Marie Sebag
Rachel Marie Sebag (* October 15, 1986 in Paris ) is a French chess player.
Individual successes
Sebag is two -time French champion, she won her first title in 2000 at the age of 14 years and repeated the success two years later. International she won three times at European Youth Championships Girls, her first title of the sub -12 -year-olds ( U12 ) in 1998 followed by 1999 and 2002, more in the categories U14 and U16. In the next World Championship Under -18s she was third ( world champion was the German Elisabeth Pähtz ), two years later, in the - year 2004 - it was divided first, but the title went to fine summary of the Polish Jolanta Zawadzka.
In 2006 they failed in the Women's World Championship, which was held in the knockout system, in the quarterfinals after random battle at the Russian Svetlana Matwejewa.
Marie Sebag bears the title of Grandmaster Women ( WGM ) and, since 2008, the Grandmaster title of men ( GM). The required standards they scored in the top 16 in 2005/ 06, the discharged in Vlissingen in August 2007 Hogeschool Zeeland eleventh Open and at the European Championships in April and May 2008 in Plovdiv.
Your current Elo rating is 2490, so that it is ranked 16 in the world ranking of women (as of March 2014), their highest ever Elo rating was 2537 in March 2013.
Chess team
National
Marie Sebag participated with the French national team of women in the Chess Olympiads in 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2010. At European Team Championships for women took Sebag 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013 in part, where it was 2001, both European team champion as also won the individual competition on the second board.
Chess club
In the German women's Bundesliga Sebag played from 2001 to 2003 for the SC Sea Bauer Kiel ( for which it was reported in the 2003/04 season, but was not used ), in the season 2004/ 05 for the SK Holsterhausen, 2005-2007 for the SV Walldorf in 1947 and since 2012 for the SC Bad Königshofen. In the French League operation she played in the 2001/02 season for NAO Caissa, 2002-2004 Association for Cannes Echecs, 2004-2007 Evry Grand Roque for, 2007, she moved to Chalons En Champagne. In the 2010/11 season played in Sebag Lutèce Echecs, in the 2012/13 season at Evry Grand Roque. The French team championship won Marie Sebag 2010, Châlons -en -Champagne, the French team Women's Championship 2004 Cannes, in 2006 and 2013 with Evry. In the season 2006/ 07 was Marie Sebag with Cercle Royal d ' Echecs de Liège Belgian team champion. In the following European Cup competition for club teams ( 2007, Kemer ), the European Club Cup, she played for the club in Liège on top board. In the British Four Nations Chess League Sebag played in the seasons 2003/ 04 and 2005/ 06 in the North West Eagles.