Timur Gareyev (sometimes spelled ''Gareev''; born March 3, 1988) is an Uzbeki-American chess grandmaster. He was born in
Tashkent
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chess
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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
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and
Anton Filippov
Anton Filippov (born 6 December 1986 in Tashkent) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster (2008).
He won the Asian Under-16 Chess Championship in 2001 in Doha, and the Asian U18 Championship in 2004. In 2007 he tied for 1st–3rd with Vladimir Egin ...
Chess Olympiad
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Chicago
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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 2013. He won the U.S. Open with an 8-1 clear-first-place score in 2018. Gareyev's simultaneous blindfold chess 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 U.S. Chess Championship, 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
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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
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'' magazine published his sky-diving photo with a
chess board
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