Léo Battesti is a Corsican chess enthusiast, activist, and retired politician and militant.
The French Chess Championship is the annual, national chess tournament of France. It was officially first played in 1923 after the formation of the Fédération Française des Echecs in 1921. The first unofficial national tournament was played in 1880, in the Café de la Régence, where further edition were held in 1881 and 1883. The 1903 and 1914 tournaments were the first real predecessors of the official championship. They ran under the name Championnat de France des amateurs.
Puchen Wang is a New Zealand chess International Master. He became the New Zealand Champion, Rapid Champion and Lightning Champion in January 2007 when he was 17.
Jean Hébert is a Canadian chess player, writer, journalist, and commentator who holds the ICCF title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and the FIDE title of International Master. The winner of the Canadian Chess Championship in 1978 and 2009, he also tied for the title in 2007, but lost in playoffs. He represented Canada at the 1979 Interzonal tournament as well as seven times at Chess Olympiads. Hébert also took part in the Chess World Cup 2009, but was knocked out by Peter Svidler in the first round.
Anatoly Vaisser is a Soviet-born French chess player. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1985, he is four-time world seniors' champion.
Cappelle-la-Grande is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
The first Paris City Chess Championship was held in 1925. Since 1989 the title of Paris Champion has been awarded to the highest-placed French player licensed in Île-de-France for the current and previous season.
The INSEEC School of Business and Economics is a French private business school grande école and a member of the French Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE).
Bogdan Lalić is a Croatian chess grandmaster. He has the record of an unbeaten streak of 155 games.
Pavel Vladimirovich Tregubov is a Russian chess player who represents France. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. Tregubov was European champion in 2000.
Éric Prié, born 14 March 1962 in Paris, is a French chess player, International Grandmaster since 1996, currently playing for Montpellier Échecs. He won the title of French Champion in 1995 and of Paris Champion in 1982, 1983, 1992 and 1996. He was part of the French team in the 29th, 31st, and 32nd Olympiads.
Jean-Marc Degraeve is a French chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1998.
Kaido Külaots is an Estonian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001.
Sergey Fedorchuk is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002.
Richard Wang is a chess international master from Canada. Wang became the second youngest International Master in Canadian history at the age of 13 at the 2012 Canadian Closed Chess Championships (Zonal) held in Montreal, Canada. Other notable achievements include winning two bronze medals at the World Youth Chess Championship: the first in 2009 in the U12 Boys section and the second in 2012 in the U14 Boys section. He is one of the few Canadians to win more than one medal at the WYCC.
Namig Guliyev is an Azerbaijani chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 2005.
Roza Lallemand was a French chess player of North Korean origin who was raised in the Soviet Union. She was European chess champion in 2001 and represented France several times at the Chess Olympiad.
Gilles Mirallès was a French chess grandmaster.
Mikhail Rustamovich Kozakov is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster (GM) in 2001 by the FIDE.
Luc Winants was a Belgian chess player. He became an International Master in 1986 and an International Grandmaster in 1988. At the time of his death, he had an Elo rating of 2512.
Waldemar Hanasz (Poland)
Sergey Smagin (Soviet Union)
Joseph Gallagher (England)
Jonny Hector (Sweden)
Evgeniy Solozhenkin (Russia)
Gennadi Kuzmin (Ukraine)
Alexander Nenashev (Uzbekistan)
Ľubomír Ftáčnik (Slovakia)
Jean-Marc Degraeve (France)
Darius Ruželė (Lithuania)
Simen Agdestein (Norway)
Mikhail Gurevich (Belgium)
Gilberto Milos (Brazil)
Philipp Schlosser (Germany)
Kaido Külaots (Estonia)
Zoltan Gyimesi (Hungary)
David Shengelia (Georgia)
Wang Yue (China)
Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan)
Vasilios Kotronias (Greece)
Erwin L'Ami (Netherlands)
Pentala Harikrishna (India)
Maxim Rodshtein (Israel)
Eric Hansen (Canada)
Vlad-Cristian Jianu (Romania)
Alexei Fedorov (Belarus)
Axel Bachmann (Paraguay)
Gata Kamsky (United States)
Momchil Nikolov (Bulgaria)
Jesper Søndergaard Thybo (Denmark)
Lorenzo Lodici (Italy)
