Romain Édouard (born 28 November 1990) is a French

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grandmaster. Born in

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, Édouard has been playing chess since the age of five, and joined his first tournament in 2001. He was trained by fellow French Grandmaster Olivier Renet during his adolescence. He won the 2006

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U16 category at the age of 15, and in 2007 earned his

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title.

Career

Amongst open tournaments, he won at Zaragoza 2008, Bad Wiessee 2008, Andorra 2009, Echternach 2009 and 2010,

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2009/10 and Clermont-Ferrand 2011. There have also been victories in closed events, at Grand Prix de Bordeaux 2007, Antwerp 2011 and Nancy 2012. In August 2012, Édouard jointly won the

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alongside

Christian Bauer Christian Bauer (born 11 January 1977) is a French chess grandmaster and author. He is a three-time French Chess Champion (1996, 2012, 2015). In 2005 he won the 2nd Calvia Chess Festival. In 2009, came first at Vicente Bonil ahead of 21 GMs an ...

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and Etienne Bacrot. In December of the same year, he won the

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Classic tournament edging out Vachier-Lagrave on tiebreaks. Édouard took part in the Grandmaster Group B of the

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2013 in

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finishing sixth out of fourteen participants with a score of 7/13 points. In 2014 he won the

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Open scoring 8/9, a full point ahead of the field. Édouard tied for first in the 2015 World Open, held in Arlington. In July 2015, he won the 3rd AIDEF Chess Championship (French-speaking countries chess championship) in

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. He tied for first in the 2018

with

Tigran Gharamian Tigran Gharamian ( hy, Տիգրան Ղարամյան, born 24 July 1984) is an Armenian-French chess grandmaster. He won the French Chess Championship in 2018. Chess career Gharamian played for Armenia in the Children's Chess Olympiads of 1999 a ...

and

Yannick Gozzoli Yannick Gozzoli (born 2 June 1983) is a French chess grandmaster. Chess career Born in 1983 in Marseille, Gozzoli earned his international master title in 2003 and his grandmaster title in 2012. He is the No. 9 ranked French player as of Augu ...

. Gharamian won the playoff. Édouard has played for the French national team at the

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s of

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and

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, and at the

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s of 2009, 2013 and 2015. In the 2013 event he won the team silver medal and the individual gold on board three.Romain Edouard
team chess record at OlimpBase.org

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External links

Romain Edouard
chess games at 365Chess.com * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Edouard, Romain 1990 births Living people Chess grandmasters French chess players French chess writers Sportspeople from Poitiers