Peter 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 48) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating	2698 (November 2024)
Peak rating	2769 (May 2013)
Ranking	No. 34 (November 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.