{{short description|Russian chess grandmaster (born 1969)|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{family name hatnote|Sergeyevich|Dreev|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox chess player | name = Alexey Dreev | image = Alexey Dreev 2012.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev | country = Soviet Union → Russia | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|1|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Stavropol, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place = | title = Grandmaster (1989) | worldchampion = | peakrating = 2711 (July 2011) | peakranking = No. 11 (January 1996) <!-- https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo199601e.html --> | FideID = 4100107 }} '''Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev''' ({{lang|ru|Алексей Сергеевич Дреев}}, also transliterated as '''Aleksey''' or '''Alexei'''; born 30 January 1969<ref>{{citation | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography | publisher=McFarland | isbn=0-7864-2353-6 | page=98}}</ref>) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989.<ref name="Hooper&Whyld" />
==Career== While being a promising young chess talent, he was for a period coached by the world-class chess trainer Mark Dvoretsky.
Dreev was world under 16 champion in 1983 and 1984, and the European junior champion in 1988.<ref name="Hooper&Whyld">{{citation | last1=Hooper | first1=David | author1-link=David Vincent Hooper | last2=Whyld | first2=Kenneth | author2-link=Kenneth Whyld | year=1992 | title=The Oxford Companion to Chess | edition=2 | publisher=Oxford University Press | isbn=0-19-280049-3 | page=115}}</ref> In 1989 he became a grandmaster, won a strong tournament at Moscow (+5 =5 −1) and made his first appearance in the Russian Chess Championship.<ref name="Hooper&Whyld" />
In the 1990–1993 world championship cycle he qualified for the Candidates Tournament at Manila 1990 Interzonal, but lost his 1991 round of sixteen match to Viswanathan Anand<ref name="Hooper&Whyld" /> in Madras (+1 =5 −4). Then in the FIDE World Championship Tournaments, firstly at Groningen 1997, he reached the quarter-finals where he lost to Boris Gelfand. In the next four FIDE World Championship tournaments he was knocked out at the last sixteen stage: at Las Vegas 1999 by Michael Adams, at New Delhi 2000 to Veselin Topalov, at Moscow 2001 to Viswanathan Anand, and finally at Tripoli 2004 to Leinier Domínguez.
During the 1990s, his best international tournament victories included the Biel Grandmaster Tournament (+5 =8 −0) and the Hoogovens tournament (+9 =4 −1), both in 1995; in the latter, Dreev beat Evgeny Bareev by 2.5-1.5 in the final. He also won at Reggio Emilia in 1995/96.
In 2000 Dreev won the 1st European Blitz Chess Championship in Neum on tiebreak over Ivan Sokolov.<ref>{{cite web|last=Crowther|first=Mark|title=TWIC 309: 1st European Rapid Championships|url=http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic309.html#5|publisher=The Week in Chess|access-date=9 January 2016|date=9 October 2000}}</ref>
He played in the prestigious 2002 match Russia versus Rest of the World and contributed a plus score, although the Russian team went on to lose the match. He was the winner at Dos Hermanas 2001 and at Esbjerg 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 by Garry Kasparov.
In 2007 he won the 5th Parsvnath Open in New Delhi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic637.html#10 |title=TWIC 637: 5th Parsvnath Open |last=Crowther |first=Mark |date=22 January 2007|publisher=London Chess Center |access-date=31 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930232407/https://chess.co.uk/twic/twic637.html |archive-date=30 September 2011 }}</ref> Dreev won the Magistral Casino de Barcelona round-robin tournament in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alexey Dreev Secures First Place in Barcelona|url=http://tournaments.chessdom.com/magistral-casino-de-barcelona-2008|publisher=Chessdom|access-date=4 November 2015|date=10 November 2008|archive-date=25 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125074057/http://tournaments.chessdom.com/magistral-casino-de-barcelona-2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011 he won the Cento Open on tiebreak score.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic849.html#3|title=The Week in Chess 849|website=theweekinchess.com|access-date=4 November 2016}}</ref>
Dreev won the European Rapid Chess Championship of 2012 in Warsaw.<ref>{{cite web|title=European Rapid Chess Championship 2012: Aleksey Dreev is the winner|url=http://www.chessdom.com/european-rapid-chess-championship-2012-aleksey-dreev-is-the-winner/|publisher=Chessdom|access-date=9 October 2015|date=17 December 2012}}</ref>
In May 2013 he tied for 1st–8th with Alexander Moiseenko, Evgeny Romanov, Alexander G Beliavsky, Constantin Lupulescu, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Sergei Movsesian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Hrant Melkumyan and Evgeny Alekseev in the European Individual Chess Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theweekinchess.com/chessnews/events/14th-european-individual-championships-2013|title=14th European Individual Championships 2013|last=Crowther|first=Mark|date=16 May 2013|publisher=The Week in Chess|access-date=18 May 2013}}</ref> He competed in the Chess World Cup 2013 in Tromsø, where he reached the third round and was eliminated by the eventual runner-up, Dmitry Andreikin. Dreev knocked out Sergei Azarov and Wang Hao in rounds one and two respectively.
In October of the same year, Dreev won the 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship in Jakarta.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId/211/PostId/4011565/dreev-wins-indonesia-open-2013-171013.aspx|title=Dreev wins Indonesia Open 2013|date=17 October 2013|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=17 October 2013}}</ref>
In January 2016, Dreev tied with Baskaran Adhiban and Eltaj Safarli for first place in the Tata Steel Challengers Tournament in Wijk aan Zee. However, because of his better tiebreak, Adhiban qualified for the following Tata Steel Masters Tournament.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theweekinchess.com/chessnews/events/78th-tata-steel-masters-2016|title=78th Tata Steel Masters 2016|website=The Week in Chess|access-date=22 April 2019}}</ref> In 2018 Dreev won the Fall Chess Classic A tournament in St. Louis, US with a score of 6½/9, one point ahead of the nearest follower, Lázaro Bruzón.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chessdom.com/aleksey-dreev-convincing-in-saint-louis/|title=Aleksey Dreev convincing in Saint Louis|date=20 October 2018|publisher=Chessdom|access-date=22 April 2019}}</ref>
He has represented Russia in five Chess 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%).<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org/players/qi2wkoyd.html Alexei Dreev] team chess record at Olimpbase.org</ref>
==Books== *{{cite book|last=Dreev|first=Alexey|title=My One Hundred Best Games|date=2007|publisher=Chess Stars|isbn=978-9548782555}} *{{cite book|last=Dreev|first=Alexey|title=The Moscow & Anti-Moscow Variations. An Insider's View|date=2010|publisher=Chess Stars|isbn=978-9548782746}} *{{cite book|last=Dreev|first=Alexey|title=The Meran & Anti-Meran Variations. An Insider's View|date=2011|publisher=Chess Stars|isbn=978-9548782807}} *{{cite book|last=Dreev|first=Alexey|title=Dreev vs. the Benoni|date=2013|publisher=Chess Stars|isbn=978-9548782920}} *{{cite book|last=Dreev|first=Alexey|title=Anti-Spanish. The Cozio Defence|date=2014|publisher=Chess Stars|isbn=978-6197188011}} *{{cite book|last=Dreev|first=Alexey|title=Attacking the Caro-Kann|date=2015|publisher=Chess Stars|isbn=978-6197188042}} *{{cite book|last=Dreev|first=Alexey|title=Bf4 in the Queen's Gambit and the Exchange Slav|date=2016|publisher=Chess Stars|isbn=978-6197188080}} *{{cite book|last=Dreev|first=Alexey|title=Improve Your Practical Play in the Middlegame|date=2018|publisher=Thinkers Publishing|isbn=978-9492510310}} *{{cite book|last=Dreev|first=Alexey|title=Improve Your Practical Play in the Endgame|date=2019|publisher=Thinkers Publishing|isbn=978-9492510594}}
== Notable games == * Alexey Dreev-Gata Kamsky Kazakhstan 1987 Ponziani opening 1-0 56 moves.<ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1038963 chessgames.com]</ref> * Alexey Dreev-Viswanathan Anand Candidates match game 3 1991 Queen's Indian defence 1-0 46 moves.<ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018225 chessgames.com]</ref> * Loek van Wely-Alexey Dreev World cup 2005 Semi-Slav defence 0-1 91 moves.<ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1379698 chessgames.com]</ref> * Alexander Morozevich-Alexey Dreev Russian Superfinals 2007 Sicilian defence 0-1 49 moves.<ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1481034 chessgames.com]</ref> * Sam A Schmakel-Alexey Dreev Millionaire Chess 2014 Slav defence modern line 0-1 39 moves.<ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1775302 chessgames.com]</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{FIDE|name=Aleksey Dreev}} * {{Chessgames.com player|12136|Aleksey Dreev}} * {{365Chess.com player|Aleksey_Dreev}} * {{Chess.com player|aleksey-dreev|Aleksey Dreev|member=Igrok3069}}
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