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* Peter Svidler annotates... Short, N - Nakamura, H (Corus Chess Tournament 2010 / ICC)

* Russian Championship Superfinal (December 20 - 29 / Moscow, RUSSIA): Alexander Grischuk (6.5/9) won the title, Peter Svidler (6) finished in second place

Round
Day
White
Black
Result
1
20
Svidler
Vitiugov
2
21 Khismatullin Svidler 0-1
3
22 Svidler Riazantsev 1-0
4
23 Svidler Grischuk 1/2
5
24 Sjugirov Svidler 1-0
6
26 Svidler Timofeev 1-0
7
27 Jakovenko Svidler 1/2
8
28 Svidler Alekseev 1/2
9
29 Tomashevsky Svidler 0-1

Official site / Results & standings / Pictures / Replay the games


Facing Alekseev´s Petroff defense (© Official site)

* German Bundesliga 2009-10 (December 12 - 13 / Heidelberg, GERMANY)

Round
Day
Player
Player
Result
6
12
Svidler
Postny
7
13
-
-
-

Official site / Replay the games

* FIDE World Cup (November 21 - December 15 / Khanty-Mansiysk, RUSSIA): Vladimir Malakhov knocked out Peter Svidler in round 5

Round
Day
Player
Player
Result
1.1
21
Svidler
Hebert
1.2
22
Hebert
Svidler
2.1
24
Nyback
Svidler
2.2
25
Svidler
Nyback
2.3
26
Svidler
Nyback
2.4
26
Nyback
Svidler
2.5
26
Svidler
Nyback
3.1
27
Svidler
Naiditsch
3.2
28
Naiditsch
Svidler
3.3
29
Svidler
Naiditsch
3.4
29
Naiditsch
Svidler
3.5
29
Svidler
Naiditsch
3.6
29
Naiditsch
Svidler
3.7
29
Naiditsch
Svidler
3.8
29
Svidler
Naiditsch
4.1
30
Shirov
Svidler
4.2
1
Svidler
Shirov
5.1
3
Svidler
Malakhov
5.2
4
Malakhov
Svidler

Official site / FIDE World Cup Mini-Site (TWIC) / Replay the games / Interview


Round 5 Game 2 - © Official site

* World Blitz Championship (November 16 - 18 / Moscow, RUSSIA): Magnus Carlsen´s (31/42) the new World Blitz Champion. Peter Svidler shared the 5th place with Ponomariov & Grischuk


Results - Final standings - Official site (Russian)

* Tal Memorial (November 5 - 14 / Moscow, RUSSIA): Vladimir Kramnik (6/9) won the tournament, Peter Svidler finished in 8th place

Round
Day
White
Black
Result
1
5
Aronian
Svidler
2
6
Svidler
Ivanchuk
3
7
Anand
Svidler
4
8
Kramnik
Svidler
5
10
Svidler
Ponomariov
6
11
Leko
Svidler
7
12
Svidler
Carlsen
8
13
Morozevich
Svidler
9
14
Svidler
Gelfand

Official site (Russian) / Replay the games


* European Team Championship (October 21 - 31 / Novi Sad, SERBIA): Russia finished in 2nd place after being held by Spain during the last round. Azerbaijan won the tournament

Round
Day
White
Black
Result
1
22
Stevic
Svidler
2
23
Svidler
Georgiev
3
24
Caruana
Svidler
4
25
-
-
5
26
Sutovsky
Svidler
6
27
Radjabov
Svidler
7
28
Svidler
Jobava
8
29
Aronian
Svidler
9
30
Svidler
Shirov

Official site / Replay the games / Pictures


Russia vs. Spain (round 9)

* German Bundesliga 2009-10 (October 17 - 18 / Solingen, GERMANY)

Round
Day
Player
Player
Result
1
17
Svidler
Smeets
2
18
Parligras
Svidler

Official site / Replay the games


German Bundesliga (round 2)

* European Club Cup (October 4 - October 11 / Ohrid, FYROM): Peter Svidler scored the best rating performance (2920, 5.5/7) on board 1 playing for SPbChFed Sankt-Peterburg

Round
Day
White
Black
Result
1
4
Pedersen
Svidler
2
5
Svidler
Nakamura
3
6
Ivanchuk
Svidler
4
7
Svidler
Mamedyarov
5
8
Gelfand
Svidler
6
9
Movsesian
Svidler
7
10
Svidler
Motylev

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Best 1st boards: Georgiev (gold medal), Svidler (silver) & Gelfand (bronze)

* NH Chess Tournament "Rising Stars vs. Experience" (August 20 - September 31 / Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS)

Round
Day
White
Black
Result
1
20
Svidler
Hou Yifan
2
21
Stellwagen
Svidler
3
22
Svidler
Smeets
4
23
Caruana
Svidler
5
24
Svidler
Nakamura
6
26
Hou Yifan
Svidler
7
28
Svidler
Stellwagen
8
29
Smeets
Svidler
9
30
Svidler
Caruana
10
31
Nakamura
Svidler

Official site / Replay the games

* Peter Svidler annotates... We´ve added four annotated games by Peter Svidler:

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* 5th ACP Tour 2008-2009 - Final standings: Levon Aronian won the tour, Peter Svidler finished in 5th place
Final standings - ACP site

* Donostia Chess Tournament
(July 6 - 16 / San Sebastián, SPAIN)

Hikaru Nakamura won the tournament after defeating Ruslan Ponomariov on a blitz tiebreak; they finished a full point ahead of Svidler (5.5/9, undefeated)

Round
Day
White
Black
Result
1
7
Svidler
Movsesian
2
8
Kasimdzhanov
Svidler
3
9
Svidler
Nakamura
4
11
Vachier-Lagrave
Svidler
5
12
Svidler
Karpov
6
13
Svidler
Vallejo
7
14
San Segundo
Svidler
8
15
Svidler
Ponomariov
9
16
Granda
Svidler

Official site / Replay the games

* French Chess League - Top 16 (May 28 - 31 / Le Port-Marly, FRANCE)

Round
Day
Player
Player
Result
8
28
Meier
Svidler
9
29
Svidler
Cossin
10
30
Kazhgaleyev
Svidler
11
31
Svidler
Prie

Replay the games / Live games / Official site

* 3rd ACP World Rapid Cup (May 22 - 24 / Odessa, UKRAINE)

Boris Gelfand beat Peter Svidler (3-1) in the final, Peter missed some chances during the last two games

Round
Day
White
Black
Result
1/8
22
Karpov
Svidler
1/2
1/8
22
Svidler
Karpov
1/2
1/8
22
Svidler
Karpov
1-0
1/8
22
Karpov
Svidler
1/2
1/4
23
Svidler
Movsesian
1/2
1/4
23
Movsesian
Svidler
1/2
1/4
23
Svidler
Movsesian
1/2
1/4
23
Movsesian
Svidler
0-1
SF
23
Grischuk
Svidler
0-1
SF
23
Svidler
Grischuk
1/2
FINAL
24
Gelfand
Svidler
1/2
FINAL
24
Svidler
Gelfand
1/2
FINAL
24
Gelfand
Svidler
1-0
FINAL
24
Svidler
Gelfand
0-1

Official site


Svidler - Grischuk

* French Chess League - Top 16 (May 2 / Mulhouse, FRANCE)

Round
Day
Player
Player
Result
6
2
Svidler
Jakovenko

Replay the games / Official site

* FIDE Grand Prix (April 15 - 29 / Nalchik, RUSSIA)

Round
Day
White
Black
Result
1
15
Alekseev
Svidler
2
16
Svidler
Ivanchuk
3
17
Bacrot
Svidler
4
18
Kamsky
Svidler
5
19
Svidler
Gelfand
6
21
Eljanov
Svidler
7
22
Svidler
Kasimdzhanov
8
23
Aronian
Svidler
9
24
Svidler
Leko
10
26
Mamedyarov
Svidler
11
27
Svidler
Akopian
12
28
Karjakin
Svidler
13
29
Svidler
Grischuk

Replay Svidler´s games / Picture gallery


Round 13: Press conference (Courtesy of FIDE)

* Russian Team Chess Championship (April 4 - 10 / Dagomys, RUSSIA): Peter Svidler played for St. Petersburg Chess Federation Team (Svidler, Movsesian, Vitiugov, Zvjaginsev, Sakaev, Efimenko, Yemelin & Turov); Tomsk-400 won the championship

Round
Player
Player
Result
1
Svidler
Moiseenko
2
Svidler
Belov
3
Grischuk
Svidler
4
-
-
-
5
Ivanchuk
Svidler
6
Svidler
Jakovenko
7
Gelfand
Svidler

Official site / Replay Svidler´s games

* German Bundesliga (March 28 - 29): OSG Baden-Baden retained the national title after beating SG Solingen on Saturday

Round
Day
Player
Player
Result
14
28
Svidler
Nikolic
15
29
Rustemov
Svidler

Official site // Replay the games


4th consecutive Bundesliga title (© Christian Bossert)

* French Chess League - Top 16 (March 20 - 22 / Mulhouse, FRANCE)

Round
Day
Player
Player
Result
2
21
Svidler
Dreev
3
22
Komarov
Svidler

Replay the games / Official site


Dreev & Svidler (© Marc Schaub)

* Interview for Europe Echecs: During the European Women´s Championship (St. Petersburg), Robert Fontaine interviewed Peter Svidler for the French chess magazine. You can watch the video and read a transcript here

* German Bundesliga (February 28 - March 1): Rounds 12 & 13 will be played this weekend. Current leader, OSG Baden-Baden, faced SK Turm Emsdetten (Saturday) and Werder Bremen (Sunday)

Round
Day
Player
Player
Result
12
28
Svidler
Janssen
13
1
Eljanov
Svidler

Official site // Replay the games

* Aeroflot Blitz Qualifier (February 26 / Moscow, RUSSIA): 165 players played this qualification blitz tournament for Tal Bliz Cup 2009. Sergey Karjakin won the tournament while Peter Svidler finished in 47th place // Official site

Round
Player
Player
Result
1
Pridorozhni
Svidler
0-2
2
Svidler
Zhigalko
1.5-0.5
3
Korotylev
Svidler
0.5-1.5
4
Svidler
Van Wely
2-0
5
Mamedov
Svidler
1-1
6
Svidler
Dreev
1-1
7
Svidler
Karjakin
0.5-1.5
8
Bareev
Svidler
1.5-0.5
9
Bartel
Svidler
2-0

* Bunratty Chess Festival (February 20 - 22 / Bunratty, IRELAND): Peter Svidler beat Alexander Baburin to retain the Bunratty Masters title he won last year

Round
Day
White
Black
Result
1
20
Heinrich
Svidler
2
21
Svidler
Baker
3
21
Williams
Svidler
4
21
Svidler
Wells
5
22
Lalic
Svidler
6
22
Svidler
Baburin

Replay Svidler´s games / Download all the games / Official site

* Gibtelecom Masters (January 27 - February 5 / Gibraltar)

Veni, vidi, vici...Peter Svidler won the tournament after beating Vadim Milov in the two-game play-off for first place

Round
Day
White
Black
Result
1
27
Svidler
Van Eijk
2
28
Berczes
Svidler
3
29
Svidler
Ganguly
4
30
Lopez Martinez
Svidler
5
31
Svidler
Gurevich
6
1
Socko
Svidler
7
2
Svidler
Stefanova
8
3
Svidler
Gashimov
9
4
Beliavsky
Svidler
10
5
Svidler
Harikrishna
TB 1
5
Milov
Svidler
TB 2
5
Svidler
Milov

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* FIDE rating list (January 2010): Magnus Carlsen tops the list (ELO 2810) while Peter Svidler appears in 10th place (2744 ELO points, having lost 10 ELO points)

Svidler´s rating progress chart
- FIDE top players & statistics

* NH Chess Tournament (Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS): "Experience" beat "Rising Stars" (27.5-22.5)

* FIDE Grand Prix (Nalchik, RUSSIA) - Levon Aronian won the tournament after defeating Peter Leko during the last round. Peter Svidler shared the 8-11th place

Official site / Final standings

* German Bundesliga (March 28 - 29): OSG Baden-Baden retained the title / Official site

* Amber Chess Tournament (March 14 - 26): Levon Aronian won the tournament, Vladimir Kramnik & Vishwanathan Anand shared the 2nd place / Official site

* Linares Chess Tournament (February 19 - March 8): Alexander Grischuk & Vassily Ivanchuk shared the first place; Grischuk won the tournament having scored more wins / Official site

* Corus Chess Tournament (January 16 - February 1): Sergey Karjakin won the tournament while Aronian, Radjabov & Movsesian shared the second place / Official site


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