Frederik Svane

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

Chess career Svane's older brother is Rasmus Svane. 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 grandmaster 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 2022, he had a strong standing in the World Junior Chess 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. Later that year, he finished the European Individual Championship in third place.

In 2025, Frederick knocked out the reigning World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in Round 3 of the Chess World Cup 2025 held in Goa, India. He then defeated Shant Sargsyan in the fourth round, before losing to eventual winner Javokhir Sindarov in the fifth round.