Teimour Radjabov
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Teimour Radjabov in 2012
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| Full name | Teymur Rəcəbov |
| Country | Azerbaijan |
| Born |
12 March 1987 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2710 (February 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2793 (November 2012) |
| Ranking | No. 34 (January 2017) |
| Peak ranking | No. 4 (October 2012) |
Teimour Radjabov (also spelled Teymur Rajabov; Azerbaijani: Teymur Rəcəbov; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster.
He has twice competed at the Candidates Tournaments in 2012 and 2013.
Radjabov earned the title of Grandmaster in March 2001 at the age of 14, making him the second-youngest grandmaster in history at the time.
Radjabov was born in Baku to an English language teacher, and a petroleum engineer.
Being the youngest of the participants Radjabov won the European Under 18 Championship, with the six years older Evgeny Postny in second place.
While still being 13 years old the 2483-rated Radjabov finished in second place in Wijk aan Zee B, scoring +6 −2 =3. Mikhail Gurevich (2694) in first place was ½ point ahead and the player to qualify for next year's Wijk aan Zee A.
Radjabov is the second youngest player ever, after Judit Polgar, to make it into the FIDE Top 100 players list. With a rating of 2599 in January 2002 he was ranked 93rd in the world while still 14 years old. In the FIDE Moscow Grand Prix rapid event in June he won matches against Ivanchuk, Svidler, Beliavsky and Akopian before losing the final to Kasparov ½–1½.
In 2003 Radjabov defeated Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, and Ruslan Ponomariov with the black pieces, making him the first player to have beaten three former and reigning FIDE World Chess Champions with black in one year. Hikaru Nakamura repeated the feat in 2011 by beating Ponomariov, Anand and Vladimir Kramnik.
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