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Showing posts with label Fressinet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fressinet. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Championnat de France de Caen

9 rondes sur 11 ont été jouées dans les nationaux.

Dans le féminin, Sophie Milliet devrait ajouter un 4ème titre à sa collection. L'absence de Sebag (qui préfère jouer en mixte, et elle a bien raison) et Skripchenko (qui préfère jouer au poker, je ne dirais pas qu'elle a raison mais en tout cas c'est sûr que ça rapporte plus) dévalorise forcément un peu le titre et en tout cas affaiblit beaucoup le championnat.

Dans le national c'est encore le panier de crabes puisque 4 joueurs sont à 5,5/9. On retrouve les 3 favoris : the French guy with 2 names (MVL), Bacrot et le champion sortant Fressinet. Ainsi qu'un petit nouveau : Andreï Istratescu (2645), joueur talentueux, entraîneur reconnu et récemment naturalisé. Romain Edouard, vice-champion 2010, conserve une petite chance de départages, un demi-point derrière.

A vrai dire il ne se passe pas grand chose dans ce national... MVL a fait étalage de sa technique pour convertir 2 finales supérieures en début de tournoi mais ne fait que des nulles depuis. Bacrot était à +1 avant sa victoire contre Romain ronde 9. Fressinet serait le plus impressionnant des 3 - et en tête - s'il n'avait pas poussé un peu trop fort contre Le Roux. D'un autre côté il a eu de la chance de gagner au temps contre Shchekachev, ça compense.
Dorfman poursuit son interminable série de nulles en National (11 l'an dernier, 9 cette année), même s'il a manqué des gains hier contre Shchekachev. La routine quoi.

A la limite l'événement serait plutôt extra-sportif, à savoir les 230 pendules volées à mi-tournoi, soit une perte de 10000 à 15000 euros pour la Fédé (j'imagine), qui n'avait pas vraiment besoin de ça cette année avec les frais judiciaires...
Un vol similaire s'étant produit au Championnat de Paris 2010, il va falloir considérer ce problème très sérieusement à l'avenir.

Revenons tout de même aux échecs. Voici ce que j'ai trouvé d'intéressant dans le National après 9 rondes donc : 3 parties commentées et 3 diagrammes.
Au final c'est Bacrot qui fait le spectacle, avec ses 2 brillants gains !

3 parties :




3 diagrammes :

() vs. ()
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Les Noirs ont joué d3 mais ils avaient un brillant gain : Ch4+ Rh1 Txe4!! un coup très impressionnant !

() vs. ()
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Les Blancs se sont montrés négligent en jouant Fd3. Comment les Noirs peuvent-ils en profiter ?

() vs. ()
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Les Blancs ont une Tour de plus. Hélas pour eux c'est nulle ! Ramener le Roi n'y change rien, et en plus les Noirs ont de la marge !

Les parties en direct

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Comments on French championship players

Here are my small comments on each player of the 2010 edition:

1. Laurent Fressinet 8
A big year for this 29y-old player. Among French top 3 for years he earned his first French champion title and crossed the 2700 Elo threshold for the first time. Currently 2717 and among world top 30, this nice guy is currently at his top.

2. Romain Edouard 8
Last year was great for Romain, from 2562 to 2620, being 19y-old. It's more difficult this year, but with this fantastic 2nd place he is back. He won 21 Elo points in this tournament. He has a very strong will to win and works with a very good coach.

3. Etienne Bacrot 7
It's not necessary to introduce him! 6 times French champion, youngest GM in the world at his time (he was 14). He failed to win the title this year but he is not very far from his best Elo ever reached and has strengthened his play with more agressive lines.

4. Christian Bauer 6
A very interesting player, always fighting and playing entertaining chess. I must say I have 100% against this player (but ok it's only on 1 game and a simultaneous one :-)).

5-6. Vladislav Tkachiev 5,5
The 2009 champion was totally out of form in this tournament. He was not lucky too. He will be in the French Olympiad team. He can obviously play very good games.

5-6. Iossid Dorfman 5,5
A very wellknown and experienced trainer (Kasparov, Bacrot, among others) but nowadays a disappointing player. As he already did, this year his made 11 draws in 11 games, some of them very quickly. It's a pity because when he wants to attack he can play fantastic chess.

7. Emmanuel Bricard 5
I like this player. He is always playing very strange openings, home-prepared, very interesting. He is very strong in closed positions and is able to outplay strong grandmasters. He played a very good tournament this year because he was last seed!

8. Andrei Sokolov 4,5
Former n°3 in the world, world championship challenger in the 80', very experienced trainer and very solid player (he can probably draw with white against almost every player in the world). He had a disappointing tournament this year.

9. Hicham Hamdouchi 4,5
Former African champion and first to cross 2600, he lives in France for years and played his first French tournament last year. He had a very good start this year but had a very difficult tournament then, being sometimes unlucky (Edouard, Fressinet).

10. Aliaksei Charnushevich 4
A very solid player, playing for Besançon for years. Fressinet and Bacrot had a hard time to finally beat him with white.

11. Jean-Mard Degraeve 4
An experienced and agressive player. He played some fantastic attacking games. Sometimes he goes too far with his openings, but it's very interesting for spectators. This year he was totally out of form too.

12. Matthieu Cornette 4
One of the French hopes, though he is 25 now. He was a very tactical player (and can still play amazing combinations) but decided to play more solid openings now (a little like me, ha ha). I played 2 times against him, scoring +1 -1. In this tournament his play was quite good but he was unlucky in several endgames.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

French championships outcome

Exciting finish in the 2010 French championship!
In round 10 Edouard catched up Fressinet with a spectacular win against defending champion Tkachiev whereas Bacrot could only draw with black against Hamdouchi and Fressinet quickly with white against Dorfman.

Standing before last round :
1-2. Edouard, Fressinet 7,5
3. Bacrot 6,5
4. Bauer 5,5

Last round encounters :
Sokolov,A (2596) - Edouard,R (2620)
Bacrot,E (2720) - Fressinet,L (2697)
R11 Live (Friday)
(If 2 or 3 players finish equal first, there will be rapid/blitz tie-breaks on Saturday)

In the Women championship, Almira Skripchenko (2458) is champion one round before the end with 7/9.

[Update : Edouard and Fressinet both drew last round with good preparation. In the rapid tie-breaks, Fressinet won 1,5-0,5 and gets his first French champion title.
And guess what: Fressinet and Skripchenko are husband and wife!]

Monday, August 2, 2010

Pamplona

Location : Pamplona, Spain.

Strong closed tournament with an average rating of 2637.
It was the small come back of Russian genius Alexander Morozevich, because his last rated game was played in January. Unfortunately for him (and for chess fans), though beginning with 2,5/3 he had a very difficult tournament, scoring only 4/9 while being top seed, losing some 15,5 points in the process.

Co-winners of the tournament with 6,5/9 (+4 =5) are Polish Radoslaw Wojtaszek, one of Anand's seconds, and French Laurent Fressinet (former Kramnik's second !), who is now rated over the 2700 mark for the first time.
(http://chess.liverating.org/ will probably be updated soon)

Results and games