Evgeny Bareev

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

**Evgeny Bareev**
Image:Jewgeni-Barejew.jpg
Full name	Евгений Ильгизович Бареев
Country	Image:Flag of Russia.svg Russia
Born	November 21 1966 (1966-11-21) (age 43) Yemanzhelinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

Title	Grandmaster


FIDE rating	2677 (No. 41 on the January 2008 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating	2739 (October 2003)

Evgeny Bareev (born in a Tatar family on 21 November 1966) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.In October 2003, he was in fourth place in the world rankings, with an ELO rating of 2739.

Bareev was World Under-16 Champion in 1982 when his talent was first showcased internationally. Bareev was a member of the Russian national team in the two Chess Olympiads of 1994 and 1996. The biggest success in his career was winning the Corus super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee 2002. In this event he scored 9/13 ahead of elite players like Alexander Grischuk, Michael Adams, Alexander Morozevich, and Peter Leko. In a man vs. machine contest in January 2003, Bareev took on the chess program HIARCS in a four game-match: all four games were drawn. In the Enghien-les-Bains tournament held in France in 2003, Bareev finished in first place.

He was a second to Vladimir Kramnik in his triumphant World championship match against Garry Kasparov in 2000.

His most notable participation in the World Chess Championship events was the Candidates Tournament for the Classical World Chess Championship 2004 in Dortmund 2002. Bareev reached the semi-finals, but lost his match against Veselin Topalov.

At the 2005 Chess World Cup, Bareev qualified for the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007, being played in May-June 2007. He won his first round match against Judit Polgar (+2-1=3), but was eliminated when he lost his second round match against Peter Leko (+0-2=3).