Gashimov will be the best player from Azerbaijan of the January 2010 FIDE rating list
Vugar Gashimov was voted number seven among the best sports people of Azerbaijan for 2009. In the annual awards by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Gashimov was the only chess player to find a place among the top 10.
Vugar Gashimov is going to be the highest rated player of Azerbaijan at the January FIDE rating list. According to the live rating list he is with 2758 ELO points, at position N7, three points behind the WOrld Cup winner Boris Gelfand. From the country list Mamedyarov is 11th with 2741, while Radjabov is 16th with 2733.
The first competition for 2010 for Gashimov will be the World Team Chess Championship, where he will be on board 1 for the national team of Azerbaijan for the first time of his life. Among the important competitions in the calendar of Gashimov is the final FIDE Grand Prix, which will be the last train for the FIDE candidate matches. Before that Gashimov has confirmed his participation in Linares 2010 as well.
Gashimov shared with Tima Tushiev from Extratime.az, "If the first tournament, the World Team Chess Championship is successful for me on board 1, then the whole year will be also. This trend was observed in previous years as well. Now that we are the European Team Champions, this event has a special meaning to us." Gashimov added, "Naturally Topalov will not disclose his full repertoire during Linares 2010, but he has a vast opening knowledge and will play to the maximum. I still have not played against him. Levon Aronian needs no introduction, he is winning practically every tournament . Back in 2002 I played him and won twice in classic chess, while in Sochi we finihed draw. Regarding the latter the winner of Linares, Alexander Grischuk, it seems to me that his play is not stable, but lately he managed to find his game.
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