Alexey Dreev

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. In 2011 he came first in the Cento Open.

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).