Alexei Barsov

{{Short description|Uzbek chess grandmaster (born 1966)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox chess biography | name = Alexei Barsov | image = Barsow alexej 20081120 olympiade dresden.jpg | caption = Barsov in 2018  | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|04|03|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Samarkand]], Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place =  | country = {{ubl|Soviet Union (until 1991)|Uzbekistan (since 1991)}} | title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (2000) | peakrating = 2550 (April 2002) | peakranking = | FideID = 14200082 }} '''Alexei Barsov''' (born 3 April 1966) is an Uzbek [[chess 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 [[World Chess Championship|FIDE world champion]] [[Rustam Kasimdzhanov]].

He won the [[Vlissingen chess tournament|Zeeland Open]] in [[Vlissingen]] in 1995.<ref>[http://www.hztoernooi.nl/index.php/en/winners Winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216220341/http://www.hztoernooi.nl/index.php/en/winners |date=2016-02-16 }}. ''HZ Toernooi''.</ref> Barsov's victories in Oxford (1998) and York (1999, together with [[Tiger Hillarp Persson]] and [[Julian Hodgson]]) rate among his most prominent successes in international chess tournaments. In 2001 he won the [[Hastings International Chess Congress]] together with [[Pendyala Harikrishna|Harikrishna]] and [[Krishnan Sasikiran|Sasikiran]]. Barsov competed in the [[FIDE World Chess Championship 2004]], losing in the first round to [[Alexander Beliavsky]]. He won a tournament in [[Saint-Quentin, Aisne|Saint-Quentin]] 2004, and Casablanca 2005. Barsov won the [[Uzbekistani Chess Championship]] in 2006 and 2010. In 2011, he came first in the 4th [[Beirut]] Open tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chess-results.com/tnr50317.aspx?art=1&lan=1&wi=1000|title=Beirut 4th International Open Chess Championship 2011|date=2011-05-22|publisher=Chess-Results.com|accessdate=24 May 2011}}</ref> In the following year, Barsov tied for first place with [[Semetey Tologontegin]] at the 2nd Central Asia Chess Cup in [[Bishkek]]<ref>[https://ratings.fide.com/view_source.phtml?code=69928 2st (sic) Central Asia Chess Cup Original Tournament Report] FIDE. Retrieved 8 December 2015</ref> winning the tournament on tiebreak score.<ref>{{cite news|title=Сборная Кыргызстана заняла 2 командное место на Кубке Центральной Азии по шахматам на Иссык-Куле|url=https://sport.akipress.org/news:81451/|accessdate=13 February 2016|agency=[[AKIpress news agency|Sport AKIpress]]|date=2012-06-21|language=Russian}}</ref>

Barsov represented Uzbekistan at the [[Chess Olympiad]]s in [[34th Chess Olympiad|Istanbul 2000]], [[36th Chess Olympiad|Calvià 2004]], [[37th Chess Olympiad|Turin 2006]], [[38th Chess Olympiad|Dresden 2008]] and [[39th Chess Olympiad|Khanty-Mansiysk 2010]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/1lv7vtre.html|title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Alexei Barsov|last=Bartelski|first=Wojciech|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=2009-07-08}}</ref> He has played for several European chess clubs, including the ones competing in the German [[Chess Bundesliga]].

==Notable games== *[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1242342, Alexei Barsov vs Zhong Zhang, Premier 2001, Nimzo-Indian Defense: Three Knights Variation (E21), 1-0] *[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1242373, Peter K Wells vs Alexei Barsov, Premier 2002, English Opening: Agincourt Defense (A13), 0-1]

== References == <references/>

== External links == *{{FIDE}} *[https://www.365chess.com/players/Alexei_Barsov Alexei Barsov] chess games at 365Chess.com *{{chessgames player|id=39734}}

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