{{short description|English chess player (born 1951)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox chess biography | name = Peter Markland | image = | caption = | birth_name = Peter Richard Markland | country = England | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|13 April 1951}} | birth_place = Bolton, Lancashire, England | title = {{ubl|class=nowrap|ICCF Grandmaster (1984)|FIDE Master (2021)}} | rating = [http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Markland,%20Peter%20R..html 2390] (May 1974) | peakrating = 2510 (July 1971) | peakranking = No. 63 (July 1971) | ICCF_rating = [https://www.iccf.com/player?id=210048&tab=3 2418] (July 1992) }}
'''Peter Richard Markland''' (born 13 April 1951 in Bolton, Lancashire) is a British chess player. He was a member of the British team at the Chess Olympiads in 1972 and 1974.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/77vjbd3n.html |title=Men's Chess Olympiads :: Peter Richard Markland |website=OlimpBase.org |accessdate=26 September 2010}}</ref><ref name="birthday">{{cite web |last=Upham |first=John |date=13 April 2020 |title=Happy Birthday Peter Richard Markland (13-iv-1951) |url=http://britishchessnews.com/2020/04/13/happy-birthday-to-peter-richard-markland-13-iv-1951/ |access-date=2020-09-24 |website=British Chess News |language=en-GB}}</ref> Markland was listed as the highest ranked British chess player in the first official FIDE Elo list, published in July 1971.<ref name="birthday" />
Since 1984, Markland is an ICCF Grandmaster.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Markland, Peter Richard |url=https://www.iccf.com/player?id=210048 |access-date=2020-09-24 |website=ICCF.com}}</ref> He is also an FIDE Master since 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ratings.fide.com/profile/400408 |title=Markland, Peter R |website=FIDE.com |access-date=23 December 2021}}</ref>
He worked as a banker and lives in Woodbridge, Suffolk.<ref name="birthday" />
== Bibliography == * ''The Best of Karpov'' (1975) * ''The Sicilian Richter-Rauzer'' [with Tim Harding] (1975) * ''Sicilian: ...E5'' [with Tim Harding] (1976)
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==External links== * {{FIDE|name=Peter R. Markland}} * {{ICCF|name=Peter Richard Markland}} * {{Chessgames.com player|name=Peter Richard Markland}}
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