Marie Sebag

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Marie Sebag
Full name Marie Rachel Sebag
Country Flag of France France
Born October 15, 1986 (1986-10-15) (age 21)
Paris, France
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2521
(No. 8 on the April 2008 FIDE rating list for women)
Peak rating 2521 (April 2008)

Marie Sebag (born October 15, 1986 in Paris, France) is a French chess player, who won the French Chess Championship for women in 2000 and 2002.

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[edit] Tournament results

In 1998 Sebag won the European Youth Chess Championship (girls under-12), a feat she repeated the next year (girls U14) and in 2002 (girls U16). In 2004 she shared first place in the World Youth Chess Championship in the category girls U18 with Jolanta Zawadzka, who defeated her in the tie-break. In 2006 she reached the quarter-finals during the Women's World Chess Championship, in which she lost to Svetlana Matveeva.

[edit] Titles

Sebag was already an IM and a WGM when she scored her second GM norm during the Hogeschool Zeeland tournament in Vlissingen in August 2007[1], where she won a game against former FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov.[2] By securing a third norm during the European Individual Chess Championship she qualified for the title of Grandmaster in May 2008.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ End report HZ Tournament. www.chessvibes.com (2007-08-13). Retrieved on 2008-04-11.
  2. ^ Marie Sebag vs Rustam Kasimdzhanov. ChessGames.com (2007-08-06). Retrieved on 2008-04-11.
  3. ^ IX Championnat d’Europe Individuel. Europe échecs (2008-05-02). Retrieved on 2008-05-02.

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