Michel Jadoul

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Michel Jadoul (born September 17, 1957 in Brussels ) is a Belgian chess player . He was named International Master in 1986.

He won the Belgian individual championship several times: 1984 in Huy , 1988 in Huy (shared with Richard Meulders), 1990 in Brasschaat and 1992 in Morlanwelz .

For the Belgian national team he played in three chess Olympiads : 1984 on the first reserve board, 1986 on the third board and 1988 on the second board. In the Olympics he has a positive overall result of 18 points from 30 games (+13 = 10 −7). At the EEC championship in Berlin in 1980 he played for Belgium on board four. Jadoul played club chess in Belgium in the 1980s for Anderlecht , with whom he reached the semi-finals of the European Club Cup in 1986 , from 2003 to 2005 for Boey Temse and in the 2010/11 season for Cercle d'Échecs Fontainois . In the Dutch Meester class he played for Rotterdam from 1999 to 2004 . As white, Jadoul prefers the Larsen opening 1. b3.

Jadoul's Elo rating is 2314 (as of February 2016). He reached his highest Elo rating of 2420 in July 2004.

In the book Smerdon´s Scandinavian by David Smerdon (Everyman Chess, 2015) a central variant of the Scandinavian opening (Portuguese Gambit) is named after Jadoul: 1. e2 – e4, d7 – d5 2. e4xd5, Ng8 – f6 3. d2– d4, Bc8 – g4! ( The exciting and popular Jadoul variation ).

Publications

  • Histoire des Maîtres Belges . Rossel, Brussels 1988 (together with Michel Wasnair)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIDE congress in Dubai in Schachinformator 42, page 418
  2. ↑ Michel Jadoul's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Michel Jadoul's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Jadoul, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels