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Born 26 April 1988 FIDE rating 2655 (May 2016)

Rauf Mammadov is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Mamedov started playing chess at the age of seven. In 2004, he became a Grandmaster (GM), following his victory during international tournament in Dubai. He is a three-time champion of Azerbaijan (2006, 2008, 2015).

Mammadov won the Corsica Masters blitz tournament in 2011. In 2015 Mammadov won the European Blitz Chess Championship in Minsk.