Arkadij Naiditsch

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Arkadij Naiditsch
Full name Arkadij Naiditsch
Country Flag of Germany Germany
Born October 25, 1985 (1985-10-25) (age 22)
Riga, Latvia
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2644
(No. 77 on the July 2007 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating 2676 (October 2006)

Arkadij Naiditsch (b. 25 October 1985 in Latvia) is a German chess Grandmaster (title awarded in April 2001) who was the clear winner of the Dortmund Sparkassen 2005 Tournament, ahead of higher-rated and well-known players such as Loek Van Wely, Veselin Topalov, Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik, Michael Adams, and Peter Leko. In 2007, he won the German national championship based in Ghert.

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