Chantal Chaudé de Silans

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Chantal Chaudé de Silans, 1962
Association FranceFrance France
Born March 9, 1919
Versailles
Died September 5, 2001
Grasse
title International Women's Champion (1950)
Honorary Women's Grandmaster (1990)

Chantal Chaudé de Silans (born March 9, 1919 in Versailles , † September 5, 2001 in Grasse ) was a French chess player .

Life

At the age of 17, Chantal Chaudé de Silans became the French women's champion in 1936 . At the World Chess Championship for women in Moscow in 1949/50 , she was in the lead for a long time, but then dropped and ended up finishing 5th – 7th. Space. In the same year she received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). Chaudé de Silans qualified several times for the finals of the French individual championship (for years she remained the only woman who succeeded) and achieved third place as the best placement in 1951 in Vichy . In 1951 she played a competition against Henry Grob , the Swiss champion at the time, in the Jelmoli department store in Zurich . She took part in three more candidate tournaments for the Women's World Cup: Moscow 1952 (shared 8th – 10th place), Moscow 1955 (shared 10th – 13th place) and Vrnjačka Banja 1961 (shared 12th – 14th place). Madame Chaudé de Silans still played for her club in the first French league on the women's board at an old age.

In 1990 she was awarded the title of Honorary Grand Master of Women (HWGM).

From 1970 she headed a chess club in Paris named after the chess goddess Caissa . A member of the club was ex-world champion Boris Spassky , who gave the funeral speech after her death. Shortly afterwards, in September 2001, the club, which had run into financial difficulties, was renamed NAO Chess Club against the opposition of her daughter Muriel .

National team

Chantal Chaudé de Silans played in the French national team at the 1950 Chess Olympiad in Dubrovnik and was the first woman to take part in an (official) Chess Olympiad . It was also used twice in the qualifying competitions for the 1957 European Team Championship . With the French women's team, she took part in the 1957 Chess Olympiad in Emmen , the first women's chess Olympiad.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ André Schulz : Chantal Chaudé de Silan's 100th birthday In: de.chessbase.com. March 9, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019.
  2. ↑ Biography of Chantal Chaudé de Silans on heritageechecs.fra (French)
  3. ↑ Final result of the French championship 1951 on heritageechecsfra.free.fr (French)
  4. ↑ Report at Chessbase
  5. ↑ Chantal Chaudé de Silans' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Chantal Chaudé de Silans' results at qualifying tournaments for the European Team Championship on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Chantal Chaudé de Silans' results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Silans, Chantal Chaudé de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chess master
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 2001
Place of death Grasse