Frederik Svane (born January 21, 2004) is a German

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grandmaster.

Chess career

Svane is the younger brother of

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. At age four, Frederik joined a chess club and began learning and playing against Rasmus. In December 2020, Svane won the World Online Junior U16 Championship. In April 2021, Svane, then a FIDE Master, defeated

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(then the top-rated German player) in a surprise upset in the Kader Challenge, a tournament for top-level German chess players. In October 2021, Svane achieved his first GM norm by finishing in second place at a round-robin in

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, Germany. In May 2022, he obtained two GM norms in less than one day by finishing second in a closed GM tournament held by the Hamburg Chess Club with a

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of 2607, and then drawing against

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in the Hamburg Invitational. In October 2022, he had a strong standing in the

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. Svane played in the

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, where he defeated Lee Jun Hyeok in the first round, but was defeated by

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in the second round.

References

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