Laurent Fressinet (; born 30 November 1981 in
Dax) is a French
chess
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grandmaster. He is a two-time
French Chess Champion.
Career
He won the
French Chess Championship in 2010 and 2014. In 2012 he finished second in the
European Individual Chess Championship
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Apart from determining the European champions (open and women's), ...
in
Plovdiv.
Twice runner-up at the European
Blitz
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Championship, in 2006 and 2007, and French
Rapid Chess
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Champion in 2009, 2011 and 2022, 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. In May 2014 he won the 22nd Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in
Malmö
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, Sweden.
In October 2015, Fressinet tied for 1st–3rd with
P. Harikrishna and
Gabriel Sargissian at the 2nd
PokerStars
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Isle of Man International Chess Tournament in
Douglas, Isle of Man and won the 4th
Anatoly Karpov
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Trophy rapid tournament in
Cap d'Agde
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by defeating Karpov himself in the final 3-1.
Fressinet has been
Magnus Carlsen
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's
second during all of his
World Chess Championship
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The first event recognized as a world championship was the 1886 match ...
matches: His
2014 World Championship match with
Viswanathan Anand
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, his
2016 World Championship match with
Sergey Karjakin
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, his
2018 World Championship match with
Fabiano Caruana and his
2021 World Championship match with
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi ( rus, Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий, r=Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, p=ˈjan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈpomnʲɪɕːɪj, a=Ru-Ian Alexandrovich Nepomnyashchij.ogg; born 14 J ...
.
In April 2019, Fressinet joined
chess24 as lead figure of the site's French team together with
Josif Dorfman
Josif (Josef, Iossif, Iosif) Davidovich Dorfman (born 1 May 1952, Zhytomyr) is a Soviet-French chess Grandmaster, coach, and chess writer.
Tournament results
Dorfman played in several USSR championships. In 1975, he took thirteenth in Yerevan ...
and Jean-Baptiste Mullon.
References
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1981 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
French chess players
People from Dax, Landes
Sportspeople from Landes (department)
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