Peter Heine Nielsen (born 24 May 1973) is a Danish

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trainer and player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by

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in 1994. He coached world champions

Vishwanathan Anand Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating ...

and

Magnus Carlsen Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the reigning five-time World Chess Champion. He is also a three-time World Rapid Chess Champion and five-time World Blitz Chess Champion. Carlsen has h ...

winning World Championships in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2021.

Chess career

Nielsen was awarded the title of

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in 1991 and that of Grandmaster in 1994. He won the

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five times: in 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2008. He played for Denmark in seven

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s, three times on top board, with an overall result of 60.1% (+24−10=35). He won an individual bronze medal on third board at Moscow 1994. On January 30, 2004 he played against ChessBrain – which earned the world record as the largest distributed chess computer. The result was a draw. By September 2005, Nielsen's

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in the

list was 2668, at the time the highest rating for any player from the

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Coaching career

Nielsen coached World Champion

Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating of ...

from 2002 until 2012. Anand won the World Championship title in Mexico 2007, and defended it in Bonn 2008, Sofia 2010 and Moscow 2012. Nielsen has been coaching world number one,

, since 2013. Carlsen won the

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, which gave him the right to challenge Anand for the world championship. He defeated Anand, and has since defended the title four times. Nielsen had previously coached Carlsen in Khanty-Mansiysk 2005, where Carlsen became the youngest player ever to qualify for the Candidates' matches.

Shogi

In 2012 Nielsen began playing

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; he achieved the mark of 2

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in May 2017. The same month, he won the Danish Shogi Championship.Peter Heine Nielsen
player profile at FESA

Personal life

Nielsen lives in Lithuania with his wife,

Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen (born 6 August 1983) is a Lithuanian politician and chess player who is currently the speaker of the Seimas. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2010, she was European women's champion in 2011, and is a two-time L ...

, and four children. She is also a chess grandmaster, as well as a politician of the Liberal Movement.Už ką V.Čmilytė-Nielsen moka didelę kainą?
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Notable games

Peter Nielsen vs.

Henrik Danielsen Henrik Danielsen (born 23 January 1966) is a Danish-Icelandic chess grandmaster. He was Icelandic Chess Champion in 2009. Chess career Born in 1966, Danielsen earned his grandmaster title in 1996. In 1993, he finished joint first in the Poli ...

, Danish Championship (playoff) 1996
1. c4 f5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. d4 e6 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. Qb3 a5 6. g3 b6 7. Bg2 Bb7 8. 0-0 0-0 9. Rd1 Qc8 10. Qc2 Bxc3 11. Qxc3 d6 12. b3 Nbd7 13. Ne1 h6 14. Bb2 Bxg2 15. Nxg2 Qe8 16. Rac1 Qf7 17. Qc2 Ne4 18. Ba3 e5 19. dxe5 Nxe5 20. Bb2 Ng6 21. e3 Rae8 22. Qe2 Re7 23. Rd5 Kh7 24. Rcd1 Ng5 25. h4 Ne4 26. h5 Ne5 27. Nh4 c6 (diagram) 28. Rxd6 Ng4 Even after the best move 28...Nxd6, White is much better after 29.Rxd6 Kg8 30.Bxe5 Rxe5 31.Ng6 Re6 32.Rxe6 Qxe6 33.Nxf8 Kxf8 34.Qd3. Black's move is weaker and he loses quickly. 29. Rg6 Rg8 30. Rf1 Ng5 31. Qd3 Nh3+ 32. Kg2 Nhxf2 33. Rxf2 Rd7 34. Qc3 Nxf2 35. Kxf2 Qe6 36. Rxe6

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