Jean-Luc Seret

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Jean-Luc Seret (born September 4, 1951 in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray ) is a French chess player who was one of the best players in his country for a quarter of a century.

He learned to play chess at the age of eleven from his father, who was an avid checkers player . In 1969 he played at the youth world championship in Stockholm , which was won by the later world chess champion Anatoli Karpov .

Between 1968 and 1995 he took part 23 times in the finals of the French individual championship ( tournoi "National" ). In 1971 he shared first place in Mérignac . He became French champion at the tournaments in Puteaux in 1980 , in Vitrolles in 1981 , in Alès in 1984 and in Clermont-Ferrand in 1985 .

He represented his country at the 1974 Chess Olympiads in Nice , 1976 in Haifa , 1980 in Valletta , 1982 in Lucerne and 1984 in Thessaloniki . At the team world championship in 1985 in Lucerne, he received a bronze medal for the third best result on the fifth board.

He played club chess from 1965 to 1992 in the Rouen clubs Cercle Rouennais des Échecs , Dame Blanche de Sotteville-lès-Rouen and Rouen-Échecs , the latter being the result of the union of the first two. From 1992 to 1994 he played for Belfort Échecs and 1995 to 2002 for Bordeaux Échecs . Since 2002 he has represented the Club Chevry 2 association in his home town of Gif-sur-Yvette , of which he is also president. In Germany from 1991 to 2003 he played a few games a year for the SC Viernheim chess club in the second division .

In 1982 he received the title of International Master . At the French team championship in 1992, he managed a grandmaster norm . Seret's Elo number is 2377 (as of July 2016), his highest Elo number of 2455 he reached in January 1985.

With the support of the chess composer Jean-Michel Trillon, Seret composed a study and around 12 fairy tale chess problems . In 1975 he won the first prize in the multi-player category at the Thèmes 64 problem tournament .

He is also a strong bridge player . In backgammon , he studies the dice and has published two articles about it on the web newspaper GammOnLine operated by Kit Woolsey .

Seret is married and has four children. He works as a research engineer at EDF in Clamart .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean-Luc Seret's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Jean-Luc Seret's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Seret, Jean-Luc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray