Alexei Barsov

Alexei Barsov ( born April 3, 1966 in Samarkand ) is an Uzbekistani chess master.

Barsov, a trained lawyer, has since the early 1990s, professional chess player and one of the leading players in Uzbekistan. Some years he was coach and Sekundant the FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimjanov. Since 1992 he is an International Master, since 2000 it bears the title of Grand Master. Among his most important successes in international tournaments including victories in Oxford in 1998 and York 1999 ( shared with Tiger Hillarp Persson and Julian Hodgson ), he was tied for first (1st - 9th ) in Cairo in 2001, second in Abu Dhabi 2001. He won the traditional tournament of Hastings 2001/ 02 ( together with P. Harikrishna and K. Sasikiran ), 2003 in Tarbes. In the same year he was second in Bogny -sur -Meuse in 2003 and won in St. Quentin in 2004, then second in Caerleon in 2005 and winner in Casablanca in 2005. Barsov represented Uzbekistan at the Chess Olympiads in 2000 in Istanbul ( where he the best player at second reserve board was ), 2004 in Calvià, 2006 in Turin, 2008 in Dresden and 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk.

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