseliani's second at the women's world championship. In 1994 he was able to repeat his victory in Bad Wörishofen, this time ahead of Julian Hodgson . He then settled in Dubai and worked there as a chess trainer. One of his students was the country's first grand master, Moussa Taleb . In 2005 and 2006 with a lead and shared in 2007, he won the Open Championship of the United Arab Emirates in Dubai .

His Elo rating is 2515 (as of October 2014). This would put him in 14th place in the Azerbaijani Elo ranking, but he is listed as inactive because he has not played a rated game since the UAE Chess Open, which was held in Fujairah in December 2011 . His highest rating at the World Chess Federation FIDE was 2580 in July 1994.

He is married and has two sons.

literature

• Tibor Károlyi: Genius in the background . Quality Chess, Glasgow 2009. ISBN 978-1-906552-37-4 . Pp. 278-319.

Web links

• Elmar Məhərrəmov at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Elmar Məhərrəmov on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Although his PCA rating was over 2600 in April 1996, see http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic79.html of April 21, 1996, the PCA chess association only existed from 1993 to 1996.