Sébastien Feller

Sébastien Feller, 2017
Association	France
Born	March 11, 1991 Thionville
title	International Master (2007) Grand Master (2007)
Current  Elo rating	2568 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2668 (September 2011)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Sébastien Feller (born March 11, 1991 in Thionville ) is a French chess master .

Career

Feller won or occupied top places in several tournaments: 2. – 3. Place at the tournament in Mulhouse (2006), 1st place at the French U20 junior championship in Le Grand-Bornand (2007), 1st place at the 22nd Open in Le Touquet (2007), 3rd place at the A tournament in Nancy ( 2009) and 1st place at the 1st Grand Prix de l'Essonne tournament in Orsay / Évry (2009) with an Elo performance of 2802. Feller won the Paris Championship in 2010 with an Elo performance of 2859. In 2007 he received the Title International Master , in the same year he became Grand Master .

Team chess

National team

Feller made his debut in the French national team at the 2007 Mitropapokal , which he won with the team. He also played in the French team at the 2009 European Team Championship and the 2010 Chess Olympiad .

Club chess

Feller was already used as an eleven-year-old in the 2001/02 season once in the top French division at Vandœuvre-Echecs , in which he also played a total of eleven times in the first team in the three following seasons. In the 2005/06 season he played for Echiquier Niçois , from the 2006/07 season to the 2014/15 season at Évry Grand Roque , with whom he was French team champion in 2009 . He has been playing for Metz Fischer since 2018 . In the German Chess Bundesliga he played in the 2006/07 season for SC spell in the 2008/09 season for SC Remagen , in the 2010/11 season for Werder Bremen and in the season 2016/17 for the SG-Speyer Schwegenheim . In Belgium, Feller played for Royal Namur Echecs from 2006 to 2008 and for La Tour d'Ans-Loncin from 2010 to 2012 ; Since the 2016/17 season he has been playing for Schachfreunde Wirtzfeld , with whom he became champion in 2018 . In the Luxembourg national division he played in the 2003/04 season in the second team of CE Dudelange , from 2004 to 2008 at Gambit Bonnevoie and from 2008 to 2012 at Le Cavalier Differdange ; since the 2015/16 season he has played for Luxembourg 1915 . In the Swiss Bundesliga , Feller played for Schwarz-Weiss Bern in the 2015/16 season .

Fraud allegations and bans

For the French national team, Feller played at the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk , where he won an individual gold medal for his result on the 5th board. In early 2011, allegations became public that Feller should have resorted to outside help in some of his games in this tournament . National coach Grandmaster Arnaud Hauchard and international champion Cyril Marzolo are involved in the affair . According to this, Marzolo sent the train suggestions made by a computer program by SMS and Hauchard passed them on to Feller on site using agreed signals. After an extensive analysis of the case and assessment of witness statements, the Disciplinary Commission of the French Federation pronounced heavy penalties against those involved. Feller received a five-year ban, two of which are suspended, during which he has to do community service for the chess association. When determining the sentence, Feller's young age was taken into account. The judgments were challenged by Feller in a civil court and the judgment was declared null and void due to a formal error. At the end of July 2012, the FIDE ethics committee imposed a two-year and nine-month ban on Feller.

Web links

Commons : Sebastien Feller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Replayable chess games by Sébastien Feller on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ChessBase Megabase 2010
2. ↑ Sebastien Feller wins Paris Championship (English, accessed November 21, 2010)
3. ↑ 39th Olympiad Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 Open tournament (English, accessed on November 21, 2010)
4. ↑ FIDE Ethics Commission Judgment in the case "French Team" (PDF; 353 kB)