{"id":10057,"date":"2023-02-15T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=10057"},"modified":"2023-10-25T11:38:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T11:38:44","slug":"azerbaijan-womens-championship-govhar-beydullayeva-defends-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/azerbaijan-womens-championship-govhar-beydullayeva-defends-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan Women’s Championship: Govhar Beydullayeva defends title"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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WGM\u00a0Govhar Beydullayeva<\/strong>\u00a0(pictured above) emerged as the 2023 Azerbaijan Women’s Championship winner, successfully defending her title.<\/p>

The Azerbaijan Women’s Championship took place in Baku from February 03-14, 2023, with 11 participants competing in a round-robin.<\/p>

After a discouraging start \u2013 the defending champion fell to WGM\u00a0Khanim Balajayeva<\/strong>\u00a0(pictured below) in the first-round encounter \u2013 Govhar reeled off five straight wins and joined the leaders. In the end, it all came down to the final round, to which Beydullayeva and Balajayeva headed, sharing the top position.<\/p>

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Govhar scored a crucial victory over\u00a0Turkan Mamedjarova<\/strong>\u00a0and lifted the trophy as her main competitor managed only a draw against Narmin Abdinova and had to settle for silver. Khanim Balajayeva became the only player to defeat the champion and complete the tournament unbeaten.<\/p>

Despite losing three games,\u00a0Sabina Ibrahimova<\/strong>\u00a0netted 6.5\/10 and finished third.<\/p>

Final standings<\/strong>:<\/p>

1<\/p><\/td>

WGM<\/p><\/td>

Beydullayeva, Govhar<\/a><\/p><\/td>

2387<\/p><\/td>

7\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2<\/p><\/td>

WGM<\/p><\/td>

Balajayeva, Khanim<\/a><\/p><\/td>

2379<\/p><\/td>

7<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

3<\/p><\/td>

WIM<\/p><\/td>

Ibrahimova, Sabina<\/a><\/p><\/td>

2174<\/p><\/td>

6\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

4<\/p><\/td>

\u00a0<\/td>

Abdinova, Narmin<\/a><\/p><\/td>

1932<\/p><\/td>

6<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

5<\/p><\/td>

WGM<\/p><\/td>

Abdulla, Khayala<\/a><\/p><\/td>

2220<\/p><\/td>

5\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

6<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Mammadova, Gulnar<\/a><\/p><\/td>

2376<\/p><\/td>

5\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

7<\/p><\/td>

WFM<\/p><\/td>

Allahverdiyeva, Ayan<\/a><\/p><\/td>

2060<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

8<\/p><\/td>

WGM<\/p><\/td>

Mamedjarova, Turkan<\/a><\/p><\/td>

2244<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

9<\/p><\/td>

WFM<\/p><\/td>

Hajiyeva, Laman<\/a><\/p><\/td>

2135<\/p><\/td>

3\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10<\/p><\/td>

WGM<\/p><\/td>

Mamedjarova, Zeinab<\/a><\/p><\/td>

2249<\/p><\/td>

2<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

11<\/p><\/td>

\u00a0<\/td>

Nuriyeva, Nurtan<\/a><\/p><\/td>

1809<\/p><\/td>

1\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>


Photo: Ceyhun Zeynalov<\/p>

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WGM\u00a0Govhar Beydullayeva\u00a0(pictured above) emerged as the 2023 Azerbaijan Women’s Championship winner, successfully defending her title. The Azerbaijan Women’s Championship took place in Baku from February 03-14, 2023, with 11 participants competing in a round-robin. After a discouraging start \u2013 the defending champion fell to WGM\u00a0Khanim Balajayeva\u00a0(pictured below) in the first-round encounter \u2013 Govhar reeled off five straight wins and joined the leaders. In the end, it all came down to the final round, to which Beydullayeva and Balajayeva headed, sharing the top position. Govhar scored a crucial victory over\u00a0Turkan Mamedjarova\u00a0and lifted the trophy as her main competitor managed only a draw against Narmin Abdinova and had to settle for silver. Khanim Balajayeva became the only player to defeat the champion and complete the tournament unbeaten. Despite losing three games,\u00a0Sabina Ibrahimova\u00a0netted 6.5\/10 and finished third. Final standings: 1 WGM Beydullayeva, Govhar 2387 7\u00bd 2 WGM Balajayeva, Khanim 2379 7 3 WIM Ibrahimova, Sabina 2174 6\u00bd 4 \u00a0 Abdinova, Narmin 1932 6 5 WGM Abdulla, Khayala 2220 5\u00bd 6 IM Mammadova, Gulnar 2376 5\u00bd 7 WFM Allahverdiyeva, Ayan 2060 5 8 WGM Mamedjarova, Turkan 2244 5 9 WFM Hajiyeva, Laman 2135 3\u00bd 10 WGM Mamedjarova, Zeinab 2249 2 11 \u00a0 Nuriyeva, Nurtan 1809 1\u00bd Photo: Ceyhun Zeynalov Official website:\u00a0asf.org.az\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[237,49],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-10057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-azerbaijan","tag-national-championships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10062,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057\/revisions\/10062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10057"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=10057"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=10057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}