Daniel Fridman
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Daniel Fridman in 2013
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| Full name | Daniels Fridman |
| Country |
 Germany
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| Born |
February 15, 1976 Riga, Latvia |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating |
2597 (April 2017) (No. 85 in the January 2012 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2665 (July 2009) |
Daniel Fridman (born February 15, 1976 in Riga) is a German chess grandmaster from Latvia. He was Latvian champion in 1996 and German champion in 2008,2012 and 2014.
Fridman learned the rules of chess when he was around four years of age. He soon became a regular player of youth tournaments, competing at the national, regional and international levels. His biggest junior success occurred at Duisburg in 1992, when he took home a bronze medal in the Under-16 category of the World Youth Chess Championship.
By the mid-1990s, Fridman was recognised as a serious force in Latvian chess. He went on to win the national championship in 1996, having gained the International Master (IM) title in 1994. Leaving his junior status behind, he had some early international tournament successes at the Wichern Open in Hamburg in 1997 (joint second place, behind Sergei Movsesian) and Senden in 1998 (joint winner with Frank Holzke).
In 1999 he relocated to Germany and qualified as a Grandmaster in 2001.
Most of Fridman's major tournament victories have occurred after the year 2000. These include outright or shared first places at Essen ('B' Group) 2001, Recklinghausen Summer Open 2002, Zurich Christmas Open 2002, Southampton, Bermuda 2003 ('B' Group), Stratton Mountain 2004, Marseille Open 2006, Nuremberg 2006, Lausanne 2006, Venaco (Corsica) 2006 and the Liverpool International Open of 2007.
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