GM Nijat Abasov

Nijat Abasov is an Azerbaijani grandmaster and the 2017 Azerbaijani Chess Champion. That year he won the Baku Open tournament, and another notable tournament win came at the 2016 Zurich Christmas Open. Abasov became a GM at the age of 15 and entered the list of the top-100 players in the world in November 2019. He’s number five on the list of highest-ranked players in Azerbaijan (as of August 2023).

At the 2023 FIDE World Cup, Abasov made a surprise run into the semifinals as the 69th seed. Along the way, he defeated IM Rodwell Makoto and GMs Laurent Frissinet, Anish Giri, Peter Svidler, and Vidit Gujrathi.

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