Timur Gareyev

Timur Gareyev, Karlsruhe 2019
Association	Uzbekistan (until 2012) United States (since 2012)
Born	March 3, 1988 Tashkent , Soviet Union
title	International Master (2003) Grand Master (2004)
Current  Elo rating	2606 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2682 (February 2013)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Timur Gareyev ( Uzbek Temur Gareyev ; born March 3, 1988 in Tashkent ) is an Uzbek chess player . Since July 2012 he has been playing for the US Chess Federation ( USCF ).

Life

When he was six years old he learned to play chess from his grandfather. In 2005 Timur Gareyev came to the United States on a chess scholarship from the University of Texas at Brownsville . From 2009 he also played chess for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County . In the United States Chess League , he played for the Seattle Sluggers in 2013 and for the Las Vegas Desert Rats in 2015 .

He was trained in Uzbekistan by Georgi Borissenko and at the University of Brownsville , which he graduated from, by Ronen Har-Zvi .

successes

At the Uzbek Individual Championship 2007 in Tashkent, he shared the victory with Vladimir Egin and Anton Filippov . In the United States, he won the country's top tier tournaments. His tournament wins there include the Liberty Bell Open (2008 and 2009), National Open (2010), Chicago Open (2011), US Open (2011) and Land of the Sky (2012). On September 24, 2016, Gareyev set a new world record in blind chess when he played against 64 players in a row in Coralville . On December 3, 2016, he set a new world record in blind simultaneity when he played blind simulta- neously against 48 opponents at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He sat blindfolded on an exercise bike and in this way got 35 wins and 7 draws; 6 games were lost.

He played for the Uzbek national team at the 2004 Chess Olympiads (8 points from 11 games with an Elo rating of 2632 on the reserve board) and 2006 (8 points from 11 games with an Elo rating of 2716 on the third board) and at the Asian team championship 2008 on top board.

In August 2003 he was awarded the title of International Master . He achieved the norms for this in July 2002 in Oral , in January 2003 in Belovo and a month later in Kemerovo . Less than a year later, in July 2004, he was awarded the title of Grand Master . Two submitted tournaments were sufficient for this, as he had the required number of games in Serpukhov in November 2003 with 14.5 points from 19 games and in April 2004 in Lviv with 12 out of 15.

In December 2015, he was twelfth in the US Elo ranking.

Web links

Commons : Timur Gareyev  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Timur Gareyev on 365Chess.com (English)
• CV on chessondvd.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Change of Association 2012 (English)
2. ↑ Timur Gareyev breaks blind game world record . Article by Eric Vigil on September 29, 2016 at ChessBase
3. ↑ Timur Gareyev's world record in blind simultaneous . Article by Klaus Besenthal from December 4, 2016 at ChessBase
4. ↑ Timur Gareyev's Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Timur Gareyev's results at the Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ IM application (English)
7. ↑ GM application (English)