Joël Lautier

Joël Lautier, Moscow 2012
Association	France
Born	April 12, 1973 Scarborough, Ontario , Canada
title	International Master (1988) Grand Master (1990)
Current  Elo rating	2658 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2687 (January 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Joël Lautier (born April 12, 1973 in Scarborough , Canada ) is a French chess grandmaster .

Life

Joël Lautier, son of a Japanese mother and a Canadian father, first grew up in Canada, where he made a name for himself as a chess prodigy . Lautier came to France at the age of nine , where his enormous talent quickly developed. In 1986 he won the U12 World Youth Championship in Puerto Rico , which was the first ever French World Cup victory in a youth category. In 1988 he became Junior World Champion U20 in Adelaide , when he was 15 he was the youngest winner in the 37-year history of this tournament. His other triumphs at international tournaments include his victories in the Lyon 1990 zone tournament , Polanica-Zdrój 1991, Pamplona 1993, Amsterdam 1995 (before Garri Kasparow ), Úbeda 1997, Enghien-les-Bains 1999 and the Mondariz 2000 zone tournament . In 2003 he won together with Pjotr ​​Swidler in Poikowski .

Due to his shared 2nd – 9th In 1993, Lautier qualified for the next stage of the World Cup cycle at the interzonal tournament in Biel : In the 1994 candidate competition against Jan Timman in Wijk aan Zee, Lautier lost 3.5: 4.5 (+1 = 5 −2). Lautier took part in several FIDE KO World Championships: in 1997 in Groningen and 1999 in Las Vegas he reached the third round, both times he was defeated 2: 4 by Israeli Boris Gelfand after rapid stabbing. In 2000 in New Delhi he was eliminated in the first round, in 2001 in Moscow , where he a. a. Alexander Chalifman defeated, he made it to the last sixteen, where he was defeated by Vasyl Ivanchuk . Lautier is one of the few chess players with a positive result against former world champion Garry Kasparov : +2 = 7 −1.

Lautier received the title of Grand Master from FIDE in 1990 .

In 2004 Lautier became French champion in Val-d'Isère and repeated his success a year later in Chartres . Lautier then increasingly withdrew from professional chess and, as President of the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP), was committed to the rights of professional chess players and the popularization of chess worldwide. Also for the popularization of the Japanese variant of chess, the Shogi . Lautier is also Vice President of the French Chess Federation. From 1997 to 2003 he was married to the Moldovan-French grandmaster Almira Scripcenco . He is listed as inactive by FIDE because he has not played a rated game since the Coupe de France in January 2009. He reached his highest rating of 2687 in January 2002, most recently in the top 20 in the world rankings in March 2002.

National team

Lautier took part with the French national team between 1990 and 2006 in seven Chess Olympiads and between 1989 and 2005 in five European team championships . He was most successful at the 2001 European Team Championships in León , when he and the team reached second place and both won the individual ranking on the second board and achieved the best rating of all participants.

societies

Hans Besser, Joël Lautier and Egon Evertz , Solingen 2002

In France, Lautier played in the 1990s for Lyon-Oyonnax , with whom he won the European Club Cup in 1993 and 1994 , and CS Clichy , from 2001 to 2006 for Paris NAO , with whom he was French team champion in 2003 , 2004 , 2005 and 2006 as well Won the European Club Cup in 2003 and 2004, and for the Club de Chess 15 Paris in the 2006/07 season . Lautier played in the German Federal Chess League in the 1999/2000 season for Godesberger SK , in the 2001/02 season for the Solingen chess company and in the 2002/03 season for the master Lübeck chess club from 1873 . He won the Austrian State League A in 1999 and 2000 with SK Merkur Graz , where he was also registered in the two following seasons, but was not used. Lautier won the Dutch Meester class in 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 and 2006 with De Variant Breda , with which he also won the European Club Cup in 1998.

In the Spanish team championship , Lautier played for CA La Caja de Canarias in 1998 and 1999 and in 2004 for the champions CA Intel-Tiendas UPI Mancha Real .

Shogi

Lautier also likes to play shogi every now and then .

Game example

At the traditional Linares tournament in 1994, Lautier won with the black stones over the then reigning world champion Garry Kasparov in just 29 moves. The game was played in the last, 13th, round. After this defeat, Kasparov shared 2nd and 3rd place with Alexei Schirow , Lautier was shared 5th and 6th (with Vladimir Kramnik ). Anatoly Karpov won the tournament with a phenomenal result of 11 out of 13 and 2.5 points ahead.

1. e2-e4 e7-e5 2. Ng1-f3 Nb8-c6 3. Bf1-c4 Bf8-c5 4. c2-c3 Ng8-f6 5. d2-d3

A calm and unspectacular variant of the Italian game came on the board .

5.… d7 – d6 6. Bc4 – b3 h7 – h6 7. h2 – h3 a7 – a6 8. Nb1 – d2 Lc8 – e6 9. Bb3 – c2 Bc5 – a7

Black plans the pawn advance d6 – d5. Immediate 9th… d6 – d5? is refuted by 10. Nf3xe5! Nc6xe5 (10.… Bc5xf2 + 11. Ke1xf2 Nc6xe5 12. d3 – d4 ±) 11. d3 – d4 Bc5 – d6 (11.… Bc5xd4 12. c3xd4 Ne5 – c6 13. e4 – e5 ±) 12. d4xe5 Bd6xe5 13. Nd2 –F3 ±. (Lautier)

10. Qd1 – e2 Qd8 – e7 11. b2 – b4! d6 – d5 12. a2 – a4 b7 – b5! 13. 0–0 0–0 14. a4xb5 a6xb5 15. d3 – d4?

Instead, 15. Bc1 – b2 with equalization (Lautier) was necessary.

15.… e5xd4

But not 15.… d5xe4? because of 16. Nf3xe5 with White's advantage (Lautier).

16. e4 – e5

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

Position after White's 16th move

16.… d4xc3 !? 17. e5xf6 Qe7xf6 18. Nd2 – b3 Nc6xb4 19. Bc2 – b1 d5 – d4! 20.Ra1xa7 ?! c3 – c2 ?!

Lautier criticized this train and hit in the analysis 20. ... Ta8xa7! what would have given him an advantage.

21.Ra7xa8!

21.Bb1xc2 would be weak? Re8xa7 22. Nb3xd4 (22. De2 – e4 Nb4xc2 23. De4xc2 Be6 – c4 24. Rf1 – d1 d4 – d3– +) 22.… Be6 – c4 23. De2 – e4 (23. De2 – d2 c7 – c5 24. Nd4 – b3 Ra7 – a2– +) 23.… Nb4xc2 24. De4xc2 c7 – c5 with Black winning position.

21.… c2xb1D

Black now has two queens, but the situation is not yet clear.

22.Ra8xf8 + Kg8xf8

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

Position after Black's 22nd move

23.Qe2xb5 ??

Only this move leads to defeat. According to Lautier, 23 Bc1 – g5 !, after which the position would remain in balance.

23.… Qb1xb3 24. Qb5 – b8 + Kf8 – e7 25. Qb8xc7 + Ke7 – e8 26. Bc1 – d2 Qf6 – d8

Even better was 26.… Nb4 – d3! 27. Rf1-a1 Qb3-d5! - +

27. Qc7 – e5 Ke8 – f8 28. Nf3xd4?

Loses quickly. Better, but no salvation, was 28. De5 – c5 + Kf8 – g8 (28.… Qd8 – e7? 29. Qc5xe7 + Kf8xe7 30. Nf3xd4 Qb3 – c4 31. Bd2xb4 + Ke7 – f6 32. Nd4xe6 Qc4xb4 33. Ne6 – c7 Qb4– c4 34. Nc7 – e8 + Kf6 – e7 35. Rf1 – e1 + =) 29. Bd2xb4 Qb3 – c4 (29.… d4 – d3 !?) 30. Rf1 – d1 Qc4xc5 31. Bb4xc5 d4 – d3– + with black winning position ( Lautier).

28.… Nb4 – d3! 29. De5-e3 Qb3-c4

White gave up. 0: 1

Source: Schachinformator 60, Partie Nr. 316, Belgrad 1994, pp. 184–186.

Web links

Commons : Joël Lautier  - collection of images

• Interview Lautiers with the New Germany (at ChessBase)
• Replayable chess games by Joël Lautier on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Wahls : Junior World Championships with surprises . In: JugendSchach , edition 0/88, pp. 3–5 (with picture and games).
2. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 80.
3. ↑ Joël Lautier's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Joël Lautier's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Joël Lautier's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Joël Lautier's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ http://de.chessbase.com/post/lautier-simultan-gegen-drei-shogi-meister