| Étienne Bacrot | ||
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| Full name | Étienne Bacrot | |
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| Born | January 22, 1983 Picardie, France |
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| Title | Grandmaster | |
| FIDE rating | 2705 (No. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Picardie ( English: Picardy is one of the 26 regions of France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. 23 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list) |
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| Peak rating | 2731 (April 2005) | |
Étienne Bacrot (born January 22, 1983 in Picardie, France) is a French chess grandmaster. The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Picardie ( English: Picardy is one of the 26 regions of France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE.
He started playing at 4; by 10 young Bacrot was already winning junior competitions and in 1996, at 13 years of age, he won against Vasily Smyslov. Vasily Vasiliyevich Smyslov (Васи́лий Васильевич Смысло́в (born March 24, 1921, in Moscow) is a Russian Chess He became a Grandmaster in March 1997 at the age of 14 years and 2 months, making him the youngest person to that date to have held the title (later in December, Ruslan Ponomariov took his record). The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Ruslan Ponomariov (Руслан Пономарьов Русла́н Пономарёв (born October 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian Chess player
He has won several competition and notable games. He first passed the mark of 2700 in Elo rating in 2004. The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. In January 2005, he became the first French player to enter the top 10. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. His highest Elo rating ever was 2731 in April 2005. On the April 2008 FIDE list, Bacrot had an Elo rating of 2705, making him number 23 in the world and France's number 1. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the
Bacrot scored 6/8 in the 37th Chess Olympiad in 2006 against opponents averaging 2640, gaining 13 elo. The 37th Chess Olympiad, comprising an open and women's tournament and the General assembly of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs, took place This earned him the bronze medal for the third best individual performance in the Olympiad. One of his notable wins was against top American grandmaster Gata Kamsky. Gata Kamsky real name Gataulla Rustemovich Sabirov ( Tatar: Ğata Kamskiy Ğataulla Rөstəm uğlı Sabirov Гата Камский Гатаулла Рөстәм улы Сабиров [1]
Bacrot served as one of the four advisors to the world team in the 1999 Kasparov versus the world event. Kasparov versus The World was a game of Chess played in 1999 over the Internet.
He has a son, Alexandre, with Nathalie Bonnafous.
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As well as playing in tournaments and team competitions, Bacrot has since 1995 played an annual six-game match against a prominent player in his home town of Albert. Albert is a commune of the Somme department in Picardy in northern France. In 1996 he beat Vasily Smyslov 5-1, in 1997 lost to Viktor Korchnoi 4-2, in 1998 defeated Robert Hübner 3. Vasily Vasiliyevich Smyslov (Васи́лий Васильевич Смысло́в (born March 24, 1921, in Moscow) is a Russian Chess Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (also Korchnoy Kortchnoy Kortschnoi etc Robert Hübner (born November 6, 1948 in Cologne, West Germany) is a respected German Chess Grandmaster, chess writer 5-2. 5, in 1999 lost to Alexander Beliavsky 3. Alexander Henrikhovich Beliavsky (sometimes transliterated as Belyavsky born December 17, 1953) is a Ukrainian Chess grandmaster. 5-2. 5, in 2000 lost to Nigel Short 4-2, in 2001 tied 3-3 with Emil Sutovsky, in 2002 beat Boris Gelfand 3. Nigel David Short MBE (born June 1, 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire) is often regarded as the strongest British Chess Emil Sutovsky (born 19 September, 1977) is an Israeli Chess Grandmaster. Boris Abramovich Gelfand (born 24 June 1968) is a Chess grandmaster. 5-2. 5, and in 2004 won against Ivan Sokolov 3. Ivan Sokolov (born 13 June 1968) is a Chess grandmaster born in Jajce, SFR Yugoslavia, who currently resides in the 5-2. 5 (there was no match in 2003).