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AZE · 19 yrs · K=10 · Peak 2456 (Jul 2025)

Best performance: 2614 at Azerbaijan Chess Championship, Blitz(Best of 2025)

World #735 live, down 86#649 publishedAzerbaijan #13Europe #402#95 U20 in the worldamong active players

NOV26 Rating

2451

Live Rating

2437.3

Change

-13.7

Games Played

13

How live ratings are calculated

Rating History · Blitz

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Blitz rating 2456 to 2451 over the last 12 months; peak 2456 in July 2025.

Official rating by month

Each month: the rating, its change from the list before, and the rated games FIDE counted.

ListClassicalRapidBlitz
Nov 20262529, +5, 7 games2466, 0, 0 games2451, 0, 0 games
Oct 20262524, 0, 0 games2466, 0, 0 games2451, 0, 0 games
Sep 20262524, +4, 11 games2466, 0, 0 games2451, 0, 0 games
Aug 20262520, 0, 0 games2466, 0, 0 games2451, 0, 0 games
Jul 20262520, 0, 0 games2466, 0, 0 games2451, 0, 0 games
Jun 20262520, 0, 0 games2466, 0, 0 games2451, 0, 0 games
May 20262520, +12, 11 games2466, 0, 0 games2451, 0, 0 games
Apr 20262508, 0, 0 games2466, 0, 0 games2451, 0, 0 games
Mar 20262508, -2, 10 games2466, +13, 4 games2451, 0, 0 games
Feb 20262510, 0, 0 games2453, 0, 0 games2451, 0, 0 games
Jan 20262510, 0, 0 games2453, -16, 22 games2451, -5, 28 games
Dec 20252510, -3, 2 games2469, 0, 0 games2456, 0, 0 games
Working toward the Grandmaster title2 tracked norms · 22/27 gamesrating metcomposition metdetails ↓

Form · Blitz

oldest → latest

Longest unbeaten run in 2026: 6 games, Nov 5.

From 169 blitz games on record, the latest on Nov 6.

Blitz games since the November list

Show gamesTournamentScoreChange
FIDE WORLD JUNIOR BLITZ CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS U20 - OpenNov 5 – Nov 6TPR 23018/13-13.7

Title Progress

GM title progress

Working toward the Grandmaster title

Tracked norms: 2 · 22 of 27 games credit

Rating requirement met (peak 2529, NOV26 list)

No outstanding composition requirement

European Individual CC 2022Apr 20227/11Rp 2625
projectedEuropean Individual Chess Championship 2025Mar 20258/11Rp 2629

Based on events we cover plus the FIDE norm registers of all federations. Norms filed elsewhere may not show up here yet.

Best wins · Blitz

From 163 rated blitz games against rated opponents, 2017–2026

#OpponentRating
1, GM Alexander Grischuk, Jun 2025 · 2025 FIDE World Blitz Team Championship Knockout, 2683
2, GM Aydin Suleymanli, Oct 2024 · Azerbaijan Blitz Chess Championship, 2608
3, GM Tigran L. Petrosian, Dec 2024 · 2024 World Blitz Championship Swiss, 2593

Openings · Blitz

From the moves of 62 of 169 blitz games on record.

As WhiteOpens 1.d4 in 22 of 28 games, 1.Nf3 in 6.

As BlackMeets 1.e4 with 1...c5, and 1.d4 with 1...Nf6.

All openings (3 as White, 1 as Black)
Openings in White gamesGamesScore
Queen's Gambit Declined570%
Grünfeld Defense450%
King's Indian Defense350%

16 more games in openings played fewer than 3 times.

Event timeline · Blitz

19 events

Events before the current rating period show the performance, not a rating change.

Live events show the rating change; earlier events show the performance rating.

Performance rating by year

YearGamesScoreAvg oppTPR
202613822142301
2025392224192462
20242918½24182520
20195434½19222024
2018221218901926

Games count in the month they were played. Each month and year is one performance rating over all of its rated games.

Recent opponents · Blitz

GM Mukhammadzokhid SuyarovGM Erdem KhubukshanovIM Alexander KhripachenkoGM Prraneeth VuppalaFM Mazen. FandiIM Satbek AkhmedinovFM Amanmuhammet HommadovFM Mikhei NavumenkaIM Rafael SharonCM Rashid Husain AlhammadiMohamed Yousuf Al-AliCM Khaled KhalifahMohammed Saeed Alshamsi

Rated near Read Samadov · Blitz

World

  1. #733FM Artem Galaktionov2437.9
  2. #734GM Emin Ohanyan2437.8
  3. #735IM Read Samadov2437.3
  4. #=736IM Niels Ondersteijn2437.0
  5. #=736GM Zaur Mammadov2437.0

Azerbaijan

  1. #11IM Khagan Ahmad2480.0
  2. #12GM Namig Guliyev2474.9
  3. #13IM Read Samadov2437.3
  4. #14GM Zaur Mammadov2437.0
  5. #15FM Rustam Rustamov2434.0

Live rating: FIDE’s November list plus every rated game played since. Not affiliated with FIDE.