Evgeny Bareev

Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev (Russian: Евгений Ильгизович Бареев; born 21 November 1966) is a Russian-Canadian chess player, trainer, and writer.

[9][10] In a man versus machine contest in January 2003, Bareev took on the chess program HIARCS in a four game-match: all four games were drawn.

With Ilya Levitov, Bareev wrote From London to Elista, a book on the championship as well as Kramnik's subsequent championship matches against Peter Leko and Veselin Topalov; it received the Book of the Year award from the English Chess Federation in 2008.

[citation needed] In 2010, he tied for first with Konstantin Chernyshov, Lê Quang Liêm and Ernesto Inarkiev in the Moscow Open.

[16] In 2015, Bareev, who had moved to Toronto in 2006,[17] transferred his FIDE membership from the Russian to the Canadian Chess Federation.

[4] In recent years, he has coached outstanding young Canadian players such as Razvan Preotu and Michael Song, as well as the Vietnamese grandmaster, Liem Le.