Evgeniy Najer is a Russia

Russia

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Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster. In 2002 he shared the victory of the U.S. Open Chess Championship

U.S. Open Chess Championship

The U.S. Open Championship is an open national chess championship that has been held in the United States annually since 1900.-History:Through 1938, the tournaments were organized by the Western Chess Association and its successor, the American Chess Federation .The United States Chess Federation ...

 with Gennadi Zaichik and in 2003 won the Moscow City Chess Championship

Moscow City Chess Championship

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He tied for 1st-6th with Kaido Külaots

Kaido Külaots

Kaido Külaots is an Estonian chess Grandmaster .He won Estonian Chess Championship in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010 and played for Estonia in the Chess Olympiads of 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008....

, Artyom Timofeev

Artyom Timofeev

Artyom Timofeev is a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won the European Youth Chess Championship for U18 in 2000. He tied for 1st-6th with Evgeniy Najer, Kaido Külaots, Zoltan Gyimesi, Sergey Grigoriants and Oleg Korneev at the Cappelle-la-Grande Open 2004...

, Zoltan Gyimesi

Zoltan Gyimesi

Zoltán Gyimesi is a Hungarian chess player. He has participated in 4 Chess Olympiads 1998, 2002-2006 with a record of +11=18-4. In 2002 at the 35th Chess Olympiad, the Hungarian team won the silver medal with Gyimesi on the fourth board...

, Sergey Grigoriants and Oleg Korneev at the Cappelle-la-Grande Open

Cappelle-la-Grande Open

The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985.It has become over the years one of the strongest opens in the world, after the Aeroflot Open of Moscow...

 2004. In the same year he tied for 1st-3rd with Michael Roiz

Michael Roiz

Michael Roiz is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.He learned to play chess at the age of 7. At the age of 9, he finished 2nd in the national championship under-10 category...

 and Leonid Gofshtein

Leonid Gofshtein

Leonid Gofshtein is an Israeli chess grandmaster.In 1999 he tied for 1st-5th with Mikhail Gurevich, Aleksandar Berelovich, Sergei Tiviakov and Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the open section of the Hoogeveen International tournament...

 in the Ashdod Chess Festival. In 2007 he tied for 1st-2nd with Vasily Yemelin in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament. In both 2008 and 2009 he won the World Open

World Open chess tournament

The World Open chess tournament is an annual open chess tournament played in most editions in Philadelphia and some editions in New York. The inaugural event was a huge success played in New York in 1973 with 732 participants, and was won by Walter Browne....

 in Philadelphia. In July 2009, he tied for first with Robert Fontaine in the Paleohora Open Tournament. In 2010, he tied for 2nd-5th with Michael Adams, Victor Mikhalevski

Victor Mikhalevski

Victor Mikhalevski is an Israeli chess grandmaster who lives in Beer Sheva. his Elo rating was 2611, making him the #7 player in Israel and the 171st-highest rated player in the world...

 and Jiri Stocek the 14th Chicago

Chicago

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 Open.

He was one of the seconds of Gata Kamsky

Gata Kamsky

Gata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. He is also the current United States Chess Champion. As of September 2011, he is rated No. 1 in the United States and No...

 in his 2009 match against Veselin Topalov

Veselin Topalov

Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....

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