Handszar Odeev

{{Short description|Turkmenistani chess grandmaster}}

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|title = Grandmaster (2004)

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Handszar Odeev (born 27 January 1972) is a Turkmen chess grandmaster (2004).

He played a record seven times (first time, at the age of 12) in the Soviet Union Junior Chess Championships: in 1984,{{cite web|url=http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1984/ch_jun84.html|title=33rd USSR Junior Chess Championship, Kirovabad, January 1984|publisher=RusBase|accessdate=27 November 2009}} 1985,{{cite web|url=http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1985/ch_jun85.html|title=34th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Yurmala, January 1985|publisher=RusBase|accessdate=27 November 2009}} 1986,{{cite web|url=http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1986/ch_jun86.html|title=35th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Daugavpils, January 1986|publisher=RusBase|accessdate=27 November 2009}} 1987,{{cite web|url=http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1987/ch_jun87.html|title=36th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Kapsukas, January 1987|publisher=RusBase|accessdate=27 November 2009}} 1988,{{cite web|url=http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1988/ch_jun88.html|title=37th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Ivano-Frankivsk, January 1988|accessdate=27 November 2009}} 1989{{cite web|url=http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1989/ch_jun89.html|title=38th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Pinsk, January 1989|accessdate=27 November 2009}} and 1990.{{cite web|url=http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1990/ch_jun90.html|title=39th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Simferopol, January 1990|publisher=RusBase|accessdate=17 November 2011}} Played for Turkmenistan in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2010{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/ygsyy4sf.html|title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Handszar Odeev|last=Bartelski|first=Wojciech|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=27 November 2009}} and in the Asian Team Chess Championship of 2003.{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersa/ygsyy4sf.html|title=Men's Asian Team Chess Championship: Handszar Odeev|last=Bartelski|first=Wojciech|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=27 November 2009}} In October 1999, he tied for 2nd–10th with Eduardas Rozentalis, Ian Rogers, Vereslav Eingorn, Giorgi Giorgadze, Vlastimil Jansa, Christian Bauer, Konstantin Lerner and Alexander Shabalov in the 5th Wichern-Open tournament in Hamburg, with 30 grandmasters participating.{{cite web|url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic259.html#5|title=TWIC 259: 5th Wichern Open|last=Crowther|first=Mark|date=1999-10-25|publisher=London Chess Center|accessdate=27 November 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930231855/https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic259.html#5|archivedate=30 September 2011}}

In the March 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2405, making him Turkmenistan's number six.