Evgeny Bareev

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Evgeny Bareev (b. 21 November 1966) is a Russian chess Grandmaster. He once reached the #3 position in the world, behind Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, and, as recently as October 2003, was in fourth place in the world rankings, with an ELO rating of 2739. In the October 2006 FIDE list, he was number twenty-four in the world, and had an ELO rating of 2683.

Bareev was World Under-16 Champion in 1982 when his talent was first showcased internationally. His most notable participation on the World Championship events was in Dortmund 2002, where he eventually lost in the semi-final match to Veselin Topalov, current FIDE world champion. He was a second to Vladimir Kramnik in his triumphant World Championship match against Garry Kasparov in 2000.

Bareev was a member of the Russian national team in the two Chess Olympiads of 1994 and 1996. The biggest success in his career was winning the Corus super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee 2002. In this event he scored 9/13 ahead of elite players like Alexander Grischuk, Michael Adams, Alexander Morozevich, and Peter Leko. In a man vs. machine contest in January 2003, Bareev took on the chess program HIARCS in a four game-match: all four games were drawn. In the Enghien-les-Bains tournament held in France in 2003, Bareev finished in first place.