Timur Gareev is a 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 from 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....

. 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 Championship. In 2007 he tied for 1st-3rd with Vladimir Egin and Anton Filippov

Anton Filippov

Anton Filippov is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster .In 2007 he tied for 1st-3rd with Vladimir Egin and Timur Gareev in the Uzbekistani Chess Championship. In 2008 he won the 1st Kuala Lumpur Open Championship and tied for 4-8th with Tamaz Gelashvili, Constantin Lupulescu, Nidjat Mamedov and...

 in the Uzbekistani Chess Championship

Uzbekistani Chess Championship

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. In 2011 he won the 20th Annual Chicago

Chicago

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 Open.

As of 2010, Gareev studies Business & Accounting in the University of Texas at Brownsville.

External links

• The United States Chess Federation - Obama Visits and Gareev Wins in Philly