Peter Svidler
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European Team Championship in Warsaw November 2013
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| Full name | Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler |
| Country | Russia |
| Born |
17 June 1976 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating |
2747 (April 2017) (No. 17 in the December 2016 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2769 (May 2013) |
Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976, in Leningrad) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.
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. Svidler assisted Vladimir Kramnik at the Classical World Championship matches in 2000 and 2004.
Seven-time Russian Champion (1994, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2013), 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.
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