Evgeny Bareev

Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev (Евгений Ильгизович Бареев; born 21 November 1966) is a Russian-Canadian chess player, trainer, and writer.

Bareev was world under 16 champion in 1982.

Awarded the FIDE Grandmaster title in 1989, he was ranked fourth in the world in the international rankings in 1992 and again in 2003, with an Elo rating of 2739.

Bareev was a three-time winner of the Premier Tournament at the annual Hastings Chess Congress in 1990/91, 1991/92 and 1992/93, shared with Judit Polgár; the event was then still staged as an invitational tournament in round-robin format.

Bareev was a member of the Soviet national team at the 1990 Chess Olympiad and of the Russian national team at the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2006.

He won the team gold medal in 1990, 1994, 1996 and 1998.

In 1992 he graduated from the chess faculty of the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture.

Bareev is a four-time winner of the European Club Cup with three clubs: Lion of France (1994), Ladia of Russia (1997) and Bosna of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999, 2000).

Bareev is also a two-time winner of the World Team Chess Championship (1997, 2005) and a two-time winner of the European Team Chess Championship (1992, 2003).

He was a second to Vladimir Kramnik in the Classical World Chess Championship 2000 against Garry Kasparov.

Bareev was a finalist of the World Cup 2000, where he lost to Viswanathan Anand, and of the Rapid World Cup 2001, where he lost to Kasparov.

His greatest success was winning the elite Corus Tournament at Wijk aan Zee in 2002.

At this event he scored 9/13 points, ahead of top players such as Alexander Grischuk, Michael Adams, Alexander Morozevich, and Peter Leko.

He also won the strong Enghien-les-Bains tournament held in France in 2003.

In a man versus machine contest in January 2003, Bareev took on the chess program HIARCS in a four game-match: all four games were drawn.

His most notable participation in World Chess Championship events was the Candidates Tournament for the Classical World Chess Championship 2004 in Dortmund 2002.

Bareev reached the semifinals, but lost his match against Topalov.

At the Chess World Cup 2005, Bareev qualified for the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2007, played in May–June 2007.

He won his match against Judit Polgár (+2-1=3), but was eliminated after losing his second-round match to Peter Leko (+0-2=3).

In 2006, Bareev organized a grandmaster school for top Russian junior players and headed it until 2010.

With Ilya Levitov, Bareev wrote From London to Elista, a book on the championship as well as Kramnik's subsequent championship matches against Peter Leko and Veselin Topalov; it received the Book of the Year award from the English Chess Federation in 2008.

In 2009 he worked with Lê Quang Liêm, who became World Blitz Champion in 2013.

In 2010, he tied for first with Konstantin Chernyshov, Lê Quang Liêm and Ernesto Inarkiev in the Moscow Open.

In 2010-11, Bareev was the head coach of the Russian men's chess team.

During that time the team won the silver medal at the 2010 Chess Olympiad.

Between 2010 and 2014, he was the head coach of Russia's junior, men's and women's national teams.

In recent years, he has coached outstanding young Canadian players such as Razvan Preotu and Michael Song, as well as the Vietnamese grandmaster, Liem Le.

In 2015, Bareev, who had moved to Toronto in 2006, transferred his FIDE membership from the Russian to the Canadian Chess Federation.

He played on the Canadian team at the Olympiads in 2016 and 2018.

In 2019, he won the Canadian Zonal Championship, thereby qualifying for the FIDE World Cup.

He lost to Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the first round.

Bareev shared equal first with Razvan Preotu at the 2021 Zonal Championship.

At the World Cup, he defeated Daniel Quizon in the first round, but then lost to Aryan Tari.

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