41st French Chess TOP 12
(see all-time tournament summary) |
| Dates: |
24th June - 4th July 2021 |
| City: |
Châlons-en-Champagne (France) |
| Location information: |
Marne, Grand Est. All eleven rounds at a single venue. |
| Venue: |
Palais des Sports Pierre de Coubertin, Châlons-en-Champagne. |
| Organizers: |
Fédération Française des Échecs and L’Echiquier Châlonnais, with Ville de Châlons-en-Champagne, Comité départemental de la Marne, Région Grand Est and Ligue du Grand Est. |
| Tournament Director: |
Stéphane Escafre. |
| Chief Arbiter: |
Éric Delmotte. |
| Arbiters: |
Jordan Akremann. |
| Eligible: |
Eight players per match, including a French man and French woman. The official 2021 list accepted squads of up to 20 players, an exception to the 16-player limit printed in the general 2020/21 rules. At least five eligible French/EU-resident/long-term resident players; at most three transferred players. General registration Elo threshold 2000 except French women. |
| Seeding: |
June 2021 FIDE Elo. If two players differ by more than 100 Elo, the higher rated must play above the lower rated. |
| Teams participating: |
12 of the 16 eligible clubs participated. Six clubs returned from the last played edition (2019); Chartres, Villejuif and Agen qualified for the cancelled 2020 edition, followed by Châlons, Club 608 Paris and Échiquier de l’Erdre in the enlarged eligible field. Participation was optional without relegation for opting out, as confirmed by the FFE General Assembly. |
| Players participating: |
211 (incl. 73 GMs, 32 IMs, 2 WGMs, 29 FMs, 7 WIMs, 2 CMs and 6 WFMs) |
| Games played: |
528 (2 games were forfeited) |
| Competition format: |
Single round robin, eleven rounds, eight boards per match. The planned enlarged Top 16 was played with twelve participating clubs. |
| 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. Châlons precedes Chartres at 26 MP; Vandœuvre precedes Grasse at 21 MP on their direct results. |
| 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://chalons2021.ffechecs.org/ |
| Other websites: |
FFE :: 2021 match sheets and calendar
Official board distinctions |
| Sources: |
FFE: all 66 matches and 528 board entries; official registered squads (22 June 2021); FIDE June 2021; original TWIC games; official organizer and FFE arbiters reports. |
| Documents: |
FFE: registered squads, 22 June 2021; FIDE June 2021; FFE General Assembly: optional participation without relegation; FFE: 2020 cancellation financial report; General 2020/21 regulations, superseded where special provisions applied. |
| Data notes: |
All source moves retained. Moussard–Stephan R3.6 ends in stalemate: corrected the erroneous 0-1 PGN result to a draw, also given by FFE. Seven other individual-result discrepancies and two colour discrepancies between TWIC and FFE remain unresolved; the source PGN is retained for these games, and six match-score differences are recorded in _wyniki.txt without assuming an administrative cause. R7.6 Caille–Bellahcene is a confirmed unplayed forfeit, already present in the source PGN. June FIDE ratings and federations take precedence over inconsistent squad-PDF values; differences are listed in the preparation report. |
| PGN game file: |
21france.pgn |
| 2020 was cancelled due to COVID-19; no played edition or PGN is created for that year. Official board distinctions include Kasimdzhanov and Libiszewski with seven games. These are documented separately from the user-defined OlimpBase statistical rankings requiring eight played games; the official allocation and qualification rules have not been fully recovered. |
