Oct-30-05 | | aw1988: <suenteus po 147> Any relation? |
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Oct-30-05 | | suenteus po 147: <aw1988> Not that I'm aware of. However, it's possible. I know I come from a long line of Fontaines. But then again, Fontaine is a pretty common name in France. |
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Jan-12-06 | | prinsallan: 147 = Bachs best cantata. Any relation? |
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Jan-17-06 | | Amoceann: Fontaine, I'll bet for Québec, not France. |
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Mar-10-06
 | | WannaBe: Robert is a FR. GM. will be at the Las Vegas Chess Tournament in June. |
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Aug-20-06 | | suenteus po 147: <prinsallan> I've never heard it. But you've given me a good idea of what I should listen to next :) |
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Aug-23-06 | | BIDMONFA: Robert Fontaine FONTAINE, Robert
http://www.bidmonfa.com/fontaine_ro...
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Jan-05-07 | | jenspetersson: Fontaine just won one of Sweden's top tournaments, Rilton Cup, if their live transmission is correct. |
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Jan-05-07 | | Wild Bill: It is correct. Congratulations to M. Fontaine. |
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Jan-09-07 | | trumbull0042: Doesn't Bach mean fountain in German? |
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Jan-09-07
 | | WannaBe: According to Babelfish, Bach in German is brook in English. |
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Jan-10-07 | | Wild Bill: Famous remark attributed to Beethoven: <He should not have been called the Brooke but the Sea.> |
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Apr-03-07 | | gambitfan: Enfin un joueur français sur ce site... Mais pourquoi aucune biographie ? |
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Apr-14-07 | | THE pawn: Qu'est-ce que tu veux dire? Il y a des tonnes de joueurs français sur chessgames. |
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Sep-02-08 | | Billy Vaughan: Oui, je peux trouver au moins les joueurs que je connais déjà ... Etienne Bacrot
Maxime Vachier Lagrave
Laurent Fressinet
Marcel Duchamp (haha !) Et puis ceux qui habitent la France mais qui viennent d'autrepart ... Josif D Dorfman
Vladislav Tkachiev
et sûrement on connais ceci...Alexander Alekhine Dommage qu'ils n'aient pas tous de biographie, mais ils se trouvent ici. |
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Feb-28-09 | | Billy Vaughan: Félicitations pour votre mariage avec Kateryna Lahno ! |
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Nov-18-13
 | | Penguincw: Happy 33rd birthday to French GM: Robert Fontaine. |
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Dec-15-15
 | | ketchuplover: He might be playing at lichess.org |
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Jan-08-17 | | diagonal: French GM and chess journalist Robert Fontaine switched FIDE Federation from France to Monaco last year (Transfer fee Euro 5.000): https://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.... In 2016, Fontaine played occasionally in the decentralised Swiss Team Championship (NLB). |
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Nov-18-19 | | JonathanJ: His marriage to K. Lahno is long over, she's married to Grishuk now according to Wikipedia. |
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Nov-18-19 | | keithbc: No it’s Natalie zhukova that married grischuk |
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Nov-18-19
 | | keypusher: <keithbc: No it’s Natalie zhukova that married grischuk> She did, but....
Alexander Grischuk |
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Nov-18-19 | | diagonal: In November 2018, Fontaine switched again. He plays now for the Federation of Switzerland (transfer Fee Euro 3.500): https://ratings.fide.com/fedchange..... However, at the European Team Chess Championship at Batumi in 2019, Robert Fontaine did not play. The Swiss team members were <Sebastian Bogner>, a former B-player from Germany on board one, followed by <Yannick Pelletier>, then from the younger generation <Nico Georgiadis>, born in 1996, and IM <Olivier Kurmann>. On the reserve board senior <Joe Gallagher>, born in 1964, a well-known writer, British and multiple Swiss National Champion (he has represented his adopted country Switzerland regularly since the mid-1990s at the Chess Olympiad and at the European Team Chess Championship); <Noel Studer> absent, <Vadim Milov> not nominated (another chess player in long time conflict with his Federation). |
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Nov-28-20
 | | Messiah: <JonathanJ: His marriage to K. Lahno is long over, she's married to Grishuk now according to Wikipedia.> I inadverently read "he's married to Grischuk now" and laughed a little bit too hard. |
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