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naiditsch leko , dortmund sparkassen chess meeting -lrb- on the left -rrb- playing with peter 2737 -lrb- december 2013 -rrb- riga , latvia 2685 the fide world rankings -rrb- -lrb- august 2015 -rrb- -lrb- no. 56 in grandmaster 25 october 1985 arkadij naiditsch naiditsch-leko_2012_dortmund . jpg arkadij naiditsch
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arkadij naiditsch -lrb- born 25 october 1985 in latvia -rrb- is a german chess grandmaster -lrb- title awarded in april 2001 -rrb- 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 bad königshofen .
in 2011 he won the 15th international neckar open with 8 1/2 / 9 , breaking the 2700 elo barrier .
in august 2014 he won with the black pieces against world champion magnus carlsen , playing first board for the german team in the chess olympiads .
in december 2014 he finished first in 38th zurich christmas open , one point ahead of richard rapport .
naiditsch tied 1st with magnus carlsen in the 3rd grenke chess classic tournament played in baden-baden in february 2015 , yet eventually finished second after a five-game tiebreak .
in july 2015 he switched to the azerbaijan chess federation .
