40th French Chess TOP 12
(see all-time tournament summary) |
| Dates: |
18th - 28th May 2019 |
| City: |
Brest (France) |
| Location information: |
Finistère, Brittany. All eleven rounds at one venue. |
| Venue: |
UBO university sports hall (SUAPS), 4 rue du Bouguen, Brest. |
| Organizers: |
Fédération Française des Échecs, USAM Échiquier Brestois, Ville de Brest, Brest Métropole and Université de Bretagne Occidentale. |
| Tournament Director: |
Stéphane Escafre. |
| Chief Arbiter: |
Pierre Lecuyer. |
| Arbiters: |
Laurent Lecornu. The organizing report also mentions Madame Lecuyer without identifying her first name or formal role. |
| Other officials: |
Frédéric Baudin (USAM club president); Réza Salami (local partner); Erick Mouret (DGT boards); Mathilde Choisy and Andreea Navrotescu (commentary); Cyril Hameau (video); Sylvain Ravot (technical support); Samuel Bielka (media). |
| Eligible: |
Registered squads of up to 16 players, including at least one French woman and one French man. Eight players per match, including at least one French man and one French woman. At least five eligible French/EU-resident/long-term resident players; at most three transferred players. Registration Elo at least 2000 except French women; if several French women play, only the highest rated receives the match exemption. |
| Seeding: |
May 2019 Elo. When players differ by more than 100 Elo, the higher rated must play above the lower rated. |
| Teams participating: |
12 teams: nine retained from 2018, including reprieved Monaco and Vandœuvre; Asnières, Cannes and Orcher la Tour promoted from Nationale I. Bois-Colombes and Tremblay withdrew; Évry declined reinstatement. |
| Players participating: |
187 (incl. 88 GMs, 35 IMs, 4 WGMs, 18 FMs, 5 WIMs and 11 WFMs) |
| Games played: |
528 (1 game was forfeited) |
| 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. Clichy, Grasse and Nice tied at 24 MP: their three-team mini-league ranks them fifth, sixth and seventh. |
| Match winner: |
Drawn boards are omitted from match scores. Match win 3 MP, 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://brest2019.ffechecs.org/ |
| Other websites: |
FFE :: 2019 match sheets and calendar
Official closing report |
| Sources: |
FFE: all 66 match scores and 528 board positions; official 187-player registered squads; FIDE May 2019; complete TWIC sporting PGN (527 games); official organizers’ reports. |
| Documents: |
FFE: official registered squads; FIDE May 2019; 2019 regulations. |
| Data notes: |
All 527 source games and sporting results were retained. Added the missing result-only forfeit Monpeurt–NN (Metz–Gonfreville, round 4, board 8), confirmed by FFE. No administrative score adjustments were necessary. Registered Hoang, Thi Vui: official squad PDF gives 1861, May 2019 FIDE gives 1837; used FIDE 1837 (FIDE ID 45149194). All other squad Elo values match FIDE. FFE final-table GW/GL for Clichy, Grasse and Nice are mini-league figures (5:4, 4:4, 3:4), not season totals (36:17, 27:14, 31:15). |
| PGN game file: |
19france.pgn |
| A contemporary award report names Maxim Rodshtein on board 4 and Jean Pierre Le Roux on board 7. Rodshtein is assigned to board 3 by the established OlimpBase mean-board calculation, so the reported award and calculated classification differ. The official allocation rule and a complete award list remain unverified. |
