Dmitry Vladimirovich Andreikin (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Андрейкин, born 5 February 1990) is a Russian
chess
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Russian Chess Champion
The Russian Chess Championship has taken various forms.
Winners by year (men) Imperial Russia
In 1874, Emanuel Schiffers defeated Andrey Chardin in a match held in St. Petersburg with five wins and four losses. Schiffers was considered the first ...
(2012 and 2018). He won the
Tashkent
Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of ...
leg of
FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15
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and finished runners-up in
Chess World Cup 2013
The Chess World Cup 2013 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, played between 11 August and 2 September 2013, in the hotel Scandic Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway. It was won by Vladimir Kramnik, who defeated Dmitry Andreikin 2½–1 ...
and
Belgrade
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leg of
FIDE Grand Prix 2022
The FIDE Grand Prix 2022 was a series of three chess tournaments played between 4 February and 4 April 2022. The top two finishers – Hikaru Nakamura (winner) and Richárd Rapport (runner-up) – qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2022,
.
Chess career
Andreikin won the Under-10 division of the
World Youth Chess Championship
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s in 1999.
He tied for 1st–3rd places with
Konstantin Chernyshov
Konstantin Valeryevich Chernyshov (russian: Константин Валерьевич Чернышов, born June 11, 1967) is a Russian chess grandmaster (2000).
In 2008 he tied for 1st–8th with Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Yuriy Kryvoru ...
Lipetsk
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2006. In 2008, he won the 4th Inautomarket Open in
Minsk
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Denis Yevseev
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People
* Saint Denis of Paris, 3rd-century Christian martyr and first bishop of Paris
* Denis the Areopagite, Biblical figure
* Denis, son of Ampud (died 1236), baron in the Kingdom of Hungary
* Denis the Carthusian (1402– ...
,
Vasily Yemelin
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Yemelin won the championship of Saint Petersburg three times, in 1993, 2002 and 2011. He participated in two Chess Olympiads, ...
and
Eltaj Safarli
Eltaj Safarli ( az, Eltac Səfərli; born 18 May 1992 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster. In October 2016, he reached his all-time-highest rating of 2694 and was ranked as No. 3 in Azerbaijan and No. 46 in the world.
He entered tourn ...
in the
Chigorin Memorial
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. In 2009, he tied for 1st–3rd with
Yuriy Kuzubov
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2010s
He won the 2010
World Junior Chess Championship
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The idea was the brainchild of William Rits ...
in Chotowa, Poland.
In the same year, he tied for 2nd–7th with
Alexey Dreev
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Career
While being a promising young chess talent, he was for a period ...
Vladimir Fedoseev
Vladimir Vasilyevich Fedoseev (russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Федосе́ев; born 16 February 1995) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2015, 2017, and 2021.
Career
Fedoseev tied for ...
Konstantin Sakaev
Konstantin Rufovich Sakaev (russian: Константи́н Ру́фович Сака́ев; born 13 April 1974 in Leningrad) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (1993), chess author and Russian champion in 1999. Sakaev is on the staff of the Grandmas ...
in the
Chigorin Memorial
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. In 2011, he tied for 2nd–3rd with
Emil Sutovsky
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in the
Baku
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Maxim Rodshtein
Maxim Rodshtein ( he, מקסים רודשטיין, russian: Максим Эдуардович Родштейн, translit=Maksim Eduardovich Rodshtein; born 19 January 1989) is an Israeli chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 20 ...
,
Fabiano Caruana
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and
Hrant Melkumyan
Hrant Melkumyan ( hy, Հրանտ Մելքումյան; born April 30, 1989, in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and European Blitz Champion in 2011.
Chess career
He won the international Internet championship organized by the ICC ches ...
in the 11th
Aeroflot Open The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament; in 2013 it was converted to a rapid
Rapids are sections ...
.
In August 2012, Andreikin won the 65th Russian Chess Championship in Moscow after winning a rapid playoff against five other players. In the
Tal Memorial
The Tal Memorial is an annual chess tournament played in Moscow from 2006 to 2018 with the exception of 2015, to honour the memory of the former World Champion Mikhail Tal (1936–1992).
Many of the world's strongest players compete. In 2014 it w ...
played in June 2013, Andreikin was the lowest rated player, but he went through the tournament undefeated with eight draws and a win against Vladimir Kramnik, which gave him a shared third to fifth place.
In the
Chess World Cup 2013
The Chess World Cup 2013 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, played between 11 August and 2 September 2013, in the hotel Scandic Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway. It was won by Vladimir Kramnik, who defeated Dmitry Andreikin 2½–1 ...
, held in Norway from 11 August to 2 September, Andreikin finished in second place, losing to Kramnik in the four-game final match 1½–2½. This result qualified him for the
2014 Candidates Tournament
The World Chess Championship 2014 was a match between the world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand, to determine the World Chess Champion. It was held from 7 to 25 November 2014, under the auspices of the World Chess Federat ...
, where he finished equal 3rd-5th out of 8 players, with a score of 7/14. this is the only time he has qualified for the Candidates.
In October–November 2014 he scored a major success in the second leg of the
FIDE Grand Prix
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in
Tashkent
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, winning the tournament ahead of
Hikaru Nakamura
Christopher Hikaru NakamuraShakhriyar Mamedyarov
Shahriyar Hamid oghlu Mammadyarov ( az, Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov; born 12 April 1985), known internationally as Shakhriyar Mamedyarov , is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. he is ranked No. 1 in Azerbaijan and No. 13 in the world. ...
, Fabiano Caruana and eight other elite grandmasters. His score of 7/11 gave him a performance rating of 2852. However his other Grand Prix results were not as good, and he was knocked out of the
Chess World Cup 2015
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Sergey Karjakin won the competition on tie-breaks after a four-game final ...
in round of 16 by eventual winner
Sergey Karjakin
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Stockholm
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, the
Abu Dhabi
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...
Chess Festival and the European
Blitz Chess
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Championship in
Tallinn
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. In 2017, he won the gold medal in the men's
rapid chess
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Huai'an
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, China.
In 2018, Andreikin won the 71st Russian Chess Championship for the second time in his career after beating
Dmitry Jakovenko
Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko (russian: Дмитрий Олегович Яковенко; born 28 June 1983) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001. Jakovenko was European champion in 2012. He was a member ...
in a rapid playoff.
In 2019, Andreikin won a match against Ding Liren with a (+1-0=3) score.
2020s
Through February and March 2022, Andreikin played in the
FIDE Grand Prix 2022
The FIDE Grand Prix 2022 was a series of three chess tournaments played between 4 February and 4 April 2022. The top two finishers – Hikaru Nakamura (winner) and Richárd Rapport (runner-up) – qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2022,
. In the second leg, he won his group with a 4/6 result and defeated Anish Giri in the semifinals with a 2.5/4 result in classical and rapid time formats. He was defeated by Richard Rápport in the finals with a 0.5/2 result. He withdrew from the remainder of the Grand Prix due to personal reasons. He finished the tournament fifth in the standings with ten points.
In 2022, Andreikin won 10 Titled Tuesday events held on
Chess.com
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and reached the finals of Chess.com Rapid Chess Championship losing to
Ian Nepomniachtchi
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in the finals after defeating
Hikaru Nakamura
Christopher Hikaru NakamuraWesley So
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and
Fabiano Caruana
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. He occasionally streams Titled Arenas and Team Battles held on
Lichess
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on his
YouTube
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Channel with the username "FairChess" to his 5 thousand subscribers.