Vugar Gashimov

Vugar Gashimov (24 July 1986 – 11 January 2014); Умер трехкратный чемпион Азербайджана по шахматам Вугар Гашимов  was a leading chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan who died from a brain tumour.

Gashimov was a noted player of bullet chess (2/3 minutes a side), and three times Azerbaijani national chess champion (1995, 1996 and 1998).
He won at Athens 2005 (Acropolis International). He was a two-times winner of the huge Cappelle-la-Grande Open: in 2007 and 2008 (with other players).

 Team competitions 
Gashimov played for Azerbaijan in the Chess Olympiads of 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.OlimpBase  Men's Chess Olympiads  Vugar Gashimov He played in the gold medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the European Team Chess Championship in Novi Sad in 2009, alongside Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Teimour Radjabov, Rauf Mammadov and Gadir Guseinov. He won the bronze medal in 2007.Сборная Азербайджана стала чемпионом Европы по шахматам  

 Death 
Gashimov was treated for a brain tumor in a hospital in Heidelberg, Germany, and died on the night of 11 January 2014.Vüqar Həşimov vəfat etdi. apasport.az, 11 January 2014Умер трехкратный чемпион Азербайджана по шахматам Вугар Гашимов 

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Category:Azerbaijani chess players
Category:Cancer deaths in Germany
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Category:Chess grandmasters
Category:21st-century Azerbaijani people