Alexei Sergejewitsch Drejew

Alexei Drejew, 2008
Association	Russia
Born	January 30, 1969 Stavropol
title	International Master (1988) Grand Master (1989)
Current  Elo rating	2655 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2711 (July 2011)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

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

Life

Drejew learned to play chess from his father when he was 6 years old. At the age of 8 he was trained by Vladimir Saigin and at 11 by Mark Dvoretski . The early extraction showed rapid fruit. Drejew won the Cadet Youth World Championship, today's U16 World Championship, twice in a row: 1983 in Bucaramanga ( Colombia ) with 10 out of 11 and 2.5 points and in 1984 in Champigny-sur-Marne . In 1984, he participated as a representative of the Soviet Union and at the World Youth Championships U20 Finnish Kiljava part and was vice-champion. At the tournament of young Soviet champions in Tallinn in 1986, he was second behind Vasyl Ivanchuk . At the beginning of 1989 he won the European Youth Championship in Arnhem due to a better evaluation before Boris Gelfand . On January 2, 1990, he was runner-up behind Gregorij Serper.

In 1990, he won together with Alexei Shirov , Leonid Judassin and smbat lputian the zone tournament of Lviv and qualified for the Interzonal in Manila . There he finished fifth and advanced into the candidate fights. He lost in 1991 in the round of 16 against Viswanathan Anand in Madras with 1.5: 4.5 (+1 = 1 −4) and was eliminated.

After FIDE abolished the Candidates Tournament , Drejew took part in several knockout world championships . In Groningen 1997 he reached the quarter-finals and lost there to Boris Gelfand . In later attempts he was always eliminated in the second round: in Las Vegas 1999 against Michael Adams , in New Delhi 2000 against Wesselin Topalow , in Moscow 2001 against Viswanathan Anand and in Tripoli 2004 against Leinier Domínguez . His greatest successes in international tournaments are the victories in Biel / Bienne in 1995, Wijk aan Zee in 1995 and Dos Hermanas in 2002 and 2003. He was several times among the top 20 in the world rankings.

Drejew is well versed in opening theory and has an extremely solid positional style that is highly valued in team fights. At the championship of Russia in 2004 he was third. He had with 11th place in July 1995. Drejew took his best world ranking in 2005 and 2013 at the Chess World Cup in part. He reached the round of 16 in 2005 and the third round in 2013.

Elo development

Private

Drejew is married and has two children.

Team chess

National team

Drejew took part with the Russian national team in the chess Olympiad in 1992 , 1994 , 1996 , 1998 (on the top board of the second team) and 2004 , he won them in 1992, 1994 and 1996. He was also at the team world championships in 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2005 Russian squad (and won them in 1997 and 2005), as well as at the European Team Championships in 1992 (which Russia won) and 2005.

societies

In the Russian team championship , Drejew played for Kazan from 1995 to 1998 and 2014 , in 1999 for Chimik Beloretschensk , 2000 for Maykop University , 2003 and 2004 for Norilski Nikel Norilsk , 2005 to 2009 for Ural Yekaterinburg , 2011 to 2013 for Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk . He became the Russian team champion in 1998, 1999, 2006 and 2008. In France, Drejew played for Echiquier Niçois until 2002 and for Mulhouse Philidor from 2006 to 2012 . In Switzerland, Drejew was registered with SK Réti Zurich from 2010 to 2014 and won the National League A (chess) in 2011 and the Bundesliga in 2012/13 . Drejew won the British Four Nations Chess League with Wood Green in 2006 and the Czech Extra League with ŠK Lokomotiva MONING Brno in 1995 . In the Spanish team championship , he played for CA Reverté Albox from 2005 to 2011 and became champions with this in 2005 . He has also played in the Chinese team championship (for Zhejiang ) and in the Swedish Elitserien (for Helsingborgs ASK ). Drejew took part in 19 events of the European Club Cup and won it in 1990 with CSKA Moscow , 1996 with Sberbank Tatarstan Kazan and in 2008 with Ural Oblast Sverdlovsk .

Publications

• Defense of Merano 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 .

Web links

Commons : Alexei Drejew  - collection of images

• Drejew's homepage
• Alexei Sergejewitsch Drejew at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Wahls : Soviet double success at EM . JugendSchach Nr. 1 / February '89, pp. 3–6 (report, table and games).
2. ↑ Markus Stangl : Gregorij Serper European Champion . JugendSchach issue 1/1990, pp. 3–5 (report, table and games).
3. ↑ Elo query
4. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
5. ↑ Alexei Drejew's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Alexei Drejew's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Alexei Drejew's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Alexei Drejev's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Alexei Drejew's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Alexei Drejew's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)