Emmanuel Bricard | |
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Country | France |
Born | Versailles, Yvelines, France | May 4, 1966
Title | Grandmaster (2005) [1] |
Peak rating | 2511 (September 2011) |
Emmanuel Bricard is a French chess grandmaster.
Bricard began playing chess at age 12. [2]
Bricard won the 1993 French Chess Championship, and finished third in the championship of the following year, behind Marc Santo-Roman and Manuel Apicella.
Bricard is also a chess coach, teaching at the Nîmes chess club. [3] In October 2017, he traveled to Tahiti to tutor children in chess. [4] [5]
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