Bareev was
world under 16 champion in 1982. His greatest success was winning the elite
Corus Tournament at
Wijk aan Zee in 2002. At this event he scored 9/13 points, ahead of top players such as
Alexander Grischuk,
Michael Adams,
Alexander Morozevich, and
Peter Leko. Bareev was a three-time winner of the Premier Tournament at the annual
Hastings Chess Congress in 1990/91, 1991/92 and 1992/93, shared with
Judit Polgár; the event was then still staged as an invitational tournament in
round-robin format. He also won the strong
Enghien-les-Bains tournament held in France in 2003. In a man versus 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 the
Classical World Chess Championship 2000 against
Garry Kasparov. With Ilya Levitov, Bareev wrote
From London to Elista, a book on the championship as well as Kramnik's subsequent championship matches against Peter Leko and
Veselin Topalov; it received the Book of the Year award from the English Chess Federation in 2008. Bareev was a finalist of the World Cup 2000, where he lost to
Viswanathan Anand, and of the
Rapid World Cup 2001, where he lost to Kasparov. His most notable participation in
World Chess Championship events was the
Candidates Tournament for the
Classical World Chess Championship 2004 in
Dortmund 2002. Bareev reached the semifinals, but lost his match against Topalov. At the
Chess World Cup 2005, Bareev qualified for the
Candidates Tournament for the
World Chess Championship 2007, played in May–June 2007. He won his match against Judit Polgár (+2-1=3), but was eliminated after losing his second-round match to Peter Leko (+0-2=3). In 2010, he tied for first with
Konstantin Chernyshov,
Lê Quang Liêm and
Ernesto Inarkiev in the Moscow Open. In 2015, Bareev, who had moved to
Toronto in 2006,
transferred his FIDE membership from the Russian to the Canadian Chess Federation. In 2019, he won the
Canadian Zonal Championship, thereby qualifying for the
FIDE World Cup. He lost to
Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the first round. Bareev shared equal first with
Razvan Preotu at the 2021 Zonal Championship. At the World Cup, he defeated
Daniel Quizon in the first round, but then lost to
Aryan Tari. Best results: • 1982 Guayaquil (U16 World Ch.) – 1st place • 1985 Kharkov (USSR Ch., 1st league) – 1st place • 1986 Kiev (USSR Ch.) – 2nd – 7th place • 1986 Gausdal (U20 World Ch.) – 3rd – 5th place • 1987 Vrnjacka Banja – 1st – 2nd place • 1988 Budapest – 1st place • 1989 Trnava – 1st place • 1989 Moscow (Ch.) – 1st place • 1990 Rome Open – 2nd – 6th place • 1990 Dortmund Open – 1st place • 1990 Leningrad (USSR Ch.) – 1st – 4th place • 1990/91 Hastings – 1st place • 1991 Biel – 2nd place • 1991 Bled/Rogaska Slatina – 2nd place • 1991/92 Hastings – 1st place • 1992 Dortmund – 3rd place • 1992/93 Hastings – 1st – 2nd place • 1994 Pardubice GM – 1st place • 1994 Tilburg – 2nd place • 1995 Wijk-aan-Zee – 2nd place • 1995 Leon – 1st – 2nd place • 1995 Elista (Russian Ch.) – 1st -5th place • 1996 Belgrade (terminated after first leg) – 1st place • 1996 Vienna Open – 1st – 8th place • 1997 Elista (Russian Ch.) – 2nd place • 1999 Sarajevo Bosna – 2nd – 3rd place • 2000 Montecatini Terme – 2nd place • 2000 Shenyang, FIDE World Cup – 2nd place • 2001 Cannes, World Cup (rapid) – 2nd place • 2002 Dortmund (Einstein Candidates) – semifinals • 2002 Moscow, Russia – The World (Rapid) – 1st-2nd result for Team Russia • 2002 Wijk aan Zee – 1st place • 2002 Warsaw (rapid) – 1st place • 2003 Wijk-aan-Zee – 3rd place • 2003 Enghien-les-Bains – 1st place • 2003 Моnaco (rapid) – 1st place • 2004 Monaco (rapid) – 2nd place • 2005 Kazan (Russian Ch., Major League) – 1st – 2nd place • 2006 Poikovsky – 2nd – 5th place • 2006 Havana, Capablanca Memorial – 2nd place • 2008 Leon (rapid) – 1st place • 2009 Saint Petersburg (Russian Cup) – 1st place • 2010 Moscow-open – 1st – 4th place • 2019 Canadian Zonal Championship - 1st place • 2021 Canadian Zonal Championship - 1st - 2nd place
Team competitions Bareev was a member of the Soviet national team at the
1990 Chess Olympiad and of the Russian national team at the
Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2006. He won the team gold medal in 1990, 1994, 1996 and 1998. He played on the Canadian team at the Olympiads in 2016 and 2018. Bareev is also a two-time winner of the
World Team Chess Championship (1997, 2005) and a two-time winner of the
European Team Chess Championship (1992, 2003). Bareev is a four-time winner of the
European Club Cup with three clubs: Lion of
France (1994), Ladia of Russia (1997) and Bosna of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999, 2000). ==Trainer==