Pyotr Weniaminowitsch Swidler

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Peter Svidler (2013) .JPG
Pyotr Swidler at the Alekhine Memorial, 2013
Association RussiaRussia Russia
Born June 17, 1976
Leningrad
title International Master (1991)
Grand Master (1994)
Current  Elo rating 2723 (July 2020)
Best Elo rating 2769 (May 2013)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Pjotr ​​Weniaminowitsch Swidler ( Russian Пётр Вениаминович Свидлер , scientific transliteration Pëtr Veniaminovič Svidler , FIDE designation Peter Svidler ; born June 17, 1976 in Leningrad ) is a Russian chess player . Among the current top players in the world, Swidler is an expert in the Grünfeld-Indian defense .

Career

Swidler, Dortmund 1998

Swidler learned chess when he was 6 years old. In 1994 he won the U18 youth world champion title in Szeged and was named grandmaster in the same year . His most significant successes include eight Russian championships : 1994, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2017 (in 1998 he won together with Alexander Morozevich , who had the better rating and was declared champion).

Swidler's greatest successes were the victories in Tilburg in 1997, where he defeated the reigning world champion Garri Kasparow , as well as at the Dortmund Chess Days 1998 (together with Wladimir Kramnik and Michael Adams ). He was also successful in Biel / Bienne 2000. In 2001 he reached the semi-finals of the FIDE KO World Chess Championship (in Moscow ), but lost to the eventual winner Ruslan Ponomarjow with 1.5: 2.5. In 2003 he shared 1st place at the very strong Aeroflot Open in Moscow.

In 2003 Swidler replaced Péter Lékó as world champion of the Chess960 chess form (held annually in Mainz ), but lost this title to Lewon Aronjan in 2006 . He took part in the FIDE world championship tournament with 8 participants in San Luis (Argentina) in 2005, where he achieved an excellent result with 8.5 out of 14, which led to a shared second place with the Indian Viswanathan Anand . At the 2007 World Cup tournament in Mexico City , Swidler finished fifth with eight participants.

In February 2008 he won the Dortelcom Masters in Gibraltar after a playoff against Vadim Milov . In September 2011 he won the KO chess world cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia . In the final he prevailed against Alexander Grishchuk with 2.5: 1.5 . In four other participations in the World Chess Cup , Swidler reached the quarter-finals in 2009 , 2013 and 2017 , and the second round in 2007 .

He was awarded the host's free place for the Chanty-Mansiysk 2014 Candidates Tournament . There he came second to last with 6.5 out of 14 (+3 = 7 −4).

At the 2015 World Chess Cup in Baku he reached the final, in which he already led 2-0 against Sergei Karjakin , but had to admit defeat with a total of 4: 6 points after equalizing in the subsequent tie- break. With his participation in the finals, he also qualified for the candidates' tournament for the 2016 World Chess Championship , in which he came fourth. In 2017 he won his eighth Russian championship (record winner).

National team

Swidler has been a member of the Russian national team since the mid-1990s. He participated in the Chess Olympiads in 1994 , 1996 , 1998 , 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 and 2014 . With the team he won in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002 and reached second place in 2004 and 2010, in the individual ranking he achieved the third-best result on the fourth board in 1996. Swidler took part in the team world championship in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2011 and 2017. In 1997 and 2005 he won both with the team and in the individual ranking of his board (1997 on the second, 2005 on the first board), in 2001 he reached second place with the team. At the European Team Championships took Svidler 1997, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013, in part. He won with the team in 2003 and 2007, came second in 1997 and 2009 and third in 2013.In the individual ranking, he achieved both the best result on the first board in 2007 and the best Elo performance of all participants, in 2005 on the first and in 2013 on second board the second best result and 1997 on the second board the third best result.

societies

In the Russian team championship Swidler has played almost continuously for the Saint Petersburg team since 1995 , with whom he was Russian team champion in 2000, 2001 and 2013 and also took part in the European Club Cup eleven times , which he won in 2011. The Russian team championship in 1996 he won with Ladja Azow , with whom he also won the European Club Cup in 1997, at the Russian team championship in 2005 he played for Ladja Kazan . At the European Club Cup 2006 he played for Urals Sverdlovsk . Swidler has been playing in the German 1st Bundesliga since 2003 for OSG Baden-Baden , with whom he was German team champion in 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 and twice at European Club Cup participated. In France, Swidler played for NAO Paris until 2006 , with whom he was French team champion in 2003 , 2004 , 2005 and 2006 and won the European Club Cup in 2003, from 2008 to 2010 for Évry Grand Roque , with whom he became French team champion in 2009 . In the British Four Nations Chess League Swidler played in the 2000/01 season for champions Beeson Gregory and in the 2004/05 season for Guildford A&DC , in Spain 2006 for CA Cuna de Dragones-Ajoblanco Mérida , in Yugoslavia for the team of Partizan Belgrade , with which he took part in the European Club Cup 1995.

Web links

Commons : Pjotr ​​Swidler  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sparkassen - Chess - Meeting 1998 in Dortmund (opera house) on TeleSchach
  2. ↑ Baku Finals TB: Karjakin Wins. chessbase.com, accessed October 5, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Pjotr ​​Swidler's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Pjotr ​​Swidler's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Pjotr ​​Swidler's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Pjotr ​​Swidler's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Pyotr Swidler's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Swidler, Pyotr Weniaminowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Свидлер, Пётр Вениаминович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad