Faiq Hasanov
| Faiq Hasanov | |
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| Full name | Faiq Zülfüqar oğlu Həsənov |
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 Azerbaijan
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| Born |
November 15, 1940 Ganja, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR |
Faiq Hasanov (transliterated as Gasanov; Azerbaijani: Faiq Həsənov; born November 15, 1940 in Ganja, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) is an Azerbaijani chess International Arbiter (1980), coach, television presenter, author and vice-president of Azerbaijan Chess Federation.
The first international tournament that Hasanov refereed took place in Baku in 1964. He also refereed sports contest between the USSR nations.
Hasanov was awarded the title of International Arbiter by FIDE in 1980. He has been in charge of World and European Championships, Olympiads, World Team Chess Championship. He also has been refereeing the tournament in Linaress for twenty years and was the chief arbiter of the first FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Baku. He was a member of the reconstituted Appeal Committee during the World Chess Championship 2006.
Hasanov is widely known as television presenter of weekly Şahmat klubu (Chess Club) programme, which is broadcasting each Sunday in AzTV. He has presenting this programme for 40 years without any major interruptions as programme considered to be one of the longest programmes in the history of AzTV channel.
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