Laurent Fressinet

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Laurent Fressinet
Full name Laurent Fressinet
Country  France
Born (1981-11-01) November 1, 1981
Dax, France
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2709 (February 2014)
(No. 50 in the January 2012 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating 2718 (September 2010)

Laurent Fressinet (French pronunciation: [loʁɑ̃ fʁɛsiˈnɛ]; born November 1, 1981 in Dax, France) is a French chess Grandmaster.

He won the French Chess Championship in 2010.

In 2012 he finished second in the European Individual Championship in Plovdiv.

Twice runner-up at the European Blitz Championship in 2006 and 2007 and French Rapid Chess Champion in 2009 and 2011, Fressinet won the last leg of the French Rapid Grand-Prix in Villandry and finished second in the Grand-Prix Final in Ajaccio in 2012.

In the 2013 Alekhine Memorial tournament, held from 20 April to 1 May, Fressinet finished sixth, with +1−1=7.[1]

Personal life

He is married to Almira Skripchenko.

References

  1. "Aronian and Gelfand win Alekhine Memorial 2013". ChessBase News. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013. 

External links

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