GMVasif Durarbayli

Vasif Durarbayli was born in Sumqayit in 1992 and began playing chess in 1999. He won the world under-14 championship in 2006 and the European under-18 title in 2010. He became an international master in 2007 and a grandmaster in 2010. After studying sports instruction in Baku, he studied economics at Webster University in Missouri and served as student-government president. He won the St. Louis Summer Classic’s A group in 2018. At the 2021 World Cup, he defeated Alexandr Predke, David Navara and Nodirbek Abdusattorov to reach the fifth round. He also won the Azerbaijani championship in 2021.