Djakhangir Agaragimov

Djakhangir Agaragimov (born December 15, 1986), in Azerbaijani Cahangir Ağarəhimov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.

Djakhangir Agaragimov
CountryAzerbaijan
Born (1986-12-15) December 15, 1986
TitleGrandmaster (2014)
FIDE rating2502 (February 2021)
Peak rating2502 (February 2014)

Agaragimov visited secondary school #258 in Baku and studied at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics. He trains chess together with Eltaj Safarli.[1]

He holds the Grandmaster title since February 2014,[2] fulfilling norms at the Baku Open in August 2010, where he won against the Grandmasters Natalia Zhukova and Davit Jojua amongst others, and at a double-round rating tournament in Alushta in June 2013.[3] He is one of the few chess players who became Grandmaster without holding the title International Master before.[4]

As a chess player he is inactive. His last tournament was a tournament in Rustavi in January 2014.

He was Operating Director at the Chess World Cup 2015 in Baku.[5]

Publications
  • Pearls of Azerbaijan, by Vladimir Bagirov (chief editor), Niepołomice, Chess Evolution, 2016, ISBN 978-83-944290-8-9.

References
  1. Interview with Eltaj Safarli by Alexander Ipatov
  2. Grandmaster application
  3. Alushta Summer 2013 in The Week in Chess #972 from 24th June 2013
  4. FIDE rating card of Djakhangir Agaragimov
  5. "Page for the Organisers of the Chess World Cup 2015". Archived from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
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