Alexei Barsov

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Alexei Barsov
Country Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union Flag of Uzbekistan Uzbekistan
Born April 3, 1966 (1966-04-03) (age 42)
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2480
Peak rating 2550

Alexei Barsov is an Uzbekistani chess grandmaster born April 3, 1966.

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Barsov, lawyer by education, has been a professional chess player since the early 1990's, and is one of the premier players in Uzbekistan. For some years he was the coach of the world chess champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov. He won the Vlissingen chess tournament in 1995. 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. He won a tournament in Saint-Quentin 2004, and Casablanca 2005. In 2006 he won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship. Barsov represented Uzbekistan at the Chess Olympiads in Istanbul 2000, Calvià 2004, and Turin 2006.

Barsov plays in several European chess clubs, and has played in the German Chess Bundesliga.

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