Frederik Svane
{{Short description|German chess grandmaster (born 2004)}}
{{Infobox chess player
| image = FrederikSvane23c.jpg
| caption = Svane in 2023
| country = Germany
| birth_date = {{Bda|2004|1|21}}
| birth_place = Lübeck, Germany
| title = Grandmaster (2022){{cite web|url=https://ratings.fide.com/crt/main229277.pdf|title=FIDE Title Application (GM)}}
| peakranking = No. 53 (April 2025)
| peakrating = 2668 (December 2024)
| FideID = 12923044
}}
Frederik Svane (born January 21, 2004) is a German chess grandmaster.
Chess career
Svane is the younger brother of Rasmus Svane. At age four, Frederik joined a chess club and began learning and playing against Rasmus.{{cite web|url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/frederik-svane-2-gm-norms-in-24-hours|title=Frederik Svane Sets Likely Record, Scoring Final 2 GM Norms In 24 Hours|last=Doggers|first=Peter|date=June 1, 2022}}
In December 2020, Svane won the World Online Junior U16 Championship.{{cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/german-top-tournament-starts-with-a-surprise|date=April 6, 2021|last=Fischer|first=Johannes|title=German top tournament starts with a surprise}}
In April 2021, Svane, then a FIDE Master, defeated Matthias Blübaum (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 Kiel, 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 performance rating of 2607, and then drawing against Eduardas Rozentalis in the Hamburg Invitational.{{cite web|url=https://www.chessdom.com/frederik-svane-becomes-gm-after-earning-two-norms-in-24-hours/|title=Frederik Svane becomes GM after earning two norms in 24 hours|date=May 28, 2022}}
In October 2022, he had a strong standing in the World Junior Chess Championship.{{cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/frederik-svane-leads-at-world-junior-championship|date=October 18, 2022|last=Schulz|first=Andre|title=Frederik Svane leads at World Junior Championship}}
Svane played in the Chess World Cup 2023, where he defeated Lee Jun Hyeok in the first round, but was defeated by Ivan Cheparinov in the second round.
At his Chess Olympiad debut in 2024, he earned an individual gold medal, scoring 8/9 on board five.https://web.archive.org/web/20240922192658/https://chess-results.com/tnr967173.aspx?lan=1&art=21&flag=30%2A Later that year, he finished the European Individual Championship in third place.