In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Veniaminovich and the family name is Svidler.
Peter Svidler
Svidler at the European Team Championship in Warsaw, November 2013
Full name
Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler
Country
Soviet Union (until 1992)
Russia (1992–2022)
FIDE (since 2022)
Born
(1976-06-17) 17 June 1976 (age 47) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title
Grandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating
2689 (May 2024)
Peak rating
2769 (May 2013)
Ranking
No. 45 (May 2024)
Peak ranking
No. 4 (January 2004)
Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and commentator who is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion.
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. His best results at this level have been third in 2005 and 2013.
Eight-time Russian Champion (1994, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2017),[1] 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. He also assisted Vladimir Kramnik at the Classical World Championship matches in 2000 and 2004.
Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as PeterSvidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster...
position against Svidler. Carlsen later got into serious time trouble and did not defend adequately against Svidler's attack, which gave Svidler a winning endgame...
position against Svidler. Carlsen later got into serious time trouble and did not defend adequately against Svidler's attack, which gave Svidler a winning endgame...
years as of 15 March 2016. FIDE uses a country-diversion system, so that Svidler and Karjakin, similarly Nakamura and Caruana, are paired together in rounds...
draw would cause the tournament result to depend on Anand's game against Svidler; if Anand won then Caruana would win, but otherwise Karjakin would win...
an open tournament was held which was attended by 131 players, with PeterSvidler taking first place. Fischer random chess was selected as the April 2002...
three rounds, Anand separated himself from the pack with wins over PeterSvidler and Alexander Grischuk, taking the lead. He then held Kramnik to a draw...
which all players under consideration have achieved. Aysa Mondrunova. "PeterSvidler is Organiser's nominee for 2014 Candidates Tournament". Retrieved 24...
Wei Yi in the first round. In October 2013, he tied for first with PeterSvidler in the Russian Championship Superfinal, finishing second on tiebreak...
places were taken by the next two players on the FIDE rating list: PeterSvidler and Judit Polgár. Polgár's participation made the FIDE World Chess Championship...
event, four different grandmasters captured the world title – Leko, PeterSvidler, Levon Aronian, and Hikaru Nakamura. In addition to the Chess960 Open...
Tournament. He was seconded during that tournament by Russian grandmaster PeterSvidler. Praggnanandhaa placed 5th out of 8 participants in the 2024 Candidates...
which all players under consideration have achieved. Aysa Mondrunova. "PeterSvidler is Organiser's nominee for 2014 Candidates Tournament". Archived from...
the Russian Championship Superfinal. Vitiugov acted as a second for PeterSvidler in the Candidates Tournaments of 2013 and 2014. In January 2014, at...
Karjakin won the competition on tie-breaks after a four-game final against PeterSvidler. Both finalists qualified for the 2016 Candidates Tournament. The winner...
tournament included Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, Sergey Karjakin, PeterSvidler, Veselin Topalov, Anish Giri, and Levon Aronian. In the final round...
player in the tournament, but after upset wins over Teimour Radjabov and PeterSvidler, he was in the semifinals facing Jan-Krzysztof Duda. The two matches...
August and 21 September 2011, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The Cup winner PeterSvidler, along with second placed Alexander Grischuk and third placed Vassily...
Luis, Argentina, taking fourth place behind Veselin Topalov, Anand and PeterSvidler. In December 2006, he won the strong Pamplona tournament with a score...
2014 Candidates Tournament. The winner of the Chess World Cup 2011, PeterSvidler, was defeated by Dmitry Andreikin in the quarter-finals. Matches consisted...
Ponomariov, 2009 World Junior champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and PeterSvidler among others. In August 2009, Nakamura became the 960 World Chess Champion...
Armenian chess players have no problems in Baku World Cup 2015 Regulations Svidler and Karjakin on the World Cup final (Chess24) Chess World Cup 2013, War...
So, Levon Aronian, Vachier-Lagrave, Alireza Firouzja, Domínguez and PeterSvidler. The event was jointly won by Carlsen and Nakamura, both scoring 6/9...
April 2013 it was announced that he had withdrawn and was replaced with PeterSvidler. On 7 May 2013, a blitz tournament was played to decide the play order...
Vladimir Kramnik had to withdraw due to health issues and was replaced by PeterSvidler. The wildcards were as follows: The results of the 2016 Grand Chess...
rounds, Alexander Grischuk and PeterSvidler finished atop the leaderboard with 10½/15; Grischuk subsequently defeated Svidler with Black in an armageddon...
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