- Alexey Dreev
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Alexei Dreev 
Full name Alexei Sergeyevich Dreev Country 
RussiaBorn 30 January 1969
Stavropol, RussiaTitle Grandmaster FIDE rating 2711
(No. 34 in the September 2011 FIDE World Rankings)Peak rating 2711 (July 2011) Alexey Dreev (Russian: Алексей Дреев; born 1969) is a chess grandmaster from Russia. His career peak Elo rating was 2705, attained in October 2003 and again in April 2005. He qualified for the Candidates Tournament in 1991, but lost his Quarter Final match to Viswanathan Anand in Madras (+1 =5 -4).
Then in the FIDE World Championship Tournaments, firstly in Groningen in 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: in 1999 at Las Vegas by Michael Adams, in 2000 at New Delhi to Veselin Topalov, in 2001 at Moscow to Viswanathan Anand, and finally in 2004 at Tripoli to Leinier Dominguez.
His best performance in the Russian Chess Championship was in 2004 which was held in Moscow, when he finished third (+4 =5 -2). This tournament was won by Garry Kasparov.
His best tournament victories were at the Biel chess tournament in 1995 (+5 =8 -0), and at the Corus chess tournament also in 1995 (+9 =4 -1). In 2007 he won the 5th Parsvnath Open in New Delhi.[1] In 2011 he came first in the Cento Open.[2]
He has represented Russia in five Chess Olympiads between 1992-2004. His combined score from those events was +15 =22 -6 (60.5%).
While being a promising young chess talent, he was for a period coached by the world-class chess trainer Mark Dvoretsky.
In 2007 he wrote the book My One Hundred Best Games (in short-list of "Chess Book of the Year"). Then followed the books "The Moscow&Anti-Moscow Variations. An Insider's view" (2010) and "The Meran and Anti-meran for Black. An Insider's view" (2011).
Notable games
- Alexey Dreev-Gata Kamsky Kazakhstan 1987 Ponziani opening 1-0 56 moves.[3]
- Alexey Dreev-Viswanathan Anand Candidates match game 3 1991 Queen's Indian defence 1-0 46 moves.[4]
- Loek Van Wely-Alexey Dreev World cup 2005 Semi-Slav defence 0-1 91 moves.[5]
- Alexander Morozevich-Alexey Dreev Russian Superfinals 2007 Sicilian defence 0-1 49 moves.[6]
References
- ^ Crowther, Mark (2007-01-22). "TWIC 637: 5th Parsvnath Open". London Chess Center. http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic637.html#10. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
- ^ Crowther, Mark. "The Week in Chess: 1st Cento Open 2011". Chess.co.uk. http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/1st-cento-open-2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
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External links
- FIDE rating card for Alexey Dreev
- Alexey Dreev player profile at ChessGames.com
Categories:- 1969 births
- Chess grandmasters
- World Youth Chess Champions
- Chess Olympiad competitors
- Russian chess players
- Soviet chess players
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