Étienne Bacrot

Étienne Bacrot ( born January 22, 1983 in Lille ) is a French chess player in the world's elite. He won the French Individual Championship six times.

Étienne Bacrot started with chess at the age of four years. As a ten year old, he won his first international youth championships, and a is the U10 World Cup in 1993 in Szombathely and the U10 European Championship in 1993 in Bratislava. In 1994 and 1995 he won the U12 European Championship in Paris in rapid chess and was in Szeged second in the U12 World Cup, which he won in São Lourenço 1995. One of his first coach was the former USSR champion Josif Dorfman, and later the 13th world chess champion Garry Kasparov.

In 1996, a competition Bacrot win against former world champion Vasily Smyslov 5-1 ( 4, -0 = 2) in Albert, 1998, a success ( 3,5:2,5, 1, -0 = 5) over Robert Hübner in Albert and Berlin, and in 2002 a 3,5:2,5 victory over Boris Gelfand in Albert. In 2001, he played in a draw 3:3 ( 1, -1, = 4) against Emil Sutovsky in Albert.

Bacrot scored required for the award of the Grand Masters title three standards within half a year: the first in October 1996 in Yerevan, the second in January 1997 at the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee and in March 1997 his final norm at the tournament from Enghien -les -Bains. He was in 1997 at the age of 14 years and 2 months of the date world's youngest player to earn the Grandmaster title.

In the 1999/2000 season he played for the SG Porz in the Chess League. From 1999 to 2003 Bacrot was the fifth consecutive French masters. In 2002, he won the tournament in Val d'Isere by tag battle against Joël Lautier. In the inaugural Internet Championship Bacrot defeated the Israeli Emil Sutovsky in the final with 1,5:3,5. Bacrot won the 2004 in Verona, defeating Ivan Sokolov in Albert with 3,5:2,5 ( 2, -1, = 3). In the same year he won at the French team championship all eleven games played by him and became the first Frenchman ever an Elo rating of about 2700.

In 2005 he, together with Viktor Bologan scored a victory at the world-class tournament in Poikowski, the same year in Dortmund a split second rank. At the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk 2005 Bacrot was third after a win against Alexander Grishchuk down fighting and thus qualified for the reintroduction of the FIDE Candidates Tournament for the World Cup. He resigned, however, in the first round with 0,5:3,5 against Gata Kamsky. In August 2008, he was named after a playoff victory ( 1.5:0.5 ) against Maxime Vachier -Lagrave again French national champion. In February 2009 he won with 6.5 points from nine rounds of the Aeroflot Open in Moscow by Rating before the Ukrainian Grandmaster Alexander Moiseenko, thus securing an invitation to the Dortmund Chess days.

In 1996 played Bacrot - the age of 13 - for the first time for the French national team at a Chess Olympiad. In his fourth Olympics, Turin 2006, he won a single bronze medal for his performance on the first board ( 4 -0 = 4). At the Chess Olympiad 2008 in Dresden, he scored on top board 6.5 points from ten games. In the chess Bundesliga since the 2005/2006 season playing for the OSG Baden -Baden.

Bacrot lives in Carqueiranne. Bacrot is the No. 7 Chess960 World Ranking (as of 1 February 2009) with a WNCA -IPS (Individual Player Strength of the World New Chess Association ) of 2761st