Almira Scripcenco

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Almira Scripcenco, 2010
Association Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union (until 1991) Moldova (1992 to 2002) France (since 2002)
Moldova RepublicRepublic of Moldova 
FranceFrance 
Born February 17, 1976
Chișinău
title International Master of Women (1994)
Grand Master of Women (1995)
International Master (1998)
Current  Elo rating 2418 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2498 (January 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Almira Scripcenco ([ skriptʃenko ], French also Almira Skripchenko ; born February 17, 1976 in Chișinău ) is a French chess player from the Republic of Moldova .

Life

The daughter of a Russian and an Armenian (the women's grandmaster Naira Agababean ) learned chess as a 5-year-old and made rapid progress: as a 10-year-old she was already a player in the 1st category. Internationally, Almira Scripcenco first attracted attention in 1992 when she won the U16 youth world championship and took part in the Chess Olympiad in Manila with the Moldovan women's selection. In 1995 she was awarded the title of women's grandmaster, in 1998 that of an international master .

In 2001 Scripcenco won the European Women's Championship in Warsaw . She took part in two women's world championships and reached the second round in 2000 and the quarter-finals in 2001.

Scripcenco has lived in France since 1996 and has been eligible to play internationally for her new home since 2002. She won the French women's championship six times (2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012 and 2015). Scripcenco was one of the founding members of the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) in 2003 and was its treasurer. In February 2015 she was 55th in the women's world rankings.

In the past few years Scripcenco has also participated in international poker tournaments. At the World Series of Poker 2009 in Las Vegas, she took seventh place in an event in the No Limit Texas Hold'em variant with 1695 participants for prize money of almost 80,000 US dollars . In 2010 she received the France Poker Award for best French player.

From 1997 to 2003 Scripcenco was married to the French grandmaster Joël Lautier . After the divorce from Lautier, she married the French grandmaster Laurent Fressinet . Since January 2007 they are parents of a daughter.

On May 8, 2010, Scripcenco's father Fyodor Fyodorovich, who was president of the Moldovan Chess Federation, died.

Team chess

National team

Almira Scripcenco took part in ten women's chess Olympiads from 1992 to 2012 , running five times ( 1992 , 1994 , 1996 , 1998 and 2000 ) for Moldova and five times ( 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 and 2012 ) for France. In European Team Championships for women Scripcenco was six times at the start (1992 and 2001 for Moldova, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2015 for France). She achieved second place in both the team and individual scores on the first board in León in 2001 , while she achieved the third-best individual score on the second board in 2015 in Reykjavík .

Club chess

Since 1998 Scripcenco has also played in German clubs, first at SC Heiligenhaus , from 2002 at SC Baden-Oos (which was renamed OSC Baden-Baden in December 2004 ), from 2003 to 2012 at Werder Bremen (and at the same time as a guest player in of the women's national league at OSC Baden-Baden ) and in the 2012/13 season at SF 1891 Friedberg . In 2005 Scripcenco won the German team championship with Werder Bremen , and the German women's team championship with Baden-Baden in 2003 , 2004 and 2005 . In the Dutch Meester class Almira Scripcenco played from 1997 to 1999 for the second team of Panfox / De Variant Breda . Scripcenco won the French team championship in 2003 and 2004 with NAO Paris , in 2007 , 2008 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 and 2016 with Clichy, she has also played for CEMC Monaco and Asnières - Le Grand Echiquier . She won the French women's team championship in 2007 and 2009 with Clichy . At the European Club Cup for Women Scripcenco took part ten times (2000 BAS Belgrade , 2003 ULIM Chisinau , 2007 till 2014 CE Montecarlo ) and won the competition in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013. The second team Panfox Breda she took part in the European Club Cup 1998.

Shogi

Almira Scripcenco also plays shogi .

Web links

Commons : Almira Scripcenco  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Board of the ACP ( Memento from June 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Event 36 at wsop.com. Retrieved May 10, 2010
  3. ↑ Top poker award for chess player , Chessbase.com, April 14, 2010
  4. ↑ Feodor Skripchenko, inventor of the 'New Slav', dies at 74 of May 8, 2010 (Russian)
  5. ↑ The Week In Chess 809 . May 10, 2010. Retrieved May 29, 2010
  6. ↑ Almira Scripcenco's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Almira Scripcenco's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ Almira Scripcenco's results at the European Women's Chess Club Cup on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Almira Scripcenco's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ Shogi boom is spreading beyond the borders! Madoka Kitao November 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Scripcenco, Almira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scriptschenko, Almira; Skripchenko, Almira (spelling FIDE); Scripcenco-Lautier, Almira (name 1997 to 2003); Skripchenko-Lautier, Almira (spelling FIDE 1998 to 2003)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Chișinău