Name: Peter Svidler
Age: 34 (6/17/1976)
FIDE Title: Grandmaster (gained his GM norms in 1994)
Current ELO rating: 2735 (FIDE rating list)
Current Chess960 rating: 2733
Current coach: IM Andrei Lukin
Hobbies: Listening to good music, reading, cricket and any kind of billiardsCAREER HIGHLIGHTS
* Chess960 World Champion (Mainz 2003, 04 & 05)
* FIDE World Chess Championship Semifinalist (Moscow 2001)
* Russian Champion: 1994, 95, 97, 2003 & 2008
* Olympic Champion: 1994, 96, 98, 2000 & 2002 / Silver medal: 36th Chess Olympiad (2004)
* Co-winner of Tilburg 1997 & Dortmund 1998 & 2006
* Bunratty Masters: 2008, 09
ANNOTATED GAMES:
* Popov, V - Svidler, P - Russian Chess Championship 2003 / Published in Schach (10/2003)
* Svidler, P - Bologan, V - European Team Championship 2003 / Published in "New in Chess" (11/2003)
* Morozevich, A - Svidler, P - Russian Chess Championship (11/2004)
* Svidler, P - Korotylev, A - Russian Chess Championship (11/2004)
* Alekseev, E - Svidler, P - Russian Superfinal (12/2008)
* Svidler, P - Jakovenko, D - Russian Superfinal Play-Off (12/2008)
* Svidler, P - Gurevich, M - Gibraltar Masters (01/2009)
* Svidler, P - Harikrishna, P - Gibraltar Masters (02/2009)
* Short, N - Nakamura, H - Corus Chess Tournament (01/2010)
ELO rating variation (starting July 2000)
Month / Year |
ELO rating |
Variation + / - |
|---|---|---|
November 09 |
2754 |
+13 |
September 09 |
2741 |
+2 |
July 2009 |
2739 |
+13 |
April 2009 |
2726 |
+3 |
January 2009 |
2723 |
-4 |
October 2008 |
2727 |
-11 |
July 2008
|
2738 |
-8 |
April 2008 |
2746 |
-17 |
January 2008 |
2763 |
+31 |
October 2007 |
2732 |
-3 |
July 2007 |
2735 |
-1 |
April 2007 |
2736 |
+8 |
January 2007 |
2728 |
-22 |
October 2006 |
2750 |
+8 |
July 2006 |
2742 |
- 1 |
April 2006 |
2743 |
- 22 |
January 2006 |
2765* |
+25 |
October 2005 |
2740 |
+2 |
July 2005 |
2738 |
+13 |
April 2005 |
2725 |
-10 |
January 2005 |
2735 |
+0 |
October 2004 |
2735 |
+8 |
July 2004 |
2727 |
-6 |
April 2004 |
2733 |
- 14 |
January 2004 |
2747 |
+ 24 |
July 2003 |
2723 |
+ 10 |
April 2003 |
2713 |
+ 20 |
January 2003 |
2693 |
+ 3 |
July 2002 |
2690 |
+ 2 |
April 2002 |
2688 |
- |
January 2002 |
2688 |
+ 2 |
October 2001 |
2686 |
- 9 |
July 2001 |
2695 |
+ 6 |
July 2000 |
2689 |
- |
* Highest achieved rating