Alexei Barsov
{{short description|Uzbekistani chess grandmaster (born 1966)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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|birth_place = Samarkand, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
|title = Grandmaster (2000)
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Alexei Barsov (born 3 April 1966) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster.
Chess career
Barsov, lawyer by education, has been a professional chess player since the early 1990s, and is one of the premier players in Uzbekistan. For some years he was the coach of the former FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov.
He won the Zeeland Open in Vlissingen in 1995.[http://www.hztoernooi.nl/index.php/en/winners Winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216220341/http://www.hztoernooi.nl/index.php/en/winners |date=2016-02-16 }}. HZ Toernooi. Barsov's victories in Oxford (1998) and York (1999, together with Tiger Hillarp Persson and Julian Hodgson) rate among his most prominent successes in international chess tournaments. In 2001 he won the Hastings International Chess Congress together with Harikrishna and Sasikiran. Barsov competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, losing in the first round to Alexander Beliavsky. He won a tournament in Saint-Quentin 2004, and Casablanca 2005. Barsov won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 2006 and 2010. In 2011, he came first in the 4th Beirut Open tournament.{{cite web|url=http://chess-results.com/tnr50317.aspx?art=1&lan=1&wi=1000|title=Beirut 4th International Open Chess Championship 2011|date=2011-05-22|publisher=Chess-Results.com|accessdate=24 May 2011}} In the following year, Barsov tied for first place with Semetey Tologontegin at the 2nd Central Asia Chess Cup in Bishkek[https://ratings.fide.com/view_source.phtml?code=69928 2st (sic) Central Asia Chess Cup Original Tournament Report] FIDE. Retrieved 8 December 2015 winning the tournament on tiebreak score.{{cite news|title=Сборная Кыргызстана заняла 2 командное место на Кубке Центральной Азии по шахматам на Иссык-Куле|url=https://sport.akipress.org/news:81451/|accessdate=13 February 2016|agency=Sport AKIpress|date=2012-06-21|language=Russian}}
Barsov represented Uzbekistan at the Chess Olympiads in Istanbul 2000, Calvià 2004, Turin 2006, Dresden 2008 and Khanty-Mansiysk 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/1lv7vtre.html|title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Alexei Barsov|last=Bartelski|first=Wojciech|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=2009-07-08}} He has played for several European chess clubs, including the ones competing in the German Chess Bundesliga.
Notable games
- [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1242342, Alexei Barsov vs Zhong Zhang, Premier 2001, Nimzo-Indian Defense: Three Knights Variation (E21), 1-0]
- [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1242373, Peter K Wells vs Alexei Barsov, Premier 2002, English Opening: Agincourt Defense (A13), 0-1]
References
External links
- {{FIDE}}
- [https://www.365chess.com/players/Alexei_Barsov Alexei Barsov] chess games at 365Chess.com
- {{chessgames player|id=39734}}
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Category:Chess Olympiad competitors
Category:Chess players at the 2006 Asian Games
Category:Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games
Category:21st-century Uzbekistani chess players
Category:Asian Games competitors for Uzbekistan
Category:Sportspeople from Samarkand
Category:Samarkand State University alumni
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