Djakhangir Agaragimov

Djakhangir Agaragimov (born December 15, 1986), in Azerbaijani Cahangir Ağarəhimov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.

Agaragimov visited secondary school #258 in Baku and studied at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics. He trains chess together with Eltaj Safarli.

He holds the Grandmaster title since February 2014, fulfilling norms at the Baku Open in August 2010, where he managed to win against the Grandmasters Natalia Zhukova and Davit Jojua amongst others, and at a double-round rating tournament in Alushta in June 2013. He is one of the few chess players who managed to become Grandmaster without holding the title International Master before.

He was Operating Director at the Chess World Cup 2015 in Baku.