Peter Svidler

Piotr Veniaminovitch Svidler (in Cyrillic ПётрВениаминовичСвидлер; Piotr Véniamiovitch Svidler) is a player of failures and international Large-Master Russian born the June 16th 1976 with Leningrad.

In July 2007 on the list of the International federation of the failures, it has a Elo: 2735, which places it at the 12th world rank.

Piotr Svidler learned how to play six years. It became GMI in 1994.

It gained four times the championship of Russia in 1994, 1995, 1997, and 2003. In 2001, it reaches the semi-finals of the Championnat of World FIDE. Andrei Lukin is his trainer.

Svidler is an expert of the Fischer Random Chess (also called Chess960). It gained the first edition of open Chess960 with Mainz in Germany. With the " 2003 Mainz Chess Classic", he became world champion of Chess960 by beating Peter Lékó in a match of 8 parts. Since, it defended its title twice, against Levon Aronian in 2004 and Zoltan Almasi in 2005.

It shared the 2nd place with Viswanathan Anand with the Championnat of World FIDE 2005 with 8.5 points out of 14 parts, 1.5 point behind the winner, Veselin Topalov.

Svidler is fan of Cricket. He is also fan of Bob Dylan.

A part

Peter Svidler - Veselin Topalov (Wijk year Zee Corus Chess 2004)

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. f3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8.Be3 Nbd7 9. g4 Nb6 10. g5 Nh5 11. Qd2 Be7 12. O-O-O O-O 13. Rg1 Rc8 14. Qf2
(see diagram)
14. … Rxc3
Début of a long sequence tactique
15. Bxb6 Bxg5+ 16. Kb1 Bh4 17. Rg3 Bxg3 18. hxg3 Rc7 19. Nc5 Qe7 20.Nxe6 fxe6 21. Bxc7 Qxc7
the white are found with a pawn of less but of good compensation.
22. Bh3 Re8 23. Rd3 Nf6 24. Qa7 Kf7 25. Rc3 Qd7 26.Qb6 Re7 27. Rd3 d5 28. exd5 Nxd5 29. Qc5 Qb5 30. Qd6 Nb4 31. Rd2 Qc4 32. b3 Qc3 33. f4 Qxg3 34. Qxb4 Qxh3 35. fxe5 Qe3 36. Qd6 h5 37. Rd1 Qf2 38. Qd3 Qg2 39. Rf1+ Kg8 40. Qd8+ Kh7 41. Rf8 Qg1+ 42. Kb2 Qg5 43. Qd3+ g6 44. Qd6 Kg7 45. Qb8 Qh6 46. Qd8 1-0

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