Alexei Barsov (born 3 April 1966) is an

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Grandmaster.

Chess career

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 former FIDE world champion

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. He won the Zeeland Open in

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in 1995. Barsov's victories in Oxford (1998) and York (1999, together with

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and

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) rate among his most prominent successes in international chess tournaments. In 2001 he won the

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together with Harikrishna and Sasikiran. Barsov competed in the

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, losing in the first round to

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. He won a tournament in Saint-Quentin 2004, and Casablanca 2005. Barsov won the

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in 2006 and 2010. In 2011, he came first in the 4th

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Open tournament. In the following year, Barsov tied for first place with Semetey Tologontegin at the 2nd Central Asia Chess Cup in

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winning the tournament on tiebreak score. Barsov represented Uzbekistan at the

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s in Istanbul 2000, Calvià 2004, Turin 2006, Dresden 2008 and Khanty-Mansiysk 2010. He has played for several European chess clubs, including the ones competing in the German

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Notable games

Alexei Barsov vs Zhong Zhang, Premier 2001, Nimzo-Indian Defense: Three Knights Variation (E21), 1-0Peter K Wells vs Alexei Barsov, Premier 2002, English Opening: Agincourt Defense (A13), 0-1

References

External links

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Alexei Barsov
chess games at 365Chess.com * 1966 births Living people Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Uzbekistani chess players Chess players at the 2006 Asian Games Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Uzbekistan {{Uzbekistan-chess-bio-stub