Dmitry Andreikin has played thousands of high-level games across classical, rapid, and blitz, and his best work has a signature you can feel: fearless, resourceful, and completely unbothered by an opponent’s reputation. Below are the results and games that best capture him. We’re keeping this in prose and pointing you to reliable databases for the full move-by-move, so nothing here is a made-up score.
The 2013 World Cup: an all-time underdog run
If you learn one thing about Andreikin’s career, make it the 2013 Chess World Cup. The World Cup is one of the most nerve-shredding events in chess — 128 players, single elimination, where a single bad day sends you home. Andreikin entered as a strong grandmaster but nobody’s pre-tournament favorite, and he proceeded to win match after match, surviving the tension of tiebreak playoffs and outlasting a brutal field.
He kept advancing all the way to the final, where he faced former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik — one of the greatest players of the modern era. Andreikin lost the four-game final 1½–2½, but simply reaching it was a landmark result. It stamped him as a genuine world-elite talent and, crucially, earned him a place in the 2014 Candidates Tournament, the event that decides who plays for the World Championship. You can replay the full match games from the event on Chess.com and the major databases.
Beating Kramnik at the Tal Memorial (2013)
The same year, Andreikin authored one of his most impressive individual results at the 2013 Tal Memorial in Moscow — an elite super-tournament packed with the world’s best. He entered as the lowest-rated player in the field, the kind of situation where a young grandmaster is expected to get pushed around.
Instead, he went through the entire event undefeated, and the headline of his tournament was a classical win over Vladimir Kramnik — the very player who would beat him in the World Cup final. Holding your own against that company is hard enough; beating a former World Champion while losing to no one is the stuff of a career-highlight reel. The result gave him a shared third-to-fifth place finish and confirmed 2013 as his breakout year. The game is available to replay on the standard databases.
The 2014 Tashkent Grand Prix: a 2852 masterclass
A year later came arguably the best tournament performance of his career. At the 2014 FIDE Grand Prix leg in Tashkent, Andreikin took clear first with 7/11 — finishing ahead of Hikaru Nakamura, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Fabiano Caruana, and eight other elite grandmasters. That score translated to a performance rating of 2852, the kind of number normally reserved for the very best players in the world on their best days.
Winning a Grand Prix leg outright, over a field that deep, is exactly the sort of result that proves a player belongs at the top table — not as a one-tournament surprise, but as a consistent threat. It’s one of the cleanest demonstrations of what Andreikin can do when his practical, intuitive style clicks over a long event. The games from Tashkent are on the official coverage and the major databases. See how he stacks up against one of the rivals he beat there, Fabiano Caruana.
The Carlsen scalp: speed-chess fearlessness (2019)
Andreikin’s reputation as a speed-chess specialist produced one of the most eye-catching one-game feats of his career. At the 2019 World Blitz Championship, Magnus Carlsen — then, as now, the dominant force in fast chess — steamrolled the field to take the title. But there was a single blemish on his run: he lost exactly one game, and it was to Dmitry Andreikin, the only player to beat him in the entire event.
That’s the essence of Andreikin in a nutshell. When the clock is short and the position is chaotic, his intuition and nerve make him lethal, and no opponent’s aura is going to slow him down. His fast-chess games are a joy to click through on Chess.com and other databases.
Why his games are worth studying
Even if you’re nowhere near grandmaster strength, Andreikin’s games are surprisingly instructive — for a few concrete reasons:
- Fearlessness pays off. Andreikin doesn’t play scared against big names. His willingness to trust his own judgment, even against a former World Champion, is a mindset any club player can borrow. Respect your opponent; don’t fear them.
- Practical over perfect. He often chooses the move that poses the most practical problems rather than the one an engine calls “objectively best.” At human speeds, making your opponent solve hard problems is how you win.
- Speed chess is a skill you can train. Andreikin’s rapid and blitz results show that fast, confident decision-making is its own craft. His games are a masterclass in trusting your intuition when the clock is short.
- Resourceful defense. Watch how he wriggles out of worse positions. Being hard to beat — refusing to fold when things go wrong — wins a shocking number of games at every level.
Keep exploring
Want to see how the pieces of his game fit together? Read about his playing style, dig into his opening repertoire, trace his rating history, or head back to the full Dmitry Andreikin profile.
Written and fact-checked by the Chess Lab Academy Editorial Team · Facts verified against Wikipedia, the Chess World Cup 2013 record, and Chess.com, as of July 2026 · Game moves should be replayed from those databases · Last verified 2026-07-10 · How we verify content.