| Timur Gareev | |
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Timur Gareev, 2009 |
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| Country | Uzbekistan |
| Born | March 3, 1988 |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2599 (May 2010) |
| Peak rating | 2602 (July 2009) |
Timur Gareev (born March 3, 1988 of Tatar parents) is a chess Grandmaster from Uzbekistan. In 2004 he became the youngest-ever chess grandmaster from Asia at age 16. Timur was a part of the University of Texas at Brownsville's Chess Team from August 2005 to August 2006 where he helped the University obtain its first National Championship. In 2007 he tied for 1st–3rd with Vladimir Egin and Anton Filippov in the Uzbekistani Chess Championship.[1] In 2011 he won the 20th Annual Chicago Open[2] and the 11th Metropolitan Chess FIDE Invitational tournament.[3]
As of 2010, Gareev studies Business & Accounting in the University of Texas at Brownsville.