Timur Gareyev (sometimes spelled ''Gareev''; born March 3, 1988) is an Uzbeki-American

chess grandmaster Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is held for life, though exceptionally it h ...

. He was born in

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of ...

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

parents. Gareyev was a part of the

University of Texas at Brownsville , mottoeng = Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. , established = , closed = (merged with UT–Pan American to form The UTRGV) , type = Public State University , presid ...

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team from August 2005 to August 2006 and from August 2009 to December 2011 where he helped the university obtain its first national championship along with other collegiate honors. In 2007, he tied for first with Vladimir Egin and

Anton Filippov Anton Filippov (born 6 December 1986 in Tashkent) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster (2008). He won the Asian Under-16 Chess Championship in 2001 in Doha, and the Asian U18 Championship in 2004. In 2007 he tied for 1st–3rd with Vladimir Egi ...

in the

Uzbekistani Chess Championship The Uzbekistani Chess Championship is a chess tournament held in Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; rus ...

. Gareyev has participated in two

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

s: 2004 Calvià, Spain and 2006 Turin, Italy. Gareyev won the 20th Annual

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Open and the 11th Metropolitan Chess FIDE Invitational tournament. Gareyev graduated with B.A. degree in Business Marketing from the University of Texas at Brownsville. He lived and promoted chess in Southern California but now lives in Kansas. Gareyev won the North American Open 2012 and tied for third in the

U.S. Chess Championship The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the United States chess champion. Begun as a challenge match in 1845, the U.S. Championship has been decided by tournament play for most of its long history. Since 1936, i ...

2013. He won the U.S. Open with an 8-1 clear-first-place score in 2018. Gareyev's simultaneous

blindfold chess Blindfold chess, also known as ''sans voir'', is a form of chess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces and do not touch them. This forces players to maintain a mental model of the positions of the pieces. Moves are commu ...

record includes a 19-game blindfold simul in Cypress, Texas, September 2012, a 27-game (set in stages) simul in Hawaii Dec 2012, a 33-game (set in stages) match in St Louis, May 2013 and a world record 48-board simul in Las Vegas, on December 4, 2016. Gareyev's win in the 2018 US Open qualified him for a place in the 2019

, where he finished in a three-way tie for 9th place out of a field of 12. In 2020, Gareyev won first place in the 27th annual Western Class Championship tied with John Daniel Bryant. Gareyev is also a

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with close to 150 solo jumps. When Gareyev won th
119th edition
of the U.S. Open, ''

Chess Life The monthly ''Chess Life'' and bi-monthly ''Chess Life Kids'' (formerly ''School Mates'' and ''Chess Life for Kids'') are the official magazines published by the United States Chess Federation (US Chess). ''Chess Life'' is advertised as the "most ...

'' magazine published his sky-diving photo with a

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as a cover.

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The United States Chess Federation - Obama Visits and Gareev Wins in Philly
1988 births Volga Tatar people Living people Chess grandmasters Uzbekistani chess players American chess players Sportspeople from Tashkent Uzbekistani people of Tatar descent American people of Tatar descent {{Uzbekistan-chess-bio-stub