Almira Skripchenko
Almira Scripcenco ( [ skriptʃenko ], French and Almira Skripchenko; born February 17, 1976 in Chişinău ) is a French chess player from Moldova.
Life
The daughter of a Russian and an Armenian ( the woman grandmaster Naira Agababean ) learned as a 5 -year-old chess and made rapid progress: as a 10 -year-old she was already player of the first category. International made Almira Scripcenco in 1992 attracted attention when she won the Junior World Championship U16 age group female and participated with the Moldovan woman selection of the Chess Olympiad in Manila. 1995 her the title of a woman Grand Master was awarded the 1998 an International Master ( of men).
2001 Scripcenco won the European Women's Championship in Warsaw. She participated in two World Championships Women, reaching the second round in 2000, 2001, the quarterfinals. In 2006 she won the French Individual Championship in Besançon.
Since 1996 Scripcenco lives in France and is eligible to play internationally for their new home since 2002. It belonged in 2003 to the founding members of the Association of Chess Professionals ( ACP) and is currently its Treasurer. Your current Elo rating is 2442, so that it occupies the 40th place in the Women's World Ranking (as of February 2014). In January 2002 Scripcenco reached its highest ever Elo rating of 2498th
In recent years Scripcenco took part in international tournaments, so she won at the World Series of Poker 2009 Event 36 No Limit Texas Hold'em in 7th place for 1695 participants and a prize of 78 664 dollars. In 2010 she was awarded the France Poker Award as the best French player.
From 1997 to 2003 Scripcenco was married to the French Grandmaster Joel Lautier. After divorcing Lautier, she married French Grandmaster Laurent Fressinet. Since January 2007, they are parents of a daughter.
8 May 2010 Father Fyodor Fyodorovich Scripcencos, president of the Moldavian Chess Federation had died.
Chess team
National
Almira Scripcenco took from 1992 to 2012 in ten Chess Olympiads of women in part, where they took up five times (1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 ) for Moldova and five times ( 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2012) for France. In European Team Championships Women Scripcenco was five times at the start ( 1992 and 2001 for Moldova, 2003, 2005 and 2007 for France), the most successful she was here in 2001 in Leon, as they both in the team standings as well as in the individual ranking on the first board to the second reaching number.
Chess club
Since 1998 Scripcenco also plays in clubs in Germany, first at SC Holy House, from 2002 at the SC Baden- Oos ( which was renamed in December 2004 OSC Baden- Baden), 2003-2012 Werder Bremen ( and simultaneously to 2005 as a guest player in the woman in the Bundesliga OSC Baden -Baden ) and in the 2012/13 season with the SF 1891 Friedberg. 2005 Scripcenco won with Werder Bremen, the German team championship, the German team championship of women they won with Baden -Baden 2003, 2004 and 2005. In the Dutch Meesterklasse played Almira Scripcenco from 1997 to 1999 for the second team of Panfox / De Variant Breda. Scripcenco won the French team championship in 2003 and 2004 with NAO Paris, 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2013 with Clichy. The French team championship of women she won in 2007 and 2009 with Clichy. At the European Club Cup for Women Scripcenco took nine times in part ( 2000 BAS Belgrade, 2003 ULIM Chişinău, from 2007 to 2013 for CE Monte Carlo ) and won the contest in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013. With the second team of Panfox Breda, they took part in the European Club Cup 1998.