Timur Gareyev (sometimes spelled ''Gareev''; born March 3, 1988) is an Uzbeki-American

chess grandmaster Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is held for life, though exceptionally it h ...

. He was born in

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of ...

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parents. Gareyev was a part of the University of Texas at Brownsville's

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team from August 2005 to August 2006 and from August 2009 to December 2011 where he helped the university obtain its first national championship along with other collegiate honors. In 2007, he tied for first with Vladimir Egin and Anton Filippov in the Uzbekistani Chess Championship. Gareyev has participated in two

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 an ...

s: 2004 Calvià, Spain and 2006 Turin, Italy. Gareyev won the 20th Annual

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Open and the 11th Metropolitan Chess FIDE Invitational tournament. Gareyev graduated with B.A. degree in Business Marketing from the University of Texas at Brownsville. He lived and promoted chess in Southern California but now lives in Kansas. Gareyev won the North American Open 2012 and tied for third in the

U.S. Chess Championship The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the United States chess champion. Begun as a challenge match in 1845, the U.S. Championship has been decided by tournament play for most of its long history. Since 1936, i ...

2013. He won the U.S. Open with an 8-1 clear-first-place score in 2018. Gareyev's simultaneous

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record includes a 19-game blindfold simul in Cypress, Texas, September 2012, a 27-game (set in stages) simul in Hawaii Dec 2012, a 33-game (set in stages) match in St Louis, May 2013 and a world record 48-board simul in Las Vegas, on December 4, 2016. Gareyev's win in the 2018 US Open qualified him for a place in the 2019

, where he finished in a three-way tie for 9th place out of a field of 12. In 2020, Gareyev won first place in the 27th annual Western Class Championship tied with John Daniel Bryant. Gareyev is also a

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with close to 150 solo jumps. When Gareyev won th
119th edition
of the U.S. Open, '' Chess Life'' magazine published his sky-diving photo with a chess board as a cover.

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