Mamedyarov is my friend actually. i like chess, i used to go to chess when i was kid but later we moved and coudlnt continue.. We had a very strong player too but he died from cancer, i forgot his name. these 3 used to play together from our country name..
Nice! thats cool you are buds with him hah. He is one of the guys I would love to meet and shake his hand, he has produced some excellent chess and is very nice personality too.
The top Chess guys I have chatted with at some length online are GM Atalik (Turkey), GM Svidler (Russia) and GM Nakamura (US)....I actually got pretty friendly with GM Atalik, he told me lot of interesting things about Turkey and the part of Istanbul he grew up in.
Lately I have no time for chess at all, online or otherwise heh....but it was fun some time back when I had more time and interest and made some good buds at all levels. I got to about 2000 ELO rating, but it would take lot of time and commitment to progress more, which I don't have.
You buddy (Mamedyarov) was the one that carried AZ flag up high in chess field for quite a long stretch when radjabov was more muted in results.
The 3rd you are thinking of is Gashimov, he died in 2014 like you say. Very sad, he was very young, talented guy (esp at Blitz).
Azerbaijan renamed its yearly world tourney (Shamkir) as
Gashimov memorial in his honour and memory.
( the problem is from our government and not the company). I don't know why we are rushing to take the Chinese vaccine.
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