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Then in the [[FIDE]] [[World Championship]] Tournaments, firstly at [[FIDE World Chess Championship 1998|Groningen 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: at [[FIDE World Chess Championship 1999|Las Vegas 1999]] by [[Michael Adams (chess player)|Michael Adams]], at [[FIDE World Chess Championship 2000|New Delhi 2000]] to [[Veselin Topalov]], at [[FIDE World Chess Championship 2002|Moscow 2001]] to [[Viswanathan Anand]], and finally at [[FIDE World Chess Championship 2004|Tripoli 2004]] to [[Leinier Dominguez]].
 
HisDuring the 1990s, his best international tournament victories were atincluded the [[Biel Chess Festival|Biel Grandmaster Tournament]] (+5 =8 −0) and at the [[Tata Steel Chess Tournament|Hoogovens tournament]] (+9 =4 −1), both in 1995; in the latter, Dreev beat [[Evgeny Bareev]] by 2.5-1.5 in the final. He also won at Reggio Emilia in the 1995/96 event. Moving into the 2000s, he was the winner at Dos Hermanas 2001 and at Esbjerg 2003.

Dreev's best performance in the Russian Championship was in 2004 at Moscow when he finished third (+4 =5 −2). This tournament was won by [[Garry Kasparov]].
 
In 2000 Dreev won the 1st European [[Fast chess|Blitz Chess]] Championship in [[Neum]] on tiebreak over [[Ivan Sokolov (chess player)|Ivan Sokolov]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Crowther|first=Mark|title=TWIC 309: 1st European Rapid Championships|url=http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic309.html#5|publisher=The Week in Chess|accessdate=9 January 2016|date=9 October 2000}}</ref>
 
He played in the prestigious 2002 match [[USSR and Russia versus the Rest of the World|Russia versus Rest of the World]] and contributed a plus score, although the Russian Team went on to lose the match.
 
In 2007 he won the 5th Parsvnath Open in [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic637.html#10 |title=TWIC 637: 5th Parsvnath Open |last=Crowther |first=Mark |date=22 January 2007|publisher=London Chess Center |accessdate=31 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930232407/http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic637.html |archivedate=30 September 2011 }}</ref> Dreev won the Magistral Casino de [[Barcelona]] [[round-robin tournament]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alexey Dreev Secures First Place in Barcelona|url=http://tournaments.chessdom.com/magistral-casino-de-barcelona-2008|publisher=Chessdom|accessdate=4 November 2015|date=10 November 2008}}</ref> In 2011 he won the [[Cento]] Open on tiebreak score.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic849.html#3|title=The Week in Chess 849|website=theweekinchess.com|access-date=4 November 2016}}</ref>