César Boutteville

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César Boutteville (born June 24, 1917 in Thin-Hao near Hanoi , French Indochina , † May 21, 2015 in Versailles ) was a French chess player .

Boutteville was born the son of a French and a Vietnamese woman in a suburb of Hanoi, which was then the seat of the colonial administration. In 1929 the family moved to France and lived in Boulogne-sur-Mer .

Boutteville spent the Second World War in Paris , where he turned intensively to chess. In the year of the liberation of France , he won his first of a total of six titles (1944-1946, 1951, 1961, 1972) as Paris city champion. In 1945 he won the French national championship in Roubaix . He was to repeat this achievement several times in the following (1950, 1954, 1955, 1959 and 1967). For a long time, Boutteville was the national record champion with six titles (now it is Étienne Bacrot , who won his seventh title in 2012). César Boutteville won the French team cup several times with Caïssa Paris .

As an amateur player, Boutteville was only able to devote himself to tournament chess during the holiday season. Internationally, he mainly appeared at the Chess Olympiads . He played on the first or second board and took part in seven Olympiads from 1956 to 1968. He achieved an overall result of 41½ points from 102 games (+29 = 25 −48).

After a long break, Boutteville took an active part in chess competitions from 2007 to 2011. It has had an Elo rating of 2078 since July 2011 . From July 1971 to January 1988, Boutteville had its highest rating of 2290, before the introduction of the rating, its highest historical rating was 2432 in December 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thin-Hao (Thịnh Hào) is located in the modern Hanoi district of Đống Đa.
  2. ^ Décès de César Boutteville
  3. ^ List of winners of the Paris championship
  4. ↑ Reports on the French team cup on heritageechecsfra.free.fr (French)
  5. ↑ Overview at olimpbase on Boutteville's results at the Chess Olympiads
  6. ↑ César Boutteville's Elo development from 1971 to 2001 at olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ César Boutteville's historical Elo numbers at chessmetrics.com (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Boutteville, César
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boutteville, Cesar (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Thin-Hao near Hanoi
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 2015
Place of death Versailles