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Aleksey Dreev
Dreev 
 

Number of games in database: 3,115
Years covered: 1982 to 2025
Last FIDE rating: 2590 (2556 rapid, 2550 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2711
Overall record: +745 -290 =1122 (60.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 958 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Queen's Gambit Declined (210) 
    D37 D38 D31 D35 D39
 Queen's Indian (168) 
    E12 E17 E15 E14
 Slav (166) 
    D12 D11 D10 D14 D13
 Nimzo Indian (157) 
    E32 E34 E39 E38 E33
 Grunfeld (154) 
    D85 D92 D78 D80 D82
 King's Indian (137) 
    E81 E80 E84 E94 E61
With the Black pieces:
 Caro-Kann (374) 
    B12 B18 B13 B10 B11
 Semi-Slav (343) 
    D43 D45 D47 D44 D46
 Slav (192) 
    D12 D10 D11 D13 D15
 French Defense (131) 
    C11 C03 C07 C02 C05
 Sicilian (129) 
    B61 B30 B40 B56 B67
 French (54) 
    C11 C10 C00 C12 C13
Repertoire Explorer

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   I Sokolov vs Dreev, 2001 0-1
   Gelfand vs Dreev, 1993 0-1
   Anand vs Dreev, 1991 1/2-1/2
   Dreev vs Shirov, 1996 1-0
   Dreev vs Gleizerov, 1992 1-0
   Dreev vs I Galic, 2008 1-0
   Dreev vs Tiviakov, 2003 1-0
   Dreev vs Dominguez Perez, 2005 1-0
   Dreev vs R Cifuentes, 1995 1-0
   L Pliester vs Dreev, 1989 0-1

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (1999)
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2000)
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Junior Qualification Tournament (1988)
   European Junior Championship 1988/89 (1988)
   Hoogovens (1995)
   Pro Chess League (2018)
   Corsica Masters (2017)
   World Junior Championship (1984)
   European Junior Championship 1989/90 (1989)
   Ubeda Open (1999)
   Tata Steel Challengers (2016)
   World Cup (2005)
   USSR Young Masters Championship (1986)
   ESP-URS (1991)
   Tilburg Interpolis (1994)
   Politiken Cup (2009)
   PRO League Group Stage (2019)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Alexey Dreev: My One Hundred Best Games by Resignation Trap
   0ZeR0's collected games volume 96 by 0ZeR0
   USSR Championship 1989 by suenteus po 147
   Hoogovens 1995 by Tabanus
   a Kings Indian, Saemisch by jiisto
   Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1996 by suenteus po 147
   Biel 1995 by suenteus po 147

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 TCh-RUS Premier
   Dreev vs M Nikitenko (May-05-25) 1/2-1/2
   Dreev vs A Nesterov (May-03-25) 1/2-1/2
   Dreev vs E Khubukshanov (Apr-29-25) 1/2-1/2
   Dreev vs S Sjugirov (Apr-28-25) 1/2-1/2
   V Artemiev vs Dreev (Apr-27-25) 1-0

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ALEKSEY DREEV
(born Jan-30-1969, 56 years old) Russia
PRONUNCIATION:
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Grandmaster.

Alexey Sergeevich Dreev learned chess at the age of six and was World Under-16 Champion in 1983 and 1984. He captured the USSR Junior Championship in 1986 and achieved the grandmaster title in 1990. In 1995 he was clear first at both the Wijk aan Zee and the Biel tournaments. He reached the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Championship in 1997, and the Round of 16 in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2004. He also reached the Round of 16 in the FIDE World Cup (2005).

His ELO first touched 2700 in October 2003 when he won the Vesterhavsturneringen (Northern Tournament) GM, and again in late 2004 after he finished third in the Russian Championship (2004). He came =1st with 8/11 (9th on tiebreak) in the European Individual Championship (2013), qualifying for the World Cup (2013), where he defeated Belarussian GM Sergei Azarov in the first round and Chinese #1 GM Wang Hao in the second round. He lost to compatriot GM Dmitry Andreikin in the third round. In September he placed =2nd in the Baku Open (2013) and in October he won the 2013 Indonesian Open ahead of Alexander Moiseenko and Nigel Short with 8.5/11 (including a win on forfeit against Moiseenko).

Dreev was outright second behind Samuel Shankland at the Capablanca Memorial (2018) with 6/10.

Wikipedia article: Alexey Dreev

Last updated: 2018-05-20 04:58:50

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 page 1 of 125; games 1-25 of 3,122  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. I Zdanovs vs Dreev 0-1311982LeningradD13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
2. Y Piskov vs Dreev 1-0521982USSR Junior ChampionshipD31 Queen's Gambit Declined
3. Dreev vs Shabalov  0-1411982Sochi U16 selectionB27 Sicilian
4. Gelfand vs Dreev  0-1621982Sochi U16 selectionB40 Sicilian
5. Bareev vs Dreev  ½-½451982Sochi U16 selectionD50 Queen's Gambit Declined
6. Dreev vs A Zenin  1-0421982Sochi U16 selectionB16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation
7. Dreev vs S Savchenko  1-0361982Sochi U16 selectionB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
8. Minasian vs Dreev  0-1411982Sochi U16 selectionB23 Sicilian, Closed
9. B Anetbaev vs Dreev  0-1191983ArkalikD13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
10. Dreev vs Oll 0-1431983YaroslavlB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
11. N Kulinskiy vs Dreev  1-0751983Junior Selection TournamentD02 Queen's Pawn Game
12. I Naumkin vs Dreev  1-0361983Junior Selection TournamentA81 Dutch
13. Bareev vs Dreev  1-0261983Junior Selection TournamentA80 Dutch
14. Dreev vs P Wolff 1-0231983Wch U16C42 Petrov Defense
15. J Castillo vs Dreev 0-1281983Wch U16C50 Giuoco Piano
16. N Carr vs Dreev  0-1271983Wch U16D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
17. Martynov vs Dreev  0-1291984USSR Junior ChampionshipD44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
18. Dreev vs Smirin  ½-½511984USSR Junior ChampionshipB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
19. I Karimov vs Dreev  1-0411984USSR Junior ChampionshipD44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
20. Dreev vs Ivanchuk  1-0361984USSR Junior ChampionshipB00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
21. Dreev vs M Ulybin  1-0641984USSR Junior ChampionshipB30 Sicilian
22. Dreev vs Khalifman 0-1391984USSR Junior ChampionshipC25 Vienna
23. Dreev vs S Rachels  1-0381984World Championship (U16)B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
24. Dreev vs Ivanchuk ½-½521984World Championship (U16)A07 King's Indian Attack
25. E Rojas vs Dreev  0-1701984World Championship (U16)C41 Philidor Defense
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Jul-18-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Placed 3rd in the 3rd Mumbai Mayor's Cup Open (India) 2-10 June 2010:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr347...

Feb-16-11  paavoh: Dreev won Cento Open by tie-break, reports Chessdom.com
Feb-18-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: <Player of the Day> : <Alexey Dreev> !
Mar-24-11  suenteus po 147: Dreev wins in tiebreaks over Smirin here: Game Collection: Dos Hermanas 2001 The early '00s were good for him.
Apr-14-11  paavoh: Dreev iurrently playing a nice endgame against Movsesian in the Russian Team Championships, round 3 (see chessdom.com live games). I hope CG will soon get these high-level games in their database.
Apr-30-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: Dreev, in the past, was the player with probably the most constant results in the KO tournaments (FIDE WC/Worldcup), with the exception of "eternal" first-round losers:

1997: Quarterfinal (lost to Gelfand)
1999: Last 16 (lost to Adams)
2000: Last 16 (lost to Topalov)
2001: Last 16 (lost to Anand)
2004: Last 16 (lost to Dominguez)
2005: Last 16 (lost to Gelfand)

and the quarterfinal of 1997 was "effectively" of the same value as the round of last 16 in other competitions as the winner had to play Karpov. 2007 and 2009 he didn't participate though.

Apr-30-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: From the bio here:

<He reached the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Championship on four consecutive occasions (1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001). In late 2004 his Elo surpassed the 2700 mark after he finished third in the Russian Championships (2004).>

The first part is wrong, see the post above. The second one is wrong too, he was rated over 2700 for the first time on the October 2003 list, i.e. a year earlier

Aug-22-11  polarmis: Interview with one of the lesser-known chess players (though one who counts himself among the top-100 players of all time):

http://www.whychess.org/en/node/1485

Jan-30-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: Happy Birthday GM Dreev! Hope you get to play some more.
May-27-13  wordfunph: Dreev vs. the Benoni - The Best Move Orders for White by Alexey Dreev

http://www.newinchess.com/Dreev_vs_...

Oct-17-13  Karpova: Congratulations on winning the 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship 2013 (October 9-18, play from October 10-17) at the Grand Sahid Jaya Hotel in Jakarta. Dreev won with 8.5/11 ahead of Moiseenko and Short with 7.5 each (Moiseenko with better tie-breaks, both were followed by 7 other players with 7.5 points) and receives $20,000.

Source: http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId...

Feb-04-14  paavoh: Very solid 5.5/7 so far in the Gibraltar Open, with "win with White, draw with Black" strategy. Efficiently nurturing small advantages into the endgame.
Jan-17-16  siggemannen: Dreev back in "high" action in Tata Steel group B. Hopefully he can teach the youngers there a lesson or two. He's one of my favourite players, due to his ability to combine "classical" way of playing with very aggressive play when needed, and also being a 1.d4 and Caro player
Oct-19-18  sonia91: Great performance by Dreev in the Fall Chess Classic - Group A in St Louis!

It was a round-robin tournament, he won (at 49 y.o.!) with 6.5/9 against a field of young players, all rated 2600+. Dreev beat Lazaro Bruzon Batista, Eric Hansen, Alex Lenderman and Ray Robson: https://www.uschesschamps.com/2018-...

Dreev gained 21 rating points and at 2670 is back to the top 100.

Back in August he also won the Spilimbergo Open in Italy with 7.5/9, beating among others Jobava: http://ratings.fide.com/individual_...

Jan-22-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: Dreev turned 50, becoming the another 50+ year old on the live top 100 (along with Rausis and Gelfand).
Jan-22-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: Next candidate for a 50 year old top 100 player is Ivanchuk, who is currentl ranked 32nd and needs to keep a top 100 position till Matrch 18th.
Mar-13-21  siggemannen: No games since 2019. I guess the online-chess of today doesn't suit the old guard. Probably gonna be hard for them to make ends meet since most offline tourneys have been cancelled, hope Dreev is doing alright.
Mar-23-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  sakredkow: This is just anecdotal observation but Dreev and Korneev seem to be among the most active GMs by my database (siggemannen's comment directly above mine notwithstanding).
Jul-25-21  siggemannen: Dreev played in Russian Superleague in july, but didn't do too great: https://chess-results.com/tnr567297...

Impressively, Aleksandra Goryachkina won the right to play at the Open superfinal

Jul-29-21  siggemannen: <Dreev turned 50, becoming the another 50+ year old on the live top 100 (along with Rausis and Gelfand).>This post didn't age well :D
Jan-30-22  LoveThatJoker: Happy Birthday, GM Dreev!

I'm a big fan of your chess!

LTJ

Jan-30-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  eternaloptimist: Happy birthday to GM Dreev! It’s good to see that he’s still playing in tournaments & doing well in some of them. <LTJ> I’m a big fan of his chess also!
Feb-01-22  LoveThatJoker: <eternaloptimist> Right on!

LTJ

Feb-08-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  eternaloptimist: <LTJ> Right on indeed!
Dec-17-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  Open Defence: He is still active and playing good chess :)

I first heard of him during the Anand - Dreev match

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