Daniel Fridman

This article deals with the German-Latvian chess player Daniel Fridman; for the Israeli politician see Daniel Friedmann .

Daniel Fridman, 2013
Association	Germany
Born	February 15, 1976 Riga
title	International Master (1995) Grand Master (2001)
Current  Elo rating	2615 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2670 (October 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Daniel Fridman (born February 15, 1976 in Riga ) is a German grandmaster in chess and three-time German champion (2008, 2012 and 2014).

Life

Daniel Fridman was born in Latvia. In 1999 Fridman moved to Germany, where his family already lived. He has had German citizenship since 2007 and is eligible to play for the German Chess Federation . Daniel Fridman lives in Bochum and is married to the chess player Anna Zatonskih , together they have a daughter (* 2007) and a son (* 2015). Fridman's brother Rafael has the title of International Master .

Chess career

Single successes

Fridman took third place at the U16 World Championships in 1992 , tied with Pjotr ​​Swidler . In 1995 he became an international master and has held the title of chess grandmaster since 2001. Fridman is one of the strongest blitz players in the world, winning the Maccabiade blitz chess competition in 2009 ahead of Boris Gelfand , Judit Polgár and Pawel Eljanow .

His numerous successes such as in Marseille 2006 (1st – 2nd), Nuremberg 2006 (1st – 3rd), Lausanne 2006 (1st), Venaccu 2006 (Corsica, 1st) and Liverpool 2007 (1st) include one Series of Internet tournaments, he won the German Internet Championship in 2005. In 2008 he won the German individual championship for the first time in Bad Wörishofen with 7.5 points from 9 games . In March 2012 he was again German individual champion in Osterburg (Altmark) with 7.5 points from 9 games. In November 2012 he won the Remco Heite invitation tournament in Wolvega (Netherlands) ahead of Loek van Wely . In 2014 he won the German championship for the third time in Verden , and in 2019 the Grenke Chess Open.

Team chess

National team

Fridman took part in three Chess Olympiads ( 1996 , 2004 and 2006 ) with the Latvian team . He represented Germany for the first time at the 2008 Chess Olympiad . His score of 7 out of 10 was the team’s best individual result, making him the third best individual result on the fourth board. Fridman was able to repeat this success at the 2012 Chess Olympiad . At the 2014 Chess Olympiad he played on the third board and at the 2016 and 2018 Chess Olympiads he played on board 4. At the 2018 Chess Olympiad, he won the gold medal on the 4th board in the individual ranking. This was the first gold medal for a German since 1990.

In 1997, Fridman took part in the European Team Championship with the Latvian team, in 2009, 2011 , 2013, 2015 and 2017 with the German team, which won this competition in 2011. This success enabled the German team to take part in the 2013 Team World Championship, where Daniel Fridman was also nominated and achieved the best individual result on the third board with a score of 4.5 points from 7 games.

Club chess

In Germany, Fridman played from 1997 to 2003 for the Essen club White Lady Borbeck , which first played in the Ruhr Area Association League, then for three years in the NRW Oberliga and then in the 2nd Bundesliga . He has been playing in the Bundesliga for SV Mülheim-Nord since 2004 and is also the team captain there. Fridman has also been active in the Netherlands since 2004 with HMC Calder , in Belgium he played in the second team of KSK 47 Eynatten in the 2006/07 season , in the 2007/08 season for champions Vliegend Peerd Bredene ; since 2008 he has been a member of the Wirtzfeld chess friends , with whom he became Belgian team champion in the seasons 2008/09 , 2012/13 and 2017/18 . Fridman also had individual appearances in the 2006/07 season of the French Top 16 at Club de Chess 15 Paris , in the 2007/08 season of the Luxembourg national division at Cercle d'échecs Dudelange and in the 2018/19 season at the British Four Nations Chess League at Manx Liberty . He took part in the European Club Cup in 2008 with SV Mülheim-Nord and in 2009 with HMC Calder .

Web links

Commons : Daniel Fridman  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Daniel Fridman on chessgames.com (English)
• Portrait at Schachbundesliga.de ( Memento from March 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Article about Fridman at the DSB
2. ↑ Change of association in 2007 at FIDE (English)
3. ↑ Chessbase News
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 1, 2012. 
5. ↑ 85th German individual chess championship 2014 in Verden / Aller on TeleSchach
6. ↑ German Chess Federation, accessed on May 7, 2019
7. ↑ Daniel Fridman's individual results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Daniel Fridman's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Daniel Fridman's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ^ Daniel Fridman's DWZ index card from July 28, 2013 at the German Chess Federation
11. ↑ Daniel Fridman's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)