Daniel Fridman

Grand Master (2001)

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

Daniel Fridman was born in Latvia. He finished in 1992 at the U16 World Championships in third place, level on points with Pyotr Svidler. In 1994 he became an International Master and carries since 2001 the title of chess grandmaster.

In 1999, Fridman was followed by his family and moved to Germany over, since 2007, he has the German nationality. In the chess Bundesliga since 2004, he plays for the SV Mülheim -Nord and there is also team leader. Fridman is one of the most powerful flash players in the world, so he won the Makkabifestspiele in flash 2009, Boris Gelfand, Judit Polgár and Pawel Eljanow.

Among his many successes as in Marseille 2006 ( 1st - 2nd ), Nuremberg 2006 ( 1st - 3rd ), Lausanne 2006 ( 1 ), Venaccu 2006 ( Corsica, 1 ) and Liverpool in 2007 ( 1 ) include a number of Internet tournaments, he won the German Internet Championship in 2005. In 2008 he won in Bad Wörishofen with 7.5 points from 9 games for the first time the German Individual Championship. In October 2008 he represented Germany at the Chess Olympiad for the first time. His score of 7 out of 10 was the highest individual score of the team, which he significantly contributed to the good performance of the team.

In November 2011 he won the European Team Championship with the German national team. This was achieved by a sensational victory against Armenia in the last round. In March 2012 he was again in Osterburg ( Altmark) with 7.5 points from 9 games German singles champion. In November 2012, he won the Remco Heite invitational tournament in Wolvega (Netherlands) Loek van Wely before.

Daniel Fridman lives in Bochum and is married to the chess player Anna Zatonskih, they have a daughter (* 2007). Fridmans brother Rafael bears the title of International Master.

His current Elo rating is 2667 (as of January 2013), so that it is ranked 2 in the German Elo ranking behind Arkady Naiditsch.