Laurent Fressinet

Laurent Fressinet, 2007
Association	France
Born	November 30, 1981 Dax
title	International Master (1998) Grand Master (2000)
Current  Elo rating	2635 (July 2020)
Best Elo rating	2720 ​​(June 2015)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Laurent Fressinet (born November 30, 1981 in Dax ) is a leading French chess grandmaster .

Life

As an 8-year-old Fressinet learned the rules of chess . In 1995 he was third in the European championship in Verdun and vice world champion in the U14 category in São Lourenço ( Brazil ), and in 1999 also vice world champion in the U18 category. In 2001 he won a major rapid chess tournament in Paris with a 3.5-2.5 final victory over former world champion Boris Spasski . In 2003 he finished second in Belfort and in 2004 he won in Andorra . In 2010 he won the French national championship for the first time after being runner-up in 2004 and 2006. In 2014 he became champion for the second time. At the Chess World Cup took Fressinet 2007 , 2009 , 2011 , 2013 , 2015 and 2017 in part.

Fressinet is married to the Grand Master Almira Scripcenco , with whom he has had a daughter since January 2007.

Team chess

National team

Since 2000, Fressinet has participated in nine Chess Olympiads for France ( 2000 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2016 and 2018 ), winning the individual ranking on the fourth board in 2016. From 1999 to 2011 as well as 2015 and 2017 he took part in nine European team championships , in 2001 in León he reached second place both with the team and in the individual standings of the reserve players, in 2005 in Gothenburg both with the team and fourth in the individual standings Board third place.

Club chess

For Werder Bremen in the 2017 Bundesliga finals in Berlin

In France, Fressinet played for NAO Paris until 2006 , with whom he became French team champion in 2003 , 2004 , 2005 and 2006 , then until 2018 for Clichy-Echecs-92 , with whom he was in 2007 , 2008 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2016 and 2017 Champion became, and since 2019 for the team of Bischwiller , with which he won the title in 2019 .

In the German Federal Chess League Fressinet played in the 2001/02 season for SG 1868-Aljechin Solingen , in the 2002/03 season at the Lübeck Chess Club of 1873 , with which he became German team champion, for SC Remagen in the 2006/07 season . He has been playing for Werder Bremen since the 2007/08 season . He has been playing for Mendrisio in the Swiss National League A since 2012. Fressinet won the British Four Nations Chess League in 2013 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 with the team from Guildford A&DC , where he was already used in the 2005/06 season.

Laurent Fressinet won the Dutch Meester class in 2006 with U-Boat Worx / De Variant Breda . In Belgium he played from 2005 to 2007 at Royal Namur Echecs , in the 2011/12 season with the Master Cercle des Echecs de Charleroi and since the season 2015/16 for the Koninklijke Gentse Schaakkring Ruy Lopez , with whom he was in 2016 champion. In the Spanish team championship he played in 2004 for the champions CA Intel-Tiendas UPI Mancha Real , in 2012, 2014 and 2015 for the team of Sestao XT , with which he won the title in 2012 . In the Hungarian team championship, Fressinet plays for MTK Budapest in the 2019/20 season .

At the European Club Cup Fressinet took in 2002 and 2005 NAO Paris part (where he won in 2003 and 2004 with the team and in 2005 the third place achieved), 2007 with Clichy-Echecs-92 , 2009 and 2010 with Werder Bremen and 2014 with Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova .

Web links

Commons : Laurent Fressinet  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Laurent Fressinet on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laurent Fressinet's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open team line-up with individual results - Open France. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed June 2, 2019 . 
3. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open team line-up with individual results - Open France. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed June 2, 2019 . 
4. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open Board Prizes (final score after 11 rounds) - Open. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed June 2, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Laurent Fressinet's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Laurent Fressinet's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Laurent Fressinet's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)