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Laurent Fressinet

Laurent Fressinet
Laurent Fressinet 2013 (2).JPG
Laurent Fressinet at the Alekhine Memorial, 2013
Country  France
Born (1981-11-30) 30 November 1981 (age 35)
Dax, Landes, France
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2665 (April 2017)
Peak rating 2720 (June 2015)

Laurent Fressinet (French pronunciation: ​[loʁɑ̃ fʁɛsiˈnɛ]; born 30 November 1981 in Dax) is a French chess Grandmaster.

He won the French Chess Championship in 2010 and 2014. 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 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. In May 2014 he won the 22nd Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in Malmö, Sweden.

Fressinet was one of Magnus Carlsen's seconds during his 2014 World Championship match with Viswanathan Anand.

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 and won the 4th Anatoly Karpov Trophy rapid tournament in Cap d'Agde by defeating Karpov himself in the final 3-1.


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