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Peter Svidler (Пётр Свидлер; Pyotr Svidler, born June 17, 1976, in Leningrad) is a Russian chess grandmaster. On the July 2007 FIDE rating list he has an ELO rating of 2735, making him the number twelve in the world. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1489x1395, 229 KB) en: Peter Svidler – Russian ()grandmaster. ...
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is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and...
The title International Grandmaster is awarded to superb chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. It is a lifetime title, in chess literature usually abbreviated as GM or IGM (this is in contrast to WGM for Woman Grandmaster and IM for International Master). ...
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Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ...
Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ...
is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and...
Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. ...
The title Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ...
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Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ...
Peter Svidler learned to play chess when he was six years old. He became Grandmaster in 1994. The title Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ...
Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ...
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. Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...
Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 2003 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Andrei Lukin (Russian: , born in 1948) is a Chess International Master and a chess coach. ...
Svidler is a noted exponent of Fischer Random Chess (also called Chess960). He won the first edition of the Chess960 Open held in Mainz, Germany. At the 2003 Mainz Chess Classic, he became Chess960 World Champion by beating Péter Lékó in an eight-game match. He successfully defended his title twice, defeating Levon Aronian in 2004 and Zoltán Almási in 2005, before losing it to Aronian in 2006. One of 960 possible starting positions (#177). ...
Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ...
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Levon Aronian (born October 6, 1982) is an Armenian chess player. ...
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He became shared second (together with Vishwanathan Anand) in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 with 8.5 points out of 14 games, lagging 1.5 points behind the winner, Veselin Topalov. In an interview [1] given for World 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." Viswanathan Anand (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster. ...
The FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 took place in San Luis Province in Argentina from September 27 to October 16, 2005. ...
Veselin Topalov (IPA: ; Bulgarian: ) (born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world champion. ...
The World Chess Network (WCN) is an online chess playing site. ...
In 2006 he went second behind Alexander Grischuk at the World Blitz Championship in Rishon Lezion, Israel, with 10.5 points out of 15 games. Alexander Grischuk Alexander Grischuk (b. ...
Rishon Le Zion in 2002 Rishon LeZion, or Rishon LeZiyyon (ראשון לציון) is a city in Israel, on the central coastal strip, in the Center District of Israel, just south of Tel Aviv, and part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area (Gush...
Svidler is a fan of cricket. Bowler Shaun Pollock bowls to batsman Michael Hussey. ...
His handle on the Internet Chess Club server is Tendulkar. The Internet Chess Club (ICC) is a commercial Internet site devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ...
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born April 24, 1973) is a living cricket legend and member of the Indian cricket team since 1989. ...
He is also a fan of Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ...
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