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French Championships: A Family Affair

  • SonofPearl
  • on Mon, 8/23/2010 11:08am.

The 2010 French Championships were held in Belfort from 9-21 August.

The men's championship was a 12-player single round robin event, and the women's a 6-player double round-robin.

The men's championship was closely contested, with a tie-break needed to separate Laurent Fressinet (pictured) and Romain Edouard after both finished on 8/11.

Edouard had made the early pace during the event, but Fressinet won the second game of the rapid playoff to take the title.

The women's championship produced a clearer winner, with Almira Skripchenko justifying her Elo advantage by finishing 1.5 points ahead of her nearest rival.

Almira Skripchenko also just happens to be the wife of Laurent Fressinet, so it was a double celebration for this chess couple!

The final standings:

Edouard, Romain 2620 * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 8
Fressinet, Laurent 2697 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 8
Bacrot, Etienne 2720 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 7
Bauer, Christian 2612 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6
Dorfman, Iossif D 2583 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 5½
Tkachiev, Vladislav 2639 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 5½
Bricard, Emmanuel 2478 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 5
Sokolov, Andrei 2596 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 4½
Charnushevich, Aliaksei 2497 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 4½
Hamdouchi, Hicham 2600 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 4
Degraeve, Jean-Marc 2569 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 * 0 4
Cornette, Matthieu 2543 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 * 4

 

The women's final standings:

Skripchenko, Almira 2458 * * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 7½
Milliet, Sophie 2367 ½ ½ * * 0 ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 6
Leconte, Maria 2337 0 ½ 1 ½ * * ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ 5½
Collas, Silvia 2333 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ * * 1 1 ½ ½ 5
Guichard, Pauline 2320 0 0 0 1 1 0 ½ 0 * * ½ 1 4
Roumegous, Marina 2181 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * * 2

 

 

 

 

 

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Comments

  • 21 months ago

    feminist_vs_george

    he wasn't there.

  • 21 months ago

    simonvangerwen

    I love the third game from white, from about move 13 black is already F*ed. [it seems]

  • 21 months ago

    ChessWei

    wow, fun, look at the last game and black's opening, the defense, a mirror of the attack for the first few moves!!

  • 21 months ago

    skewer2000

    Fressinet was lucky to win against Bicard in the first featured game.  The endgame was almost drawish, until Bicard got his King exposed.  excellent French defense by Black

  • 21 months ago

    schleichnaldo

    vachier lagrave??

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