Roza Lallemand

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Roza Lallemand (born August 8, 1961 as Roza Te in North Korea , † August 26, 2008 in France ) was a Korean-Russian chess player who immigrated to France .

biography

Lallemand was born in North Korea to a Russian and a Korean woman, she had five brothers. She lived in Moscow since she was eleven.

She completed a university education in which she studied Russian literature in addition to chess . As a graduation, she received a diploma as a librarian and a master's degree in chess. In the 1990s Lallemand moved to France, she had been married to Daniel Lallemand since 1997 and took French citizenship in the same year .

Lallemand died of a heart attack in her home at the age of 47 , a few days after the French Women's Championship in Pau , where she finished 6th.

Career

In the 1990s, after the iron curtain was opened , Lallemand began playing tournaments in the west. Among other things, she was also in Paris , where she had been invited by the Club André Clauzel . Lallemand was named the women's grandmaster in 2000 , making her the second French player to be awarded the title after Chantal Chaudé de Silans , who received the honorary title in 1990 . In France, she played for the CEMC Monaco until 2005 , with which she won the French team championship in 2002 , then for the Club de Bischwiller , with which she became French women's team champion in 2008 . In the German women's chess league she played for the Krefeld chess club Turm 1851 in the 2000/01 season .

With the French women's team Lallemand took part in the Chess Olympiads in 2000 in Istanbul , in 2002 in Bled and in 2006 in Turin , the European Team Championships for women in 2001, 2003 and 2005 and the Mitropacup 2002 part. She won the European Women's Team Championship in León in 2001 and came second in the 2002 Women's Mitropacup in Saint-Vincent . She took part in several French women 's championships and achieved fourth place as her best result in 2004.

Style of play

The French chess grandmaster Gilles Mirallès described Lallemand as having a strong character. In her game, he praised her ability for sudden attacks and her dreaded "brilliant" victims . She has retained this "romantic" style, which is sometimes missing in the modern game of chess.

Posthumous honor

In 2009, the French Chess Federation decided to host the French women's rapid chess championship from now on under the name Trophée Roza Lallemand .

Roza Lallemand won the first of these annual tournaments in 2002. In the following year she took 2nd place after Maria Leconte , as well as in 2005 with 8/9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Europe Échecs , Daniel Lallemand “À mon épouse Roza”, no 581, October 2008, p. 53
  2. ^ Fédération Française des Echecs - Décès de Roza Lallemand (French), accessed on March 26, 2017
  3. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 85
  4. ↑ Roza Lallemand's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Roza Lallemand's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Roza Lallemand's results in women's Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Blog GM Gilles Miralles - Triste Disparition de Roza Lallemand (French), accessed on March 26, 2017
  8. ^ Fédération Française des Echecs - Trophée Roza Lallemand - 20 et 21 June 2009 - à Rennes (French), accessed on March 26, 2017
  9. ↑ Les Tours de Haute Picardie - Championnat de France féminin - Historique (French), accessed on March 26, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Lallemand, Roza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Te, Roza (maiden name); Te-Lallemand, Roza (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chess player
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH North Korea
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 2008
Place of death France