| Evgeniy Najer | |
|---|---|
| Country | Russia |
| Born | June 22, 1977 Moscow |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2638 (No. 116 on the March 2011 FIDE ratings list) |
| Peak rating | 2682 (October 2008) |
Evgeniy Najer (born 22 June 1977) is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2002 he shared the victory of the U.S. Open Chess Championship with Gennadi Zaichik[1] and in 2003 won the Moscow City Chess Championship.[2]
He tied for 1st–6th with Kaido Külaots, Artyom Timofeev, Zoltan Gyimesi, Sergey Grigoriants and Oleg Korneev at the Cappelle-la-Grande Open 2004.[3] In the same year he tied for 1st–3rd with Michael Roiz and Leonid Gofshtein in the Ashdod Chess Festival.[4] In 2007 he tied for 1st–2nd with Vasily Yemelin in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament.[5] In both 2008 and 2009 he won the World Open in Philadelphia.[6] In July 2009, he tied for first with Robert Fontaine in the Paleohora Open Tournament.[7] In 2010, he tied for 2nd–5th with Michael Adams, Victor Mikhalevski and Jiri Stocek the 14th Chicago Open.[8]
He was one of the seconds of Gata Kamsky in his 2009 match against Veselin Topalov.[9]