Alexei Barsov

Alexei Barsov at the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden
Association	Uzbekistan
Born	April 3, 1966 Samarqand
title	International Master (1992) Grand Master (2000)
Current  Elo rating	2374 (January 2020)
Best Elo rating	2550 (April 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alexei Barsov (born April 3, 1966 in Samarqand ) is an Uzbek chess master .

Barsov, a trained lawyer, has been a professional chess player since the early 1990s and is one of the leading players in Uzbekistan . For several years he was the trainer and second of the FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimjanov . He has been an International Master since 1992, and has held the title of Grand Master since 2000 . His most significant successes in international tournaments include victories in Oxford in 1998 and York in 1999 (shared with Tiger Hillarp Persson and Julian Hodgson ), he was shared first (1-9th) in Cairo 2001, second in Abu Dhabi 2001. He won that Traditional tournament of Hastings 2001/02 (together with P. Harikrishna and K. Sasikiran ), 2003 in Tarbes . In the same year he came second in Bogny-sur-Meuse 2003 and won in St. Quentin 2004, then second in Caerleon 2005 and winner in Casablanca 2005. Barsov represented Uzbekistan at the 2000 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (where he was the best player on the second reserve board war), 2004 in Calvià , 2006 in Turin , 2008 in Dresden and 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk , at the Asian team championship in 2016 and at the chess competitions of the Asian Games in 2006 and 2010 .

Barsov plays in several European chess clubs. In Germany he played in the 2nd Bundesliga for Chess Friends Lohmar and SK Krumbach . In the top Dutch league ( Hoofdklasse until 1996 , then Meesterklasse ) Barsov played from 1995 to 2001 at Bussums Schaakgenootschap , in the French Top 12 he played at Club de L'Echiquier Chalonnais in the 2010/11 season .

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Alexei Barsov on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexei Barsov's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ OlimpBase :: Men's Asian Team Chess Championship :: Alexei Barsov. In: OlimpBase. Retrieved September 17, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Alexei Barsov's results of the Asian Games on olimpbase.org (English) via Internet Archive