| Alexei Barsov | |
|---|---|
| Country | Soviet Union Uzbekistan |
| Born | April 3, 1966 Samarkand, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2503 (March 2011) |
| Peak rating | 2550 |
Alexei Barsov (born April 3, 1966) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster.
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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 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. In 2011, he came first in the 4th Beirut Open tournament.[1]
Barsov represented Uzbekistan at the Chess Olympiads in Istanbul 2000, Calvià 2004, Turin 2006 and Dresden 2008.[2] He plays in several European chess clubs, and has played in the German Chess Bundesliga.