Alexei Barsov

Alexei Barsov (born 3 April 1966) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster.

[1] Barsov's victories in Oxford (1998) and York (1999, together with Tiger Hillarp Persson and Julian Hodgson) rate among his most prominent successes in international chess tournaments.

Barsov competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, losing in the first round to Alexander Beliavsky.

[2] In the following year, Barsov tied for first place with Semetey Tologontegin at the 2nd Central Asia Chess Cup in Bishkek[3] winning the tournament on tiebreak score.

[4] Barsov represented Uzbekistan at the Chess Olympiads in Istanbul 2000, Calvià 2004, Turin 2006, Dresden 2008 and Khanty-Mansiysk 2010.