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Laurent Fressinet

French chess grandmaster (born 1981) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Laurent Fressinet
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Laurent Fressinet (French pronunciation: [loʁɑ̃ fʁɛsiˈnɛ]; born 30 November 1981 in Dax) is a French chess grandmaster. He is a two-time French Chess Champion.

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He won the French Chess Championship in 2010[1] and 2014.[2] In 2012 he finished second in the European Individual Chess Championship in Plovdiv.

Twice runner-up at the European Blitz Championship, in 2006 and 2007, and French Rapid Chess 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.[3] In May 2014 he won the 22nd Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in Malmö, Sweden.[4]

In October 2015, Fressinet tied for 1st–3rd with P. Harikrishna and Gabriel Sargissian at the 2nd PokerStars Isle of Man International Chess Tournament in Douglas, Isle of Man[5] and won the 4th Anatoly Karpov Trophy rapid tournament in Cap d'Agde by defeating Karpov himself in the final 3-1.[6]

Fressinet has been Magnus Carlsen's second during all of his World Chess Championship matches: His 2014 World Championship match with Viswanathan Anand,[7] his 2016 World Championship match with Sergey Karjakin, his 2018 World Championship match with Fabiano Caruana and his 2021 World Championship match with Ian Nepomniachtchi.[8]

In April 2019, Fressinet joined chess24 as lead figure of the site's French team together with Josif Dorfman and Jean-Baptiste Mullon.[9]

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