Laurent Fressinet
Laurent Fressinet at the Alekhine Memorial, 2013
CountryFrance
Born (1981-11-30) 30 November 1981
Dax, Landes, France
TitleGrandmaster (2000)
FIDE rating2637 (December 2023)
Peak rating2720 (June 2015)
Peak rankingNo. 27 (September 2010)

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.

Career

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]

References

  1. ↑ Fressinet champion 2010, www.echecs64.com, 21-Aug-2010
  2. ↑ Fressinet Wins French Championship, www.chess.com, 2-Sep-2014
  3. ↑ "Aronian and Gelfand win Alekhine Memorial 2013". ChessBase News. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  4. ↑ Friedel, Frederic (2014-05-20). "Fressinet wins 22nd Sigeman Tournament". ChessBase. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "GM Harikrishna wins Isle of Man International on tie-break". Chessdom. 2015-10-13. Archived from the original on 2018-09-19. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Silver, Albert (1 November 2015). "Cap d'Agde: Laurent Fressinet victorious". ChessBase News. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  7. ↑ Crowther, Mark (25 November 2014). "World Chess Championship closing ceremony: Putin speaks and Carlsen receives his prizes". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "Inside the 2018 World Championship Match". chess24. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  9. ↑ "Bonjour, chess24!". chess24. 2019-04-29. Retrieved 30 April 2019.


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