Vasif Durarbayli
Vasif Durarbayli (; born February 24, 1992) is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster. He received the International Master title in 2007 and the Grandmaster Title in 2010. Academic career. Vasif received his high school degree in Sumqait, Azerbaijan and graduated from Azerbaijan State of Physical Culture and Sports Academy in Baku, Azerbaijan with a degree in sports instruction. He currently studies Economics at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, and serves as the President of the Student Government Association. Chess career. He started his chess career in 1999. He has won many national titles. He was second in the European  Youth Chess Championship under 14 years old (Budva, Serbia) in 2006 and he won the World Youth Chess Championship under 14 years old (Batumi, Georgia). He won the European Youth Chess Championship under 18 years old (Batumi, Georgia) in 2010. In 2013 he lost to Anton Korobov at the World Cup in the first round. In 2015 he entered the World Cup as an organizer nominee, but was eliminated in the first round by Lê Quang Liêm. In 2018 he won the Summer Chess Classic - Group A held in St. Louis. In 2019, he won 2nd place in the Sunway  Sitges Festival after winning the tiebreaks with Rasmus Svane. He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2021 where, ranked 93rd, he defeated Dmitry V. Sklyarov 1.5-0.5 in the first round, 36th-seed Alexandr Predke 3-1 in the second round, 29th-seed David Navara 1.5-0.5 in the third round and Nodirbek Abdusattorov 4-2 in the fourth round. In 2021 he won the Azerbaijani championship in Nakhchivan.