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Daniel Fridman
Number of games in database: 370
Years covered: 1991 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2649
Highest rating achieved in database: 2665
Overall record: +158 -47 =154 (65.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      11 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 King's Indian (25) 
    E63 E62 E67 E76 E69
 Slav (24) 
    D15 D12 D11 D17 D18
 Queen's Pawn Game (22) 
    A46 D02 E10 E00 A40
 English (13) 
    A13 A15 A17 A16 A14
 Queen's Indian (12) 
    E15 E17 E19 E18 E14
 Semi-Slav (10) 
    D45 D43 D47 D44
With the Black pieces:
 Petrov (29) 
    C42 C43
 Semi-Slav (26) 
    D45 D43 D46 D44 D47
 Caro-Kann (26) 
    B18 B12 B19 B10 B13
 Queen's Pawn Game (13) 
    D02 A41 D00 D04 A46
 Slav (13) 
    D10 D16 D11 D12 D17
 Pirc (12) 
    B07 B09 B08
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   D Fridman vs Kurajica, 2005 1-0
   D Fridman vs Judit Polgar, 2007 1-0
   D Fridman vs T Taylor, 2005 1-0

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DANIEL FRIDMAN
(born Feb-15-1976) Latvia (citizen of Germany)

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GM Fridman was born in Riga, Latvia. He learned the rules of chess at the age of 4. He became an IM in 1994 and a GM in 2001. In 1999, Fridman moved to Germany. GM Fridman became German Chess Champion in 2008. He's married to WGM Anna Zatonskih and they have a daughter (born in 2007).

 page 1 of 15; games 1-25 of 370  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. D Fridman vs Rublevsky  0-148 1991 Alma-AtaA04 Reti Opening
2. D Fridman vs Kulaots  1-052 1991 EU-ch U20A15 English
3. Topalov vs D Fridman  ½-½14 1991 Junior DMD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
4. D Fridman vs Svidler 0-141 1992 juniorsA14 English
5. Svidler vs D Fridman  1-037 1992 ChWmU16 Duisburg C55 Two Knights Defense
6. D Fridman vs Oral  ½-½45 1994 Wch U18B01 Scandinavian
7. M Brodsky vs D Fridman  1-060 1995 Riga opB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
8. D Fridman vs Oral  ½-½65 1995 Wch U20A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
9. Pavasovic vs D Fridman  0-140 1995 Wch U20B10 Caro-Kann
10. D Fridman vs J Norri  ½-½46 1996 Yerevan ol (Men)A12 English with b3
11. R Barcenilla vs D Fridman  ½-½22 1996 YerevanA12 English with b3
12. D Fridman vs P Zarnicki  ½-½50 1996 Yerevan ol (Men)A46 Queen's Pawn Game
13. D Fridman vs Handszar Odeev  1-040 1996 YerevanE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
14. Sutovsky vs D Fridman  ½-½27 1996 COLC43 Petrov, Modern Attack
15. D Fridman vs V Nasybullin  ½-½43 1996 Yerevan ol (Men)A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6)
16. Patrick Marie vs D Fridman  0-133 1996 YerevanB07 Pirc
17. D Fridman vs O Renet  ½-½58 1996 YerevanA49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
18. D Fridman vs Speelman  0-140 1996 OlympiadA04 Reti Opening
19. D Fridman vs F El Taher  1-032 1996 YerevanE69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line
20. R Dautov vs D Fridman  0-162 1997 EU-chT (Men)D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
21. D Fridman vs G Timoshchenko  ½-½12 1997 EU-chT (Men)D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
22. R Gadjily vs D Fridman  ½-½26 1997 EU-chT (Men)B07 Pirc
23. D Fridman vs Y Shulman  ½-½41 1997 EU-chT (Men)B39 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation
24. M Palac vs D Fridman  ½-½59 1997 EU-chT (Men)C43 Petrov, Modern Attack
25. D Fridman vs Yusupov  ½-½29 1997 Linares Anibal op 4thE19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3
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Mar-20-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  cu8sfan: Or how about Daniel Freeman? (-:
Mar-20-05   Shams: too boring. work with me, bro!
Mar-20-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  cu8sfan: <Shams> Lol! Obviously you don't know that that's the name of the guy behind <chessgames.com>.
Mar-20-05   WTHarvey: Here are some of Daniel's earlier mates and wins: http://www.wtharvey.com/frid.html
Mar-28-05   BradMajors: Congratulations to Daniel Fridman winner of Dos Hermanas internet tournament on the ICC. http://www.chessclub.com/resources/...
Mar-28-05   Illogic: And that is the second consecutive year he has won this tournmanent!
Mar-28-05   hintza: He played very solidly throughout the finals, a deserved winner I think. I was rooting for Jan Smeets, but never mind!
Dec-01-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  cu8sfan: How come this guy gets to be player of the day twice while Daniel Freeman has never been PotD before?!
Dec-01-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: possible pun, Frid Green Tomatoes. =)
Dec-01-05   Runemaster: "at the Svidlerstop Cafe"?
Feb-15-06   BIDMONFA: Daniel Fridman

FRIDMAN, Daniel
http://www.bidmonfa.com/fridman_dan...
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Apr-18-07   DutchDunce: Hmm, reminds me of Sergey Erenburg. Another relative no-name who wins against Polgar and Grischuk, at a non-classical time control.

Then again, Grischuk was being weird, with his 1.d4 opening. I've noticed many e4-openers (Anand is another) will try to play d4 against lower-ranked opposition, not always with terrific results.

Apr-25-07   DutchDunce: Turns out this guy has a rather well-known fiancee: Anna Zatonskih
Feb-15-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Err... Yes, yesterday was Daniel Freeman, and today, it's Daniel Friedman...

I sense a serious conspiracy.

Feb-23-08   cannibal: Daniel Fridman is German champion 2008.
I don't know for sure, but after Naiditsch's dismal result at Aeroflot, he may very well be the highest rated German player on the April list.
Feb-23-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  whiteshark: Gluckwünsch, Champ! :D
Jul-01-08   Augalv: Fridman wins Dutch Lightning Title

Germany’s strongest grandmaster Daniel Fridman is not a bad blitz lightning player either. Last week he won the Open Dutch Lightning Championships and lots of spectacular videos were recorded.

The 6th Open Dutch Lightning Chess Championship was held on Saturday, June 21st, but we wanted to wait for the videos before publishing this article. Two years ago this tournament was kind of an eye-opener for me as far as chess videos are concerned: just for fun I recorded a few on a Nikon Coolpix photo camera and everybody loved to watch it.

Unfortunately I couldn’t attend the last two editions but the good news is that the organizers recorded many games themselves. You’ll find a few videos at the end of this article.

The winner was Daniel Fridman. After finished shared first with Hungarian IM Gyula Iszak in the final group, Fridman needed six tiebreak games to win the cup. He succeeded Floris van Assendelft, who finished shared fifth with IM Manuel Bosboom - both of them former winners.

click here:http://www.chessvibes.com/blitz/fri... to read the full story.

Feb-01-09   WhiteRook48: learning chess at 4.... seems like Capablanca
Feb-01-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  whiteshark: Kinder, wie die Zeit vergeht....
Feb-14-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  timhortons: [Event "80th German Championships"]
[Site "Saarbrücken"]
[Date "2009.02.14"]
[Round "9"]
[White "IM Boidman, Yuri(GER)"]
[Black "GM Fridman, Daniel(GER)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2415"]
[BlackElo "2650"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2009.??.??"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. g3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bg2 Nc7 7. O-O e5 8. d3 Be7 9. b3 O-O 10. Bb2 Bg4 11. h3 Be6 12. Rc1 f6 13. Kh2 Qd7 14. Qc2 Rac8 15. Qb1 Nd4 16. e3 Nxf3+ 17. Bxf3 Bxh3 18. Rg1 Bg4 19. Bxb7 Rcd8 20. Be4 f5 21. Bg2 Qe8 22. Rh1 Ne6 23. Kg1 f4 24. f3 Bf5 25. e4 Bg6 26. Nd5 fxg3 27. Bxe5 Bg5 28. Re1 Bd2 29. Re2 Rxd5 30. exd5 Nd4 31. Qd1 Bf4 32. Bh3 Black wins 0-1 0-1


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29th move mistake of IM Boidman(29 Re2)

better is

IM Boidman,Y - GM Fridman,D, 80th German Championships 2009


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Analysis by Rybka 3 Human 1-cpu 32-bit:

1. (-0.59): 29.Bxg3 Nd4 30.f4 Bf7 31.Ne3 Qb5 32.Bh4

<final position>


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Feb-15-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Didn't we just celebrate your birthday 2 days ago?!?!? What the hay is going on here?? Just how many birthdays do one get?

Freeman?? Oh, nevermind!!

Feb-15-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  whiteshark: I'm always confused, too. The are splitting images of each other. :D
Apr-13-09   PhilFeeley: Another one not here yet, possibly because it was played very recently:

Fridman (2650) - Strohhäker (2451) [B22]
DEM 2009/Saarbruecken (2.1) 2009

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nc6 5. Nf3 g6 6. Na3 Bg4 7. Bc4 Qe4+ 8. Be3 cxd4 9. cxd4 O-O-O 10. Nb5 e5 11. Rc1 Kb8 12. O-O a6 13. Bd3 Bxf3 14. gxf3 Qh4 15. Rxc6 bxc6 16. Na7 Kxa7 17. Qa4 Kb8 18. Qxa6 Kc7 19. Rc1 Ne7 20. Be4 Kd7 21. Bxc6+ Nxc6 22. Qxc6+ Ke7 23. Qc7+ Ke8 24. Qxe5+ Qe7 25. Qxh8 f6 26. Qg8 1-0

Apr-17-09   Raisin Death Ray: <PhilFeeley> I guess Mr. Zatonskih did REAL good! :)
Jul-16-09   returnoftheking: 1 Daniel Fridman GM Germany 2665 7 0 5 9.5
2 Boris Gelfand GM Israel 2755 8 2 2 9.0
3 Judit Polgar GM Hungary 2687 7 3 2 8.0
4 Pavel Eljanov GM Ukraine 2716 6 4 2 7.0
5 Michael Roiz GM Israel 2658 3 3 6 6.0
6 Maxim Rodshtein GM Uganda 2623 4 4 4 6.0
7 Ilia Smirin GM Uganda 2650 4 5 3 5.5
8 Jan Nepomniachi GM Russia 2632 4 5 3 5.5
9 Emil Sutovsky GM Israel 2675 3 5 4 5.0
10 Evgeniy Najer GM Russia 2663 4 6 2 5.0
11 Alexander Beliavsky GM Slovenia 2662 3 7 2 4.0
12 Vitali Golod GM Israel 2599 3 7 2 4.0
13 Boris Avrukh GM Israel 2641 2 7 3 3.5

Fridman is a well known lightning player; several times he won the DUTCH lightning ch (2minutes p.p)and just now he won the blitz tournament shown above.

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