Timur Gareev

Timur Gareev ( Uzbek Temur Gareyev; born March 3, 1988 in Tashkent) is an Uzbekistani chess player. Since July 2012, he plays for the U.S. Chess Federation ( USCF ).

Life

When he was six years old, he learned to play chess from his grandfather. 2005 Timur Gareev came through a chess scholarship from the University of Texas at Brownsville in the United States. From 2009 he played chess for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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

Achievements

In the Uzbek Individual Championship 2007 in Tashkent, he shared the victory with Vladimir Egin and Anton Filippov. In the United States he won the bestdotierten tournaments in the country. His tournament victories there include Liberty Bell Open ( 2008 and 2009), National Open (2010), Chicago Open ( 2011), U.S. Open (2011) and Land of the Sky ( 2012).

For the Uzbek national team he played in the Chess Olympiads 2004 ( 8 points from 11 games at an Elo performance of 2632 at the reserve board ) and 2006 (8 points from 11 games at an Elo performance of 2716 on the third board ) as well as in the Asian Team Championship 2008 on top board.

In August 2003, he was awarded the title of International Master. The standards for this he achieved in July 2002 in Oral, in January 2003 in Belovo and a month later in Kemerovo. Less than a year later, in July 2004, it the Grandmaster title was awarded. For this purpose ranged submitted two tournaments since he with 14.5 points from 19 games and in April 2004 in Lviv, 12 of 15 had the required part number in its standards in November 2003 in Serpukhov.

His Elo rating is 2674 (as of March 2013), he is so behind Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky in third place of the U.S. Elo ranking. Gareevs highest ever Elo rating was 2682 in February 2013.