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| Born | Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (1969-01-30)30 January 1969 (age 56) Stavropol,Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Soviet Union → Russia |
| Title | Grandmaster (1989) |
| FIDE rating | 2584 (November 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2711 (July 2011) |
| Peak ranking | No. 11 (January 1996) |
Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (Алексей Сергеевич Дреев, alsotransliterated asAleksey orAlexei; born 30 January 1969[1]) is a Russianchess player. He was awarded the titleGrandmaster byFIDE in 1989.[2]
While being a promising young chess talent, he was for a period coached by the world-class chess trainerMark Dvoretsky.
Dreev wasworld under 16 champion in 1983 and 1984, and theEuropean junior champion in 1988.[2] In 1989 he became a grandmaster, won a strong tournament at Moscow (+5 =5 −1) and made his first appearance in theRussian Chess Championship.[2]
In the1990–1993 world championship cycle he qualified for theCandidates Tournament at Manila 1990 Interzonal, but lost his 1991 round of sixteen match toViswanathan Anand[2] inMadras (+1 =5 −4).Then in theFIDEWorld Championship Tournaments, firstly atGroningen 1997, he reached the quarter-finals where he lost toBoris Gelfand. In the next four FIDE World Championship tournaments he was knocked out at the last sixteen stage: atLas Vegas 1999 byMichael Adams, atNew Delhi 2000 toVeselin Topalov, atMoscow 2001 toViswanathan Anand, and finally atTripoli 2004 toLeinier Domínguez.
During the 1990s, his best international tournament victories included theBiel Grandmaster Tournament (+5 =8 −0) and theHoogovens tournament (+9 =4 −1), both in 1995; in the latter, Dreev beatEvgeny Bareev by 2.5-1.5 in the final. He also won atReggio Emilia in 1995/96.
In 2000 Dreev won the 1st EuropeanBlitz Chess Championship inNeum on tiebreak overIvan Sokolov.[3]
He played in the prestigious 2002 matchRussia versus Rest of the World and contributed a plus score, although the Russian team went on to lose the match. He was the winner atDos Hermanas 2001 and atEsbjerg 2003.
Dreev's best performance in the Russian Championship was in 2004 at Moscow when he finished third (+4 =5 −2). This tournament was won byGarry Kasparov.
In 2007 he won the 5th Parsvnath Open inNew Delhi.[4] Dreev won the Magistral Casino deBarcelonaround-robin tournament in 2008.[5] In 2011 he won theCento Open on tiebreak score.[6]
Dreev won the EuropeanRapid Chess Championship of 2012 inWarsaw.[7]
In May 2013 he tied for 1st–8th withAlexander Moiseenko,Evgeny Romanov,Alexander G Beliavsky,Constantin Lupulescu,Francisco Vallejo Pons,Sergei Movsesian,Ian Nepomniachtchi,Hrant Melkumyan andEvgeny Alekseev in theEuropean Individual Chess Championship.[8] He competed in theChess World Cup 2013 inTromsø, where he reached the third round and was eliminated by the eventual runner-up,Dmitry Andreikin. Dreev knocked outSergei Azarov andWang Hao in rounds one and two respectively.
In October of the same year, Dreev won the 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship inJakarta.[9]
In January 2016, Dreev tied withBaskaran Adhiban andEltaj Safarli for first place in the Tata Steel Challengers Tournament inWijk aan Zee. However, because of his better tiebreak, Adhiban qualified for the followingTata Steel Masters Tournament.[10] In 2018 Dreev won the Fall Chess Classic A tournament inSt. Louis, US with a score of 6½/9, one point ahead of the nearest follower,Lázaro Bruzón.[11]
He has represented Russia in fiveChess Olympiads between 1992 and 2004, with the Russian team winning gold medals in 1992, 1994, and 1996, and silver in 2004. His combined score from those events is +15 =23 −6 (60.2%).[12]
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