Vugar Asadli is a well-known Azerbaijani chess player, awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE, the international chess federation. He was born on April 21, 1998, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Asadli's early chess career highlights his prowess in youth and junior events. He won the U10 European Youth Chess Championship in 2008 and was the runner-up a year later. He triumphed in the U16 World Youth Chess Championship in 2014.
In 2016, Asadli secured a shared first place in the Nakhchivan Open, an annual chess tournament held in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Following this, he won the 2017 Riga Technical University Open, where he pulled level on points with two other contestants, only to emerge a winner based on technical ratings. He participated in the European Chess Club Cup twice in 2017 and 2019, representing the Odlar Yurdu chess club.
At the 2021 European Individual Chess Championship in Reykjavik, Asadli won the tournament, where he scored 8.5/11, finishing ahead of 36 other Grandmasters and securing a spot for himself in the 2022 Chess World Cup.
In his Olympiad debut representing Azerbaijan in the 2020 Online Chess Olympiad, Asadli scored 7/8, with the team ranking fifth overall.