Evgeny Agrest

Evgeny Agrest

at the Dresden Olympiad, 2008
Full name Evgeny Agrest
Country  Sweden
Born August 15, 1966 (1966-08-15) (age 45)
Vitebsk, Belarus
Title Grandmaster (1997)
FIDE rating 2599 (September 2011)
Peak rating 2616 (January 2004)

Evgeny Agrest (born 15 August 1966, Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian–Swedish chess grandmaster (1997).

He won the Belarus Youth championship three times. In 1994, he graduated with a degree in Economics and in the same year emigrated to Sweden. He was four-time Swedish Champion (1998, 2001, 2003, and 2004), and thrice Nordic Champion (2001 jointly with Artur Kogan,[1] 2003 jointly with Curt Hansen,[2] and 2005[3]). He played for Sweden in Chess Olympiads in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006[4] and 2008.[5]

Agrest is married to Woman International Master (WIM) Svetlana Agrest.

Books

References

  1. ^ Nordic Championships 2001
  2. ^ Nordisk Mesterskab 2003
  3. ^ Nordic Championship 2005
  4. ^ Agrest, Evgenij team chess record at olimpbase.org
  5. ^ Swedish team in 2008

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