François Fargère

François Fargère, Warsaw 2012
Association	France
Born	September 1, 1985 Saint-Rémy , France
title	International Master (2009) Grand Master (2009)
Current  Elo rating	2404 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2520 (March 2011)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

François Fargère (born September 1, 1985 in Saint-Rémy , Saône-et-Loire department ) is a French chess player .

Life

François Fargère learned to play chess from his father at the age of five and took part in tournaments for the first time when he was eight. His youth club was La Dame Blanche Auxerre , where he was trained by Anatoli Waisser . Since 2009 he has been trained by Josif Dorfman . In the top division of the French team championship Fargère played in the 2008/09 season for Mulhouse Philidor , in the 2011/12 season for Grasse Echecs and since the 2013/14 season for Évry Grand Roque . In Switzerland he played for the Club d'Echecs de Genève in the National League A from 2009 to 2011 . He works for Google France.

successes

In 1995 he won the French individual championship in the U10 category and in 1999 in the U14 category. At the Mitropa Cup in Chur in 2010 , he played on the first board of the French national team. In July 2010 he won the 42nd Dutch Open in Dieren with one point ahead of Sipke Ernst .

In March 2009 he was awarded the title of International Master . He achieved the norms for this at the Open in Val Thorens in July 2005, where he defeated Fabien Libiszewski , among others , and at the Jeane-Claude Loubatier Festival in Montpellier in July 2008, where he exceeded the necessary norm by 1.5 points with victories against among others Éric Prié and Hicham Hamdouchi as well as draw games against, among others, Anthony costs (at the same time a norm for obtaining the grandmaster title). He achieved the third norm at the 29th Open in Béthune in December 2008. A little more than seven months later he became chess grandmaster. For this he was credited with the norm in Montpellier as well as his second norm from the French team championship 2008/09 and his third norm from the 11th Obert Internacional de Sants in Barcelona in August 2009, in which he won 7 points from 9 games.

Web links

• Replayable chess games by François Fargère on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview of January 14, 2010 ( Memento of March 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
2. ^ Fargère wins Open Dutch Championship . Article from August 6, 2010 on ChessVibes.com (English)
3. ↑ IM application (English)
4. ↑ GM application (English)