39th French Chess TOP 12
(see all-time tournament summary) |
| Dates: |
26th May - 5th June 2018 |
| City: |
Brest (France) |
| Location information: |
Finistère, Brittany. All eleven rounds were played at one venue. |
| Venue: |
Halle des sports de l’Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 12 rue de Kergoat, 29200 Brest. |
| Organizers: |
Fédération Française des Échecs, Ville de Brest, Brest Métropole, Université de Bretagne Occidentale and USAM Échiquier Brestois. |
| Tournament Director: |
Stéphane Escafre (FFE group director). |
| Chief Arbiter: |
Pierre Lecuyer. |
| Arbiters: |
Laurent Lecornu and Stéphane Escafre (deputy arbiters). |
| Other officials: |
Christophe Philippe (press and event contact); Réza Salami (local organization). |
| Eligible: |
Registered squads of up to 16 players, including at least one French woman and one French man. Each match: eight players, including at least one French man and one French woman, and at least five eligible French/EU-resident/long-term resident players. At most three transferred players. Minimum registration Elo 2000 except the compulsory French woman. |
| Seeding: |
May 2018 ratings. If two players differ by more than 100 Elo points, the higher-rated player must play above the lower-rated player. |
| Teams participating: |
12 teams: nine retained from 2017; Metz Fischer, Évry Grand Roque and CE de Monte Carlo promoted from Nationale I. |
| Players participating: |
190 (incl. 91 GMs, 33 IMs, 6 WGMs, 16 FMs, 7 WIMs and 10 WFMs) |
| Games played: |
528 |
| Competition format: |
Single round robin, 11 rounds, eight boards per match. |
| Final order decided by: |
Match points; head-to-head match points, score difference and wins; overall score difference and wins; then score differences board by board. |
| Match winner: |
Drawn boards are omitted from match scores. Win 3 match points, draw 2, played loss 1, team non-appearance 0; administrative loss 1. |
| Time control: |
90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to finish, with a 30-second increment per move throughout. |
| Website: |
https://brest2018.ffechecs.org/ |
| Other websites: |
FFE :: 2018 match sheets and calendar
Official final report |
| Sources: |
FFE: all 528 board entries and 66 match scores checked; official 190-player registered squads; FIDE May 2018; original complete TWIC PGN; primary Mulhouse and Metz season reports. |
| Documents: |
Official registered squads; FIDE May 2018; 2018 competition regulations; Mulhouse: contemporary season bulletin; Arbiters: Russian Chess Federation tournament record. |
| Data notes: |
All 528 games contain moves. Sporting results and moves are preserved. Round 4, board 7, Burri–Iglesias: PGN gives 1-0, FFE gives a draw; the Mulhouse bulletin independently gives the match as 6-0 and Burri 4.5/10, supporting the sporting PGN. The cause of the FFE discrepancy is unverified. Round 11, board 7, Shchekachev–Terrieux: played draw, later administrative 0-1 for violating the 100-point board-order rule, confirmed by Metz. Both team-score adjustments are stored in _wyniki.txt; no played game is marked as an unplayed forfeit. Registered names, titles, federations, women and Elo are checked against the May 2018 FIDE list. |
| PGN game file: |
18france.pgn |
| The official organizer confirms Évry, Monaco and Vandœuvre as the relegated clubs; the French Wikipedia infobox is incorrect. Numerical board rankings use the established OlimpBase statistical method; only the first-board award to David Navara was independently confirmed in a contemporary club report. |
