Laurent Fressinet

Laurent Fressinet ( born November 1, 1981 in Dax ) is a leading French chess grandmaster.

Life

As an 8 -year-old learned Fressinet the rules of chess. In 1995 he was third in the European Championship in Verdun and in São Lourenço (Brazil ) Vice World Champion in the U14 category, also 1999 Vice World Champion in the U18 category. In 2001, he won a major chess tournament in Paris by a 3.5-2.5 - final win over former World Champion Boris Spassky. In 2003 he was runner-up in Belfort, 2004, he won in Andorra. In 2010 he won the first time the French national championship after each runner-up in 2004 and 2006.

Fressinet is married to the Grand Master Almira Scripcenco, with whom he has a daughter since January 2007.

Chess team

National

Since 2000 Fressinet for France took part in six Chess Olympiads (2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 ) in part. From 1999 to 2011 he took part in seven European Team Championships, but he reached in 2001 in León, both with the team and in the individual competition of the reserve players in second place in 2005 in Gothenburg, both with the team and in the individual standings at fourth board in third place.

Chess club

In France played Fressinet to 2006 for NAO Paris, with whom he was in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 French team champion since Clichy - Echecs -92, with which it was in 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2013 champion. In the German Chess Bundesliga Fressinet in the season 2001/ 02 for the SG 1868 Alekhine Solingen, in the season 2002/ 03 in the Lübeck chess club in 1873, with whom he was German team champion in the season 2006/ 07 for the SC Remagen. Since the 2007/ 08 season he plays for Werder Bremen. In the Swiss National League A since 2012 he plays for Mendrisio. The British Four Nations Chess League won Fressinet 2013 Guildford A & DC, where he already was used in the 2005/06 season. The Dutch won Meesterklasse Laurent Fressient 2006 U-Boat Worx / De Variant Breda.