Dmitry Vladimirovich Andreikin (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Андрейкин, born 5 February 1990) is a Russian

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grandmaster, World Junior Chess Champion in 2010 and two-time Russian Chess Champion (2012 and 2018). He won the

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leg of

FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 The FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 was a series of four chess tournaments that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2016. Fabiano Caruana finished first, and Hikaru Nakamura second in the overall standings. Both ...

and finished runners-up in Chess World Cup 2013 and Belgrade leg of

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Chess career

Andreikin won the Under-10 division of the World Youth Chess Championships in 1999. He tied for 1st–3rd places with Konstantin Chernyshov and

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2006. In 2008, he won the 4th Inautomarket Open in

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and tied for 3rd–7th with Rauf Mamedov,

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and Eltaj Safarli in the Chigorin Memorial. In 2009, he tied for 1st–3rd with

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2010s

He won the 2010 World Junior Chess Championship in Chotowa, Poland. In the same year, he tied for 2nd–7th with Alexey Dreev, Ivan Sokolov, Vladimir Fedoseev, Alexander Areshchenko and Konstantin Sakaev in the Chigorin Memorial. In 2011, he tied for 2nd–3rd with

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in the Baku Open. In February 2012, tied for 4th–8th with Alexander Khalifman, Maxim Rodshtein, Fabiano Caruana and Hrant Melkumyan 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

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playoff against five other players. In the Tal Memorial 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, 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, 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 in

, winning the tournament ahead of

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, 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 in round of 16 by eventual winner Sergey Karjakin, so he missed qualification for the

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. In 2016, Andreikin won the Hasselbacken Open (on tiebreak from B. Adhiban) in Stockholm, the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival and the European

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Championship in

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. In 2017, he won the gold medal in the men's rapid chess event of the IMSA Elite Mind Games in

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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 in a

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

. 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 and reached the finals of Chess.com Rapid Chess Championship losing to

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in the finals after defeating

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and Fabiano Caruana. He occasionally streams Titled Arenas and Team Battles held on

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on his

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Channel with the username "FairChess" to his 5 thousand subscribers.

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