Joel Lautier

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joël Lautier (born 12 April 1973) is a French chess grandmaster. Joel Lautier is one of the strongest Chess Grandmasters from France. He was World junior champion in 1988, and has won the French Chess Championship in 2004 and 2005. He is in 2005 the second best French GM after Étienne Bacrot. He is also one of the founder of ACP, Association of Chess Players (www.chess-players.org). He has been the president of the association in 2004-2005. He is one of only 3 players (the others being Ivanchuk & Svidler) to have beaten every world champion dating back to 1975 (Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Khalifman, Anand, Ponomariov, Kasimdzhanov & Topalov)

In January 2005 his ELO rating was 2678, making him the number 24 rated player in the world.

He beat Garry Kasparov with black pieces in Linares in 1994 (moves given in Algebraic chess notation):

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. Bb3 h6 7. h3 a6 8. Nbd2 Be6 9. Bc2 Ba7 10. Qe2 Qe7 11. b4 d5 12. a4 b5 13. O-O O-O 14. axb5 axb5 15. d4 exd4 16. e5 dxc3 17. exf6 Qxf6 18. Nb3 Nxb4 19. Bb1 d4 20. Rxa7 c2 21. Rxa8 cxb1=Q 22. Rxf8+ Kxf8 23. Qxb5 Qxb3 24. Qb8+ Ke7 25. Qxc7+ Ke8 26. Bd2 Qd8 0-1