Biography |
Outstanding French Grandmaster (1997). Starting chess at just 4 years old, he went on to become the World Champion and European Champion of U10 (1993) and U12 (1995). Best French player since 2002. In 2008 he scored his 6th French Champion title, which made him enter into the hall of fame. After crushing the former World Champion Vassily Smyslov 5-1, he was awarded the title of IM at 12 years old. At 13 he was already a member of the French team at the Olympiad of Yerevan (1996) when he scored his first IGM norm. In 1997, after a second norm in Wijk aan Zee, he won its first major tournament at Enghien and became, at 14 years and 2 months, the youngest Grandmaster of chess history. He was invited to the World Championship in 1997 and in 2000 without too much success. In 1999 he beat Ponomariov at the Lausanne Youth Masters and Judith Polgar in a exhibition match 3-1. He succeeded in Bermuda in 1999, Linares Anibal 2001, and again Lausanne Masters in 2003. A participant in the World Championship 2004 he also won the tournament of Verona. In 2005 he won the Anatoly Karpov tournament. In 2009 he succeeded in Aeroflot Open and in 2010 in the Geneva Open. In match play, he beat Boris Gelfand 3½-2½ and lost to Gata Kamsky 3½-½ in 2007 at the World Championship Candidates’ matches. A fast player, he achieved some interesting performance in rapid chess such as: Cannes in 1998, 2001 and in 2003 when he was a quarter finalist at the 2003 World Rapid Championship. Bacrot has worked with Iosif Dorfman, Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Alexander Nikitin the former coach of Garry Kasparov and Yannick Pelletier. Best ELO: 2731 - he was the 9thbest world ranked player.
Carlsen-Barcot in 2010
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19.02.2012
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