Namig Guliyev ( az, Namiq Quliyev; born 13 February 1974) is an

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player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which

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awarded him in 2005.

Career

In 2003 Guliyev came in first at

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. In 2005, he tied for 1st–4th places with Oleg Korneev,

Andrei Sokolov Andrei Yurievich Sokolov (russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Соколо́в; born 20 March 1963, in Vorkuta, Komi ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a chess Grandmaster of Russian origin, now living in France. He was one of the leadi ...

and Azer Mirzoev at

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. In 2009, Guliyev tied for 1st–3rd with

Friso Nijboer Friso Nijboer (born May 26, 1965) is a Dutch chess player. He achieved the title of Grandmaster in 1996. Nijboer won the Vlissingen Chess Tournament in 2002 and 2005, and won the 3rd Nancy Chess Festival in 2005. He participated in six Chess O ...

and

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. In 2010, tied for 1st–3rd with Valentin Panbukchian and

Vladimir Malaniuk Vladimir Pavlovich Malaniuk (; 21 July 1957 –2 July 2017) was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and three-time Ukrainian champion. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship 1998. In team events, Malaniuk played for Ukraine in three Chess O ...

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. In 2012, he won the Open of Plancoët. Guliyev tied for first place with Miguoel Admiraal,

Sergey Fedorchuk Sergey Fedorchuk ( ua, Сергій Федорчук, translit=Serhiy Fedorchuk; born 14 March 1981) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002. Career In 1995 Fedorchuk won the European Youth Chess ...

, Maxime Lagarde and Jules Moussard in the

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in 2019. He played for team Azerbaijan in the

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s of 1994, 2006 and 2016. He has been an active

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streamer since 2020, streaming online chess games.

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