Teimour Radjabov

Teimour Radjabov , born the March 12th 1987 with Bakou (Soviet Union, currently Azerbaïdjan), is one of the whole better players of failures. At October 1st 2007, Radjabov has a Elo of 2742, which makes of it the 8th world player and the Azerbaijani n°2 behind Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.

Since their first meeting at the end of 2004 with Linares, Radjabov and Garry Kasparov have a score of parity: 1 defeat, 1 null profit and 5 each one.

In 2003, with Linares, at 15 years, Radjabov beats Kasparov with the blacks:

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Cc3 Cf6 4. e5 Cfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Cf3 Cc6 7. Fe3 a6 8. Dd2 b5 9. a3 Db6 10. Ce2 c4

11. g4 h5 12. gxh5 Txh5 13. Cg3 Th8 14. f5 exf5 15. Cxf5 Cf6 16. Cg3 Cg4 17. Ff4 Fe6 18. c3 Fe7 19. Cg5 O-O-O 20. Cxe6 fxe6

21. Fe2 Cgxe5 22. De3 Cd7 23. Dxe6 Fh4 24. Dg4 g5 25. Fd2 Tde8 26. O-O-O Ca5 27. Tdf1 Cb3+ 28. Rd1 Fxg3 29. Tf7 Td8 30. Fxg5 Dg6

31. Df5 Dxf5 32. Txf5 Tdf8 33. Txf8+ Cxf8 34. Ff3 Fh4 35. Fe3 Cd7 36. Fxd5 Te8 37. Fh6 Cdc5 38. Ff7 Te7 39. Fh5 Cd3 0-1.

With this victory, it is the first time of the history which a 15 year old player beats a world number 1 at the traditional rate of tournament.

In 2003, it also beat Viswanathan Anand and Ruslan Ponomariov with the blacks.

In February 2006, Teimour beat world champion FIDE Veselin Topalov (2801) with the blacks and then gained the second price of the prestigious Tournoi of Linares.

In 2007, whereas he is only 11th world player, he gains the prestigious tournament of Wijk aan Zee (with equality with Veselin Topalov and Levon Aronian).

In April 2007, it returns in world signal 10 (7th place with a elo with 2747).

Random links: