Peter Heine Nielsen

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Peter Heine Nielsen
Peter Heine Nielsen at the 2005 Corus chess tournament
Full name Peter Heine Nielsen
Country Flag of Denmark Denmark
Born May 24, 1973 (1973-05-24) (age 35)
Holstebro, Denmark
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2629
(No. 98 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating 2668 (July 2005)

Peter Heine Nielsen (born May 24, 1973) is a Danish chess player.

He became an International Grandmaster in 1994. By September 2005 his ELO rating in the FIDE list was 2668, at the time the highest rating for any player from the Nordic countries.

On January 30th, 2004 he played against Chessbrain - which earned the world record for the largest distributed chess computer. He currently is a second for the Norwegian wonderboy Magnus Carlsen and the world's no.1, Viswanathan Anand.

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