Alexey Dreev

Alexei Sergeyevich Drejew (Russian Алексей Сергеевич Дреев, scientific transliteration Aleksej Sergeevič Dreev, the World Chess Federation FIDE Aleksey Dreev; born January 30, 1969 in Stavropol ) is a Russian chess player.

Drejew learned as a 6 -year-old to play chess from his father. At age 8, he was coached by Vladimir Saigin, with 11 years of Mark Dworezki. The early promotion was rapid fruit. Drejew won the Junior World Championships for Cadets, today's U16 World Cup, twice in a row: 1983 in Bucaramanga (Colombia ) with 10 out of 11 and 2.5 points ahead and 1984 in Champigny -sur- Marne. In 1984, he participated as a representative of the Soviet Union also participated in the Youth World Cup U20 Finnish Kiljava and became vice - world champion. At the tournament young Soviet champion in Tallinn in 1986, he finished second behind Vasyl Ivanchuk. In 1988 he was, together with Boris Gelfand Youth European Champion in Arnhem. In 1990, he won together with Alexei Shirov, Leonid Judassin and Smbat Lputjan the zone tournament of Lviv and qualified for the Interzonal in Manila. There he was fifth and ventured into the candidates fighting.

He lost in the second round in 1991 to eventual world champion Viswanathan Anand in Madras significantly with 1,5:4,5 ( 1, -4, = 5) and retired. After the FIDE had abolished the candidates tournament, Drejew took the Knockout World Championship in Groningen 1997 (resigned against Boris Gelfand in the quarterfinals ) in Las Vegas 1999 (retired in the second round against Michael Adams), in New Delhi 2000 (resigned against Vesselin Topalov in the second round ), Moscow 2001 ( again the second round was terminus: Drejew lost to Viswanathan Anand ) and Tripoli in 2004 ( he came back not on the knockout stages also: Leinier Domínguez from Cuba turned it part of ). His greatest successes in international tournaments are the victories in Biel / Bienne 1995 Wijk aan Zee 1995, and Dos Hermanas in 2002 and 2003.

Drejew is a great connoisseur of opening theory and has a very solid position style that is highly valued in team fights. As a representative of Russia, he participated in the Chess Olympiads in Moscow 1994, Yerevan 1996, Elista 1998 and last in 2004 Calvià part. In the Championship of Russia in 2004 he finished third. He had his best world ranking of No. 11 in July 1995.

Private

Drejew is married and has two children.

Publications

  • Meran Variation D47 - D49 (CD), ChessBase, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-935602-06-5
  • My one hundred best games. Chess Stars, Sofia 2007. ISBN 978-954-8782-55-5
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