Evgeny Agrest

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Evgeny Agrest
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at the Dresden Olympiad, 2008
Country Soviet Union (until 1992)
Belarus (1992–1996)
Sweden (since 1997) [1]
Born (1966-08-15) August 15, 1966 (age 57)
Vitebsk, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster (1997)
FIDE   rating 2553 (April 2024)
Peak rating 2616 (January 2004)
Peak rankingNo. 82 (January 2000)

Evgeny Agrest (born 15 August 1966 in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Soviet-born Swedish chess grandmaster (1997).

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In 1994, he graduated with a degree in Economics and in the same year emigrated to Sweden. He is four-time Swedish champion (1998, 2001, 2003, and 2004), and thrice Nordic champion (2001 jointly with Artur Kogan, [2] 2003 jointly with Curt Hansen, [3] and 2005 [4] ). In 2010 Agrest tied for 1st–6th in the European Union Championship, taking third place on tiebreak. He played for Sweden in the Chess Olympiads of 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2014. [5]

As of August 2015, he has been Nils Grandelius's trainer since 2013. [6]

Agrest is married to Woman International Master (WIM) Svetlana Agrest [7] with both his wife and his daughter playing for the Swedish Women's chess team.

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