Evgeny Bareev in Toronto

[Michael Barron]

Host: Ryerson's Russian-Ukrainian Club
Type: Education - Lecture
Network: Global
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Thomas Lounge, Oakham house
Address: 55 Gould Street M5B 1E9
City/Town: Toronto, ON

Phone: 416-836-6877
Email: yuriylitvinov@gmail.com

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/editevent.ph...id=93918479338

Ryerson's Russian-Ukrainian Club is happy to present you with a unique event - chess lecture and a simultaneous game with one of the top grandmasters in the world. This is the first simultaneous game with GM Evgeniy Bareev in Toronto History and we hope that it's going to be a good one.

Whether you just learning to play chess or want to try yourself against one of the best, please come and show your support. We will encourage a donation of 20$ at the entrance. Seats are limited! To secure a place in the game please email your info to the email below or post it on the wall of the event.


A little info about Evgeny (copied from wikipedia)
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Evgeny Bareev (born in a Tatar family on 21 November 1966) is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In October 2003, he was in fourth place in the world rankings, with an Elo rating of 2739.

Bareev was World Under-16 Champion in 1982 when his talent was first showcased internationally. Bareev was a member of the Russian national team in the two Chess Olympiads of 1994 and 1996. The biggest success in his career was winning the Corus super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee 2002. In this event he scored 9/13 ahead of elite players like Alexander Grischuk, Michael Adams, Alexander Morozevich, and Peter Leko. In the Enghien-les-Bains tournament held in France in 2003, Bareev finished in first place. In a man vs. machine contest in January 2003, Bareev took on the chess program HIARCS in a four game-match: all four games were drawn.

He was a second to Vladimir Kramnik in his triumphant 2000 World championship match against Garry Kasparov.

His most notable participation in the World Chess Championship events was the Candidates Tournament for the Classical World Chess
Championship 2004 in Dortmund 2002. Bareev reached the semi-finals, but lost his match against Veselin Topalov.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Bareev

[Michael Barron]

This event was a great success!

Abot 40 chess enthusiasts came to listen to GM Evgeniy Bareev's lecture, where he shared his knowledge about main ideas in Caro-Kann Defence and deep inside understanding of highest levels of the chess world.

After the lecture 24 the bravest players challenged GM Evgeniy Bareev in the simul:
Veronika Orlova
Pavel Rakov
Konstantin Semianiuk
Jason Nguyen
Samir Hossain
Sina Makaremi
Leon Perelman
Bill Kim
Brett Campbell
Egidijus Zeromskis
Konstantin Sanakoev
Edmond Jodhi
Olya Chichkina
Sasha Krotov
Ernesto Villaluz
Tyler Longo
Caesar Posylek
Romeo Celis
Mei Chen Lee
Alex Ferreira
Marina Olhovsky
Michael Kimelman
Arkadiy Ugodnikov
Jonathan Farine

After about 3-hour fight GM Evgeniy Bareev emerged as a winner of this struggle with 19 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses.

Congratulations to the winners: Alex Ferreira and Jonathan Farine,
and to the players who held a draw: Konstantin Sanakoev, Tyler Longo and Pavel Rakov.

There were no losers at this event!

Everybody had a great time and thankful to Ryerson's Russian-Ukrainian Club and all people involved in the organization of this remarkable event!

[Erik Malmsten]

Being a Caro Kann player, the lecture was interesting. I've never had to play against one of his recommended lines: 3. f3 (1. e4 c6 2.d4 d5)

I've uploaded some photos of the event on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/82698797@N00/