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Eltaj Safarli, Chess World Cup 2013
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Full name | Eltac Səfərli |
Country | Azerbaijan |
Born |
Baku, Azerbaijan |
May 18, 1992
Title | Grandmaster (2008) |
FIDE rating | 2680 (April 2017) |
Peak rating | 2694 (October 2016) |
Eltaj Safarli (Azerbaijani: Eltac Səfərli; born 18 May 1992 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster.
Safarli won the Azerbaijan Championships in 2010 and 2016.
He won the under 10 World Youth Chess Championship in Heraklion in 2002.
Safarli played in the silver medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the European Team Chess Championship in Porto Carras in 2011, alongside Shahriyar Mammadyarov, Teimour Radjabov, Vugar Gashimov and Qadir Huseynov, previously winning bronze medal in 2007 and gold in 2009.