Robert Fontaine

Robert Fontaine, 2009
Association	France (until 2016) Monaco (2016 to 2018) Switzerland (since 2018)
Born	November 18, 1980 Suresnes
title	International Master (1997) Grand Master (2002)
Current  Elo rating	2550 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2572 (January 2008)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Robert Fontaine (born November 18, 1980 in Suresnes ) is a French chess player and journalist who was registered for the Monegasque Chess Federation from July 2016 to November 2018 and has been eligible to play for the Swiss Chess Federation since November 2018.

Life

Fontaine won or occupied top places in several tournaments: 2nd place at the tournament in Opatija (2002), 2nd place at the TS01GM tournament in Novi Sad (2003), 1st place at the Las Vegas Masters (2006), 3rd place at the 81st French championship in Besançon (2006), in 2007 he won the Rilton Cup in Stockholm .

In 1997 he became International Master , and since 2002 he has held the title of Grand Master .

As a chess journalist, he writes regularly for Europe Échecs , for which he also produces video interviews and analyzes . His wedding in February 2009 to Grand Master Kateryna Lagno had a lot of media coverage in chess publications.

societies

In the German Federal Chess League he played in the 2001/02 season for the Erfurter SK and in the 2010/11 season and the 2011/12 season for the Sportfreunde Katernberg . In France he played for AS Cannes , in Serbia for Spartak Subotica (with whom he won the championship of Serbia and Montenegro in 2005), in Italy for Siena, in the British Four Nations Chess League for Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher , in Switzerland for Réti Zurich , with whom he won the Bundesliga in the 2013/14 season and the National League A in the 2014 season, and later for the Club d'Echecs de Genève , with which he was team champion in 2019 , Cercle d'échecs de Nyon and in Hungary for Csuti Antal SK Zalaegerszeg , with whom he became Hungarian team champion in 2008 .

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Robert Fontaine on chessgames.com (English)
• Robert Fontaines website (last blog entry is from 2007)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dressing changes 2016 in the FIDE (English)
2. ↑ Transfers in 2018. In: FIDE. Retrieved November 28, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ChessBase Megabase 2010
4. ↑ Kateryna and Robert - pour la vie à jamais unis ... ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed on July 7, 2015)
5. ↑ Statistics National League A. In: Swiss Chess Federation. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .