Peter Svidler

Peter Svidler was born on June 17, 1976 in Leningrad, Russia. He learned to play chess when he was six years old, and in 1994, he became a Grandmaster. He has won the Russian Championship four times, in 1994, 1995, 1997, and in 2003. In 2001, he reached the semi-final of the FIDE World Championship where he lost to Ruslan Ponomariov.

Svidler is a noted advocate of Fischer Random Chess, also called Chess960. He became Chess960 World Champion by beating Peter leko in an eight-game match at the 2003 Main Chess classic. Since winning the title, he has defended it twice, defeating Levon Aronian in 2004 and Zoltan Almasi in 2005.

In the FIDE World Chess Championship of 2005, he tied for second place with Vishwanathan Anand with 8.5 points out of 14 games. On the January 2006 FIDE rating list, he has an ELO rating of 2765 making him number four in the world. His handle on the Internet Chess Club server is Tendulkar.

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