Jean-Noël Reef

Jean-Noël Riff, Karlsruhe 2016
Association	France
Born	April 22, 1981 Mulhouse
title	International Master (2005) Grand Master (2014)
Current  Elo rating	2504 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2520 (January 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jean-Noël Riff (born April 22, 1981 in Mulhouse , Haut-Rhin ) is a French chess player .

Life

Jean-Noël Riff grew up in the village of Seppois-le-Bas . He started playing chess at the age of four and a half. His brother Sébastien, who was three years older and who also became a strong chess player with a maximum rating of 2293, taught him the rules. Besides chess, Jean-Noël Riff also plays basketball .

successes

He won the tournament in Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac twice, in 2009 and 2011. He won the 22nd Grand Prix in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage in 2007, ahead of Jean-Marc Degraeve and Jurij Wowk .

He plays club chess in France for Philidor Mulhouse . There he is also the team leader. With Philidor Mulhouse he took part in the European Club Cups 1997 and 2000, with the Swiss club Schachfreunde Reichenstein in the Club Cups 2006, 2007 and 2008. With Reichenstein he won the Swiss team championship in 2006 ; In 2006, 2007 and 2008 he was named the best player in the Swiss National League A. He has been playing for the Club d'Echecs de Genève since 2014 , with which he won the Swiss team championship in 2015 and 2019 . In Bisel , Alsace , living on the Swiss border , he also played with the Swiss club Porrentruy Echiquier Bruntrutain from 2016 to 2018 in the Bundesliga, and since 2018 he has played for Cercle d'échecs de Nyon . He has also played in the Basque Country team championship, for Naturgas Sestao . He has been playing in Germany for more than 15 years, previously for SK Freiburg-Zähringen in 1887 , then for Rochade Kuppenheim and since 2010 for OSG Baden-Baden . In the Belgian Interclubs he played for Royal Namur Echecs in the 2005/06 season and for the master Cercle d'Échecs Fontainois in the 2018/19 season .

Since August 2005 he has held the title of International Master . He achieved the standards for this in July 2004 at the Mülhausen GM Festival, two weeks later at the Open in Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac, won by Manuel Apicella , and in July 2005 at the 4th Open in La Fère . He has been a grandmaster since August 2014 . For this he achieved the necessary standards at the Mülhausen GM Festival in July 2008, at the 24th Open in Le Touquet in October 2009 and in the French team championship in 2012 .

Web links

Commons : Jean-Noël Riff  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Jean-Noël Riff on 365Chess.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview from March 25, 2009 (French)
2. ↑ European Club Cups Jean-Noël Riffs on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Swiss National League A 2006 ( Memento from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ IM application (English)
5. ↑ GM application (English)