Peter Svidler | |
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![]() Svidler at the European Team Championship in Warsaw, November 2013 | |
Full name | Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler |
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Born | Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 17 June 1976
Title | Grandmaster (1994) |
FIDE rating | 2698 (August 2024) |
Peak rating | 2769 (May 2013) |
Ranking | No. 36 (August 2024) |
Peak ranking | No. 4 (January 2004) |
Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and commentator who is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion.
Svidler has competed in three World Championship tournaments: in the period with split title the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 and 2005, and after reunification the World Chess Championship 2007. He also played in three Candidates Tournaments, in 2013, 2014 and 2016. His best results at this level have been third in 2005 and 2013.
Eight-time Russian Champion (1994, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2017),[1] he has represented Russia at the Chess Olympiad ten times (1994–2010; 2014) winning five team gold medals, two team silvers and an individual bronze. Svidler won the Chess World Cup 2011, was runner-up in the World Blitz Championship in 2006 and won at Fontys Tilburg, Biel and Gibraltar. Svidler also tied for first at Dortmund, Aeroflot Open and Karpov Poikovsky. He also assisted Vladimir Kramnik at the Classical World Championship matches in 2000 and 2004.