GMAleksey Grebnev

Aleksey Grebnev was born in Tolyatti and began playing chess at six. His coaches have included Dmitry Afanasiev and Maxim Matlakov. He won the 2023 Asian Junior Championship with a final-round victory over Alekhya Mukhopadhyay. Later that year he secured the world under-18 title with a round to spare after defeating Prraneeth Vuppala. He repeated his Asian Junior Championship victory in 2024, leading from round three to the finish. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title that year. In 2025 he won both the Dubai Open and Oskemen Open on tiebreak. At the 2025 World Cup he defeated David Navara and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on his way to the fifth round, where Andrey Esipenko eliminated him. In July 2026 he won the Asian Rapid Continental Championship with 8½/11.