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Full name | Evgeny Agrest |
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Country | Sweden |
Born | August 15, 1966 Vitebsk, Soviet Union |
Title | Grandmaster (1997) |
Peak rating | 2616 (January 2004) |
Evgeny Agrest (born 15 August 1966, Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian-Swedish chess grandmaster (1997).
He won the Belarus Youth championship three times. In 1994, he graduated with a degree in Economics and in the same year emigrated to Sweden. He was four-time Swedish Champion (1998, 2001, 2003, and 2004), and thrice Nordic Champion (2001 jointly with Artur Kogan, 2003 jointly with Curt Hansen, and 2005). He played for Sweden in Chess Olympiads in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.
Agrest is married to Woman International Master (WIM) Svetlana Agrest.