Daniel Fridman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Daniel Fridman
Occupation	Chess Player
Date Of Birth	Feb 15, 1976(1976-02-15)
Age	48
Birthplace	Riga
Country	Latvia
Horoscope	Aquarius

Daniel Fridman Biography

Daniel Fridman is one of the most popular and richest Chess Player who was born on February 15, 1976 in Riga, Latvia. Daniel Fridman (Latvian: Daniels Fridmans born 15th February, 1996) is a German-Latvian chess player. The title was conferred to him by Grandmaster from FIDE at the beginning of 2001. He won Latvian champion at the time of 1996. He was also German champion in 2012, 2008 and 2014.

In 1999, he moved to Germany and was certified as Grandmaster in the year 2001.

Most of Fridman’s major tournament victories have occurred after the year

2000. These include outright or shared first places at Essen (‘B’ Group) 2001, Recklinghausen Summer Open 2002, Zurich Christmas Open 2002, Southampton, Bermuda 2003 (‘B’ Group), Stratton Mountain 2004, Marseille Open 2006, Nuremberg 2006, Lausanne 2006, Venaco (Corsica) 2006 and the Liverpool International Open of 2007. In 2019 Fridman won the Grenke Open in Karlsruhe edging out Anton Korobov, Andreas Heimann, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Gukesh D, Matthias Blübaum, Alexander Donchenko and Tamás Bánusz on tiebreak score, after all the mentioned players finished with score of 7½/9 points.

Playing league chess in the Bundesliga, he has been a member of the Mulheim Nord club since 2004.

He played his first game for his Latvian men’s team on board 4 during the Yerevan Oympiad, in 1996, and also during the Pula 1997 European Team Chess Championship. He was back on his place on the Olympiad team as the first board member in the year 2004 (Calvia) and then in the year 2006 (Turin). Since becoming an German citizen He has since changed chess federations . He was also the an incumbent national champion at the time of 2008, was an obvious selection as a member of the German team to compete at the Dresden Olympiad. In the year 2018, Fridman won an individual gold medal for being the top player on board four in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi.

Daniel Fridman Net Worth

Daniel Fridman is one of the richest Chess Player from Latvia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Daniel Fridman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the late 1990s Fridman was recognized as a major player within Latvian chess. He was able to win the Latvian championship in 1996 and was awarded his International Master (IM) title in 1994. After he had left his junior status He had his first international tournament success during the Wichern Open in Hamburg in 1997 (joint second, just in front of Sergei Movsesian) and Senden in 1998 (joint winner along with Frank Holzke).

Fridman began to learn how to play chess at about four years old. He was soon an avid participant in youth tournaments and competed at regional, national and even international scales. The most memorable junior achievement was in Duisburg during 1992 where He won the bronze medal in the category for under-16 players at the World Youth Chess Championship.

He is a master of speed chess and, among other victories, took first places at the Essen rapid contest of 2000 and Dutch Open rapid tourney of 2008. Playing internet competitions, he has enjoyed success at the Dos Hermanas tournaments of 2004 and 2005. He competed at the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Israel.

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Facts & Trivia

Daniel Ranked on the list of most popular Chess Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Latvia. Daniel Fridman celebrates birthday on February 15 of every year.

Top Facts about Daniel Fridman

1. Daniel Fridman is a Latvian-German chess player.
2. He was born on February 15, 1976 in Riga, Latvia.
3. Fridman became a Grandmaster in 2001.
4. His highest FIDE rating was 2667 in July 2014.
5. He has won the German Chess Championship twice (2008 and 2012).
6. Fridman has represented Germany in multiple Chess Olympiads.
7. He has played for Israel and Latvia earlier in his career.
8. Fridman’s preferred opening as White is the English Opening.
9. He has authored several books on chess strategy and tactics.
10. As of August 2021, he is ranked #11 among active German players by FIDE rating.