Anton Filippov is an Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

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Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster (2008).

In 2007 he tied for 1st-3rd with Vladimir Egin and Timur Gareev

Timur Gareev

Timur Gareev is a chess Grandmaster from Uzbekistan. In 2004 he became the youngest-ever chess grandmaster from Asia at age 16. Timur was a part of the University of Texas at Brownsville's Chess Team from August 2005 to August 2006 where he helped the University obtain its first National...

 in the Uzbekistani Chess Championship

Uzbekistani Chess Championship

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. In 2008 he won the 1st Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

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 Open Championship and tied for 4-8th with Tamaz Gelashvili

Tamaz Gelashvili

Tamaz Gelashvili is a chess grandmaster from Georgia. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1999. His highest FIDE rating has been 2623, achieved in October 2007. His national ranking is fourth and he has played for...

, Constantin Lupulescu

Constantin Lupulescu

Constantin Lupulescu is a Romanian chess Grandmaster . He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, but was eliminated in the first round by Daniel Fridman....

, Nidjat Mamedov

Nidjat Mamedov

Nidjat Mamedov is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster . In 2011 he won the Azerbaijani Chess Championship.In 2007/08 he tied for first with Vadim Malakhatko and Valeriy Neverov in the Hastings International Chess Congress...

 and Alexander Zubarev

Alexander Zubarev

Alexander Zubarev in is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster .In 2008 he tied for 4-8th with Tamaz Gelashvili, Anton Filippov, Constantin Lupulescu and Nidjat Mamedov in the Open Romgaz Tournament in Bucharest. In 2010 he came first at Ambès and won the 6th Anatoly Ermak Cup in Zaporizhia. In the same...

 in the Open Romgaz Tournament in Bucharest 2008. In 2009, he won the 4th President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a Filipino politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, and is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga...

 Cup in Manila

Manila

Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...

, tied for second with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mammadyarov , also known for his Shah nickname, is a chess Grandmaster. On the September 2010 FIDE rating list he was ranked number nine in the world with an Elo rating of 2756....

 in the 4th Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

 Open, tied for 3rd-8th with Vadim Malakhatko

Vadim Malakhatko

Vadim Malakhatko is a Ukrainian–Belgian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001 World Team Chess Championship...

, Elshan Moradiabadi, Merab Gagunashvili

Merab Gagunashvili

Merab Gagunashvili is a Georgian chess grandmaster and Georgian Champion in 2004.In 2001, he won the silver medal in the World Junior Chess Championship. In 2009 he tied for 3rd-8th with Anton Filippov, Elshan Moradiabadi, Vadim Malakhatko, Alexander Shabalov and Niaz Murshed in the Ravana...

, Alexander Shabalov

Alexander Shabalov

Alexander Shabalov is an American chess grandmaster, the multiple winner of the U.S. Chess Championships; he was the 2007 US Champion. He was born in Latvia, and like his fellow Latvians Alexei Shirov and Mikhail Tal he is known for courting complications even at the cost of objective soundness...

 and Niaz Murshed in the Ravana Challenge Tournament in Colombo

Colombo

Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...

. In 2010 he tied for 3rd-6th with Ding Liren

Ding Liren

Ding Liren is the reigning Chess Champion of China. On 6 June 2009, at the age of 16, he became the youngest ever person to win the national title. In April 2011 he won the Chinese Chess Championship for the second time. In October 2009, he became China's 30th Grandmaster...

, Zhou Jianchao

Zhou Jianchao

Zhou Jianchao is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2006, he became China's 21st Grandmaster at the age of 17. In March 2009, Zhou became for the first time in his career a player in the world...

 and Merab Gagunashvili

Merab Gagunashvili

Merab Gagunashvili is a Georgian chess grandmaster and Georgian Champion in 2004.In 2001, he won the silver medal in the World Junior Chess Championship. In 2009 he tied for 3rd-8th with Anton Filippov, Elshan Moradiabadi, Vadim Malakhatko, Alexander Shabalov and Niaz Murshed in the Ravana...

 in the 1st Florencio Campomanes

Florencio Campomanes

Florencio Campomanes was a Filipino political scientist, chess player, and chess organizer.- Education :...

 Memorial in Manila and came first in the First Safin

Shukhrat Safin

Shukhrat Safin was a chess Grandmaster . He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002, but was knocked out in the first round by Predrag Nikolić....

 Memorial in Tashkent. In 2011, he tied for 1st-3rd with Tigran L. Petrosian

Tigran L. Petrosian

Tigran L. Petrosian is an Armenian chess player who holds the title of grandmaster . His first name was deliberately chosen by his father to match the name of the former world champion Tigran V. Petrosian who was also of Armenian descent...

 and Marat Dzhumaev

Marat Dzhumaev

Marat Dzhumaev is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster .Played for Uzbekistan in the Chess Olympiads of 2000 and 2002, in the World Team Chess Championship of 2001 and in the Asian Team Chess Championships of 1999, 2003 and 2008...

 in the Georgy Agzamov

Georgy Agzamov

Georgy Tadzhikhanovich Agzamov was a Soviet chess Grandmaster. He became an International Master in 1982 and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1984....

 Memorial in Tashkent

Tashkent

Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...

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Filippov played for Uzbekistan in the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

s of 2004 and 2006. In the March 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2604, making him Uzbekistan's number three.

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