Djakhangir Agaragimov
Djakhangir Agaragimov, 2015
CountryAzerbaijan
Born (1986-12-15) December 15, 1986
TitleGrandmaster (2014)
FIDE rating2502 (December 2023)
Peak rating2502 (February 2014)

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

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

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