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🏆 French Team Championship (2015)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, Dmitry Jakovenko, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, David Navara, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Etienne Bacrot, Maxim Matlakov, Arkadij Naiditsch, Alexander Riazantsev, Krishnan Sasikiran, Laurent Fressinet, Loek van Wely, Ivan Sokolov, Markus Ragger, Romain Edouard, Christian Bauer, Michal Krasenkow, Sergey A Fedorchuk, Evgeny Postny, Sebastien Feller, Alexander Ipatov, Grzegorz Gajewski, Pavel Tregubov, Maxime Lagarde, Vladimir Baklan, Kamil Miton, Alexandr Fier, Viorel Iordachescu, Ivan Salgado Lopez, Alexander Donchenko, Eduardas Rozentalis, Andrei Sokolov, Jules Moussard, Yuri Solodovnichenko, Sebastien Maze, Hichem Hamdouchi, Yannick Pelletier, Dmitry Svetushkin, Matthieu Cornette, Aleksander Mista, Tornike Sanikidze, Philipp Schlosser, Iossif Dorfman, Renier Vazquez Igarza, Igor-Alexandre Nataf, Jean-Marc Degraeve, Jean-Pierre Le Roux, Fabian Doettling, Anatoly Vaisser, Bart Michiels, Krisztian Szabo, Adrien Demuth, Manuel Apicella, Fabien Libiszewski, Pierre Bailet, Marie Sebag, Slim Belkhodja, Axel Delorme, Jean-Noel Riff, Francois Fargere, Vladimir Hamitevici, Jean-Rene Koch, Glenn Flear, Samy Shoker, Aleksandar Colovic, Sebastien Cossin, Axel Smith, Jonathan Dourerassou, Vitali Koziak, Paul Velten, Gabriel Flom (Battaglini), Borya Ider, Anthony Wirig, Cyril Marcelin, Miguel Llanes Hurtado, Almira Skripchenko, Eloi Relange, Nicolas Brunner, Kevin Terrieux, Deimante Daulyte-Cornette, Darko Anic, Christophe Philippe, Richard Pile, Anastasia Savina, Luc Bergez, Antoine Favarel, Quentin Burri, Mustapha Nezar, Sophie Milliet, Philippe Brochet, Jean Netzer, Thomas Dionisi, Pauline Guichard, Xavier Bedouin, Colomban Vitoux, Silvia Alexieva, Romain Picard, Timothee Heinz plus 33 more players.

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
French Team Championship (2015)

Played in Le Grau-du-Roi, France 30 May - 9 June 2015. Official site: https://grauduroi2015.ffechecs.org/. TWIC: http://theweekinchess.com/chessnews...

 page 1 of 22; games 1-25 of 529  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Ipatov vs M Matlakov  ½-½802015French Team ChampionshipD18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch
2. C Bauer vs Vachier-Lagrave 0-1712015French Team ChampionshipB25 Sicilian, Closed
3. Jakovenko vs M Cornette 1-0322015French Team ChampionshipB31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation
4. So vs Duda ½-½392015French Team ChampionshipC95 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer
5. Fressinet vs S Shoker  ½-½612015French Team ChampionshipA00 Uncommon Opening
6. S Maze vs P Tregubov  0-1502015French Team ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
7. H Hamdouchi vs V Koziak  ½-½202015French Team ChampionshipC47 Four Knights
8. M Congiu vs A Skripchenko  ½-½352015French Team ChampionshipB31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation
9. A Demuth vs F Doettling 0-1462015French Team ChampionshipD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
10. Olexander Baklan vs S Tranchant  ½-½272015French Team ChampionshipB27 Sicilian
11. J Saada vs I Nataf  ½-½432015French Team ChampionshipA48 King's Indian
12. T Sanikidze vs R Picard  1-0202015French Team ChampionshipE82 King's Indian, Samisch, double Fianchetto Variation
13. X Bedouin vs A Vaisser  1-0392015French Team ChampionshipC09 French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line
14. M Sebag vs C Picard  1-0552015French Team ChampionshipC03 French, Tarrasch
15. V Fougerit vs T Heinz  1-0902015French Team ChampionshipC03 French, Tarrasch
16. L Roos vs Ines Leriche  1-0242015French Team ChampionshipA34 English, Symmetrical
17. A Donchenko vs Dorfman  1-0392015French Team ChampionshipA15 English
18. K Szabo vs Y Solodovnichenko  ½-½292015French Team ChampionshipB80 Sicilian, Scheveningen
19. P Bailet vs B Michiels  ½-½322015French Team ChampionshipD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
20. M Apicella vs N Brunner  1-0612015French Team ChampionshipC11 French
21. V Hamitevici vs M Llanes Hurtado  1-0342015French Team ChampionshipE00 Queen's Pawn Game
22. R Pile vs M Nezar  ½-½752015French Team ChampionshipA37 English, Symmetrical
23. B Le Corre vs A Colovic  ½-½252015French Team ChampionshipB80 Sicilian, Scheveningen
24. C Forestier vs F Steil-Antoni  0-1562015French Team ChampionshipB06 Robatsch
25. Giri vs V Iordachescu 1-0412015French Team ChampionshipE90 King's Indian
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Kibitzer's Corner
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Jun-01-15  Bruce Graham: What? No So-bots pumping their guy? Why am I first?
Jun-01-15  jphamlore: These team events seem to be the venue where one can find a 2400 capable of taking the scalp of a 2700, especially when the 2400 has the White pieces:

J Moussard vs R Wojtaszek, 2015

Jun-01-15  jakaiden: 2 more GM scalps...

Naiditsch vs A Donchenko, 2015

Y Solodovnichenko vs A Giri, 2015

Jun-01-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: Website: http://grauduroi2015.ffechecs.org/c....

Live Games (for R4): https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t....

Team Line-ups: http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Actus/873....

Jun-01-15
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  Penguincw: P.S. I don't see any major scalps today. The largest upset (rating) was 129 rating points (it was between 2 FMs, 2225 vs. 2354). 7 GMs lost today, but they were all against someone rated higher than them.

As for draws, Fressinet (2712) couldn't beat compatriot Brochet (2382) with white, but "Clichy" still crushed "Montpellier" 6 1/2-1 1/2, so I doubt anyone's mad at Fressinet...

Jun-01-15  jith1207: <Bruce Graham> Probably because they don't know So is playing in a French championship, or because they are hurt due to that.
Jun-01-15  shintaro go: Did Jakovenko drop out of Clichy? He has only played one game thus far
Jun-01-15  LuckyChucky: Sobots in evidence on Chessbomb, and happily, the more obsessive ones are hibernating (or voted out)
Jun-02-15  paavoh: Tuff going for the infamous S Feller, 0.5/4 so far.
Jun-02-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <paavoh: Tuff going for the infamous S Feller, 0.5/4 so far.>

He has notched one draw: have staff been checking for evidence of silicon assistance in that game?

Jun-02-15  HowDoesTheHorsieMove: There appear to be a lot of misspellings at the bottom of the list. (e.g. Maxime Vachier-Lagarde)
Jun-02-15  cro777: The main favorites, the defending champion Clichy Echecs 92 and Bischwiller are leading after four rounds with perfect score, but with disappointing results of 2700+ players in today's round 4 against lower rated opponents (barracudas).

On top boards Jakovenko, So and Fressinet (Clichy) as well as Giri (Bischwiller) drew their games while Bacrot and Naiditsch (Bischwiller) lost with the white pieces(!)

It seems that round 6 might be decisive: Clichy meets Bishwiller.

Jun-03-15
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  offramp: <paavoh: Tuff going for the infamous S Feller, 0.5/4 so far.>

Of course, Sebastien Feller out of top-class practice. He has done his time! As long as he doesn't reoffend then I think his offence should be put in the past.

When he was caught he was playing for a team (although he did win a prize). He was in cahoots - incredibly - with his team captain!

Jun-03-15
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  offramp: <cro777: ...It seems that round 6 might be decisive: Clichy meets Bishwiller.>

Bishwiller...Bishwiller...Hmm. Aren't they mentioned in a song by Queen?

Jun-03-15  cro777: Bischwiller is a commune in Alsace in northeastern France. Due to its large Turkish minority, it is often dubbed "Turkwiller".

Christian Goodnight, born Christian Gutknecht in Bischwiller, is a direct-line ancestor of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Jun-03-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: <cro777> I hope I didn't seem too flippant. I, even as a European, have huge respect for all Kenyans and especially the Obama clan.
Jun-03-15  cro777: <offramp> What is the connection between Obama and Bischwiller?

In effect, Obama is of biracial background. His father was a black Kenyan and his mother was white of European descent. Stanley Armour Dunham was Obama's maternal grandfather. Dunham’s distant cousins include Hans Gutknecht, a Swiss German from Bischwiller, Alsace whose three sons resettled in Germantown, Pennsylvania as well as the Kentucky frontier in the mid-18th century.

Bischwiller ("Field of Bishop") is a small town, but "Le Cercle d’Echecs de Bischwiller" http://bischwiller-echecs.com/wp-co... is one of the best chess clubs in France.

Welcome to Bischwiller:

http://alsace-echecs.com/wp-content...

Jun-04-15  Nosnibor: Nice win Glenn with your victory over much higher rated Andrei Sokolov.
Jun-04-15  fgh: <chessgames.com>: Jean-Krzysztov Duda should be replaced with Jan-Krzysztof Duda.
Jun-04-15  faulty: Please check the final move of MAZE vs. SMITH (June 4).
Jun-04-15  fgh: Another one: Michael Krasenkow should be Michal Krasenkow.
Jun-04-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: <faulty> thanks for the avertissement!

S Maze vs A Smith, 2015

Jun-05-15  fgh: Today, Feller and Naiditsch gave us nothing but a shorter version of Mamedyarov vs Wei Yi, 2013.

S Feller vs Naiditsch, 2015

Jun-06-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: Stunning! "Clichy" (2590) sweeps "Poitiers-Migné-Auxances" (2251) 8-0! "Clichy" now has 14 match points.

Meanwhile, "Bischwiller" (who have won all 7 matches so far) could have their perfect record ruined by "Mulhouse". "Bischwiller" is currently leading 3 1/2-2 1/2, but one game looks to be going in "Mulhouse"'s favour, and the other looks drawn, so 4-4 is the likely outcome.

Jun-06-15  cro777: Bischwiller defeated Mulhouse Philidor 2-1 (in French leagues draws are not counted).

After 8 rounds, the team of Clichy still trail the team of Bischwiller.

1.Bischwiller 24 points (8 straight wins)

2.Clichy 22

3.Bois-Colombes 21

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