Artyom Timofeev is a Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n chess

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. He won the European Youth Chess Championship

European Youth Chess Championship

Since 1991, the European chess union organises the European Youth Chess Championship in the groups under 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 year. Until 2002, there was also a tournament for the under 20, see European Junior Chess Championship.-Boys winners:...

 for U18 in 2000. He tied for 1st-6th with Evgeniy Najer

Evgeniy Najer

Evgeniy Najer is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2002 he shared the victory of the U.S. Open Chess Championship with Gennadi Zaichik and in 2003 won the Moscow City Chess Championship....

, Kaido Külaots

Kaido Külaots

Kaido Külaots is an Estonian chess Grandmaster .He won Estonian Chess Championship in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010 and played for Estonia in the Chess Olympiads of 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008....

, Zoltan Gyimesi

Zoltan Gyimesi

Zoltán Gyimesi is a Hungarian chess player. He has participated in 4 Chess Olympiads 1998, 2002-2006 with a record of +11=18-4. In 2002 at the 35th Chess Olympiad, the Hungarian team won the silver medal with Gyimesi on the fourth board...

, Sergey Grigoriants and Oleg Korneev at the Cappelle-la-Grande Open

Cappelle-la-Grande Open

The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985.It has become over the years one of the strongest opens in the world, after the Aeroflot Open of Moscow...

 2004. In 2005 he won the Russian Championship for U20 and tied for 2nd-5th with Kamil Mitoń

Kamil Miton

Kamil Mitoń is a Polish chess Grandmaster .In 1996, he won the World Chess U12 Championship, in Minorca....

, Zhang Pengxiang

Zhang Pengxiang

Zhang Pengxiang is a Chinese chess Grandmaster, and was the 2007 Asian Chess Champion. In 2001, he became China's 12th Grandmaster. He has stated his desire to teach and give training to youngsters in China via an . He lives in Beijing.-Career:...

 and Lázaro Bruzón

Lázaro Bruzón

Lázaro Bruzón Batista is a chess grandmaster from Cuba. On the January 2011 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2686. Bruzón was the 2000 World Junior Chess Champion. In 2004 he finished first at the XII Torneo "Guillermo Garcia" in Memoriam in Villa Clara...

 in the Samba Cup in Skanderborg

Skanderborg

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. He won the 2008 Moscow Open.

On the April 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2677, making him number 53 in the world.

External links

• 2008 Moscow Open