- Peter Svidler
Infobox chess player
playername = Pyotr Svidler
caption=
birthname = Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler
country = RUS
datebirth = birth date and age|1976|6|17
placebirth = Leningrad,Russia
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =
rating = 2738
(No. 11 on the July 2008 FIDE ratings list)
peakrating = 2765 (January 2006)Peter Svidler (Пётр Свидлер; Pyotr Svidler, born
June 17 ,1976 , in Leningrad) is aRussia nchess grandmaster. On the April 2008 FIDE rating list he has an ELO rating of 2746, making him the number nine in the world.Peter Svidler learned to play chess when he was six years old. He became Grandmaster in 1994.
He is four-time Russian champion (1994,
1995 ,1997 ,2003 ). In 2001, he reached the semi-finals of the FIDE World Championship.Andrei Lukin is his coach.Svidler is a noted exponent of
Fischer Random Chess (also called Chess960). He won the first edition of the Chess960 Open held inMainz , Germany. At the 2003 Mainz Chess Classic, he becameChess960 World Champion by beatingPéter Lékó in an eight-game match. He successfully defended his title twice, defeatingLevon Aronian in 2004 andZoltán Almási in 2005, before losing it to Aronian in 2006.He became shared second (together with
Vishwanathan Anand ) in theFIDE World Chess Championship 2005 in San Luis with 8.5 points out of 14 games, lagging 1.5 points behind the winner,Veselin Topalov . In an interview [http://chesslodge.blogspot.com/2006/01/exclusive-interview-gm-peter-svidler.html] given forWorld Chess Network he said: "I only prepared seriously for San Luis, and I think it has paid off. But in general I spend most of my spare time with my wife and kids, so my relative success in 2005 was a pleasant surprise."His San Luis result earned him direct entry to the
World Chess Championship 2007 . In that tournament he scored 6.5 out of 14, placing 5th out of eight players.In 2006 he went second behind
Alexander Grischuk at theWorld Blitz Championship inRishon Lezion , Israel, with 10.5 points out of 15 games. He also finished tied for first withVladimir Kramnik at the Dortmund 2006.Svidler is a fan of
cricket ; his handle on theInternet Chess Club server isTendulkar . He is also a fan ofBob Dylan .External links
* [http://www.psvidler.net/ Official homepage]
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