Handszar Odeev | |
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Country | Turkmenistan |
Born | 27 January 1972 |
Title | Grandmaster (2004) |
Peak rating | 2502 (January 2006) |
Handszar Odeev (born 27 January 1972) is a Turkmen chess grandmaster (2004).
He played a record seven times (first time, at the age of 12) in the Soviet Union Junior Chess Championships: in 1984, [1] 1985, [2] 1986, [3] 1987, [4] 1988, [5] 1989 [6] and 1990. [7] Played for Turkmenistan in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2010 [8] and in the Asian Team Chess Championship of 2003. [9] In October 1999, he tied for 2nd–10th with Eduardas Rozentalis, Ian Rogers, Vereslav Eingorn, Giorgi Giorgadze, Vlastimil Jansa, Christian Bauer, Konstantin Lerner and Alexander Shabalov in the 5th Wichern-Open tournament in Hamburg, with 30 grandmasters participating. [10]
In the March 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2405, making him Turkmenistan's number six.
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