Alexei Dreev
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| Full name | Alexei Sergeyevich Dreev |
| Country | Russia |
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30 January 1969 Stavropol, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster (1989) |
| FIDE rating | 2651 (March 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2711 (July 2011) |
Alexey Dreev (Russian: Алексей Дреев; born 30 January 1969) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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. In 1989 he became a grandmaster, won a strong tournament at Moscow +5 =5 −1 and made his first appearance in the Russian Championship.
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 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 Dominguez.
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