43rd French Chess TOP 16 :: Chartres 2023

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Basic data

43rd French Chess TOP 16
(see all-time tournament summary)
Dates: 1st - 11th June 2023
City: Chartres (France)
Location information: Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire.
Venue: Salon Marceau, Hôtel de Ville et Agglomération de Chartres, 1 Place des Halles, 28000 Chartres.
Organizers: Fédération Française des Échecs, Ville et Agglomération de Chartres, C’Chartres Échecs.
Tournament Director: Jordi Lopez.
Chief Arbiter: Julien Clarebout (AFE1 / AF).
Arbiters: Georges Bellet and Benjamin Marret (AFE1 / AF), deputy arbiters.
Eligible: Eight boards; a French man and a French woman required. Registered squads: up to 16 players; June 2023 FIDE ratings. The published register is ordered by May Elo, not a fixed playing-board list.
Seeding: June 2023 FIDE ratings; flexible playing order within the 100-Elo restriction. TXT rosters ordered by June Elo for presentation.
Teams participating: 16 teams: twelve retained from 2022, joined by Cappelle-la-Grande, Marseille, Poitiers-Migné and Strasbourg, promoted from Nationale I. All club names and codes already existed in _teams.txt.
Players participating: 255 (incl. 115 GMs, 53 IMs, 3 WGMs, 28 FMs, 4 WIMs and 6 WFMs)
Games played: 704 (6 games were forfeited)
Competition format: Two preliminary groups of eight, seven rounds; the first four of each enter Poule Haute, the others Poule Basse. Four additional matches against the clubs from the other preliminary group. MP is carried from all seven preliminary matches. Final-pool GW/GL includes the seven matches against clubs in the same final pool only.
Final order decided by: MP over all eleven rounds; then head-to-head MP, difference and wins. If still equal, difference and wins against the tied teams and common opponents. Published final-pool board totals exclude opponents in the other final pool.
Match winner: Draws do not contribute to match scores. A match win scores 3 MP, draw 2, played loss 1; team non-appearance 0.
Time control: 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to finish, with 30 seconds added per move throughout.
Website: https://chartres2023.ffechecs.org/
Other websites: FFE :: event, results and official PGNs
FFE :: registered squads
Sources: FFE official four PGN files, all 88 match sheets and four standings; official 253-player register; June 2023 FIDE list; local regulations and official award announcement.
Documents: FFE — registered squads; FIDE June 2023; Local regulations; Season regulations; Official board awards.
Data notes: All 701 played-game move sequences retained; three original empty records represent unnamed absent Strasbourg players. Four wrong player attributions in official PGN repaired using match sheets: Pichot/Hamițevici in R1; Arnaud rather than Rémy Jossien in R3; Rémy rather than Jean-Marc Degraeve in R5. No sporting Result tags changed. Administrative match adjustments: Strasbourg–Tremblay R1 from 0:3 to 0:6; Bischwiller–Strasbourg R2 from 6:0 to 7:0, stored in _wyniki.txt. The register has an incorrect FIDE ID for Vladimir Baklan (14161737; correct 14102196). Unused Serina Pucher has registered national Elo 1199 and no FIDE ID.
PGN game file: 2023france.pgn
Physical forfeits are annotated separately from administrative penalties on games actually played. Player statistics and board rankings cover all eleven rounds; final standings GW/GL covers seven matches within each final pool. Technical NN 7 / NN 8 roster rows identify empty Strasbourg boards and do not represent registered people. The award announcement prints Delorme at 6/9 and 78%; the complete game results give 7/9 (77.8%). Full official board-allocation and qualification rules were not recovered; calculated rankings use the OlimpBase convention.


Tournament review

Asnières won their first French club title, tied with Bischwiller on 29 MP; their last-round meeting was drawn. Chartres finished third and Grasse fourth, both on 28 MP. Marseille won Poule Basse. Vandœuvre, Strasbourg, Cappelle-la-Grande and Poitiers-Migné were relegated.

Best board results

1st Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. GM Donchenko, Alexander GER VNDE 6½ 10 65.0 2665
2. GM Fedoseev, Vladimir FID CAPG 7 11 63.6 2664
3. GM Ivanchuk, Vasyl UKR CHRT 5 8 62.5 2768

2nd Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. GM Narayanan, Sunilduth Lyna IND PHMU 6 8 75.0 2723
2. GM Esipenko, Andrey FID ASNR 6½ 9 72.2 2737
3. GM Fressinet, Laurent FRA BSWL 7 10 70.0 2778

3rd Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. GM Postny, Evgeny ISR METZ 7 10 70.0 2650
2. GM Solodovnichenko, Yuri UKR VNDE 6 9 66.7 2645
3. GM Gharamian, Tigran FRA CE92 5½ 9 61.1 2610

4th Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. GM Salgado López, Iván ESP CHLN 7 9 77.8 2746
2. GM Moussard, Jules FRA ASNR 8 11 72.7 2633
3. GM Rodshtein, Maxim ISR BSWL 7 10 70.0 2607

5th Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. IM Girel, Joseph FRA MARS 7½ 8 93.8 2765
2. GM Cornette, Matthieu FRA ASNR 8 11 72.7 2616
3. GM Maurizzi, Marc'Andria FRA CHRT 8 11 72.7 2591

6th Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. GM Delorme, Axel FRA CE92 7 9 77.8 2588
2. GM Tregubov, Pavel FRA CE92 7½ 10 75.0 2658
3. GM Guliyev, Namig AZE CHRT 6½ 9 72.2 2618

7th Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. IM Milliet, Sophie FRA GRSE 7 11 63.6 2311
2. IM Papadiamandis, Elliot FRA PHMU 3½ 8 43.8 2303
3. IM Philippe, Christophe FRA VNDE 2 8 25.0 2107

8th Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. GM Sebag, Marie FRA BSWL 6½ 8 81.3 2502
2. WFM Schippke, Manon FRA METZ 6½ 9 72.2 2252
3. IM Guichard, Pauline FRA ASNR 6 10 60.0 2291


Official board awards, announced on 13 June 2023:

  1. Board 1: Donchenko, Alexander (VNDE), 6.5/10.
  2. Board 2: Esipenko, Andrey (ASNR), 6.5/9.
  3. Board 3: Postny, Evgeny (METZ), 7/10.
  4. Board 4: Salgado López, Iván (CHLN), 7/9.
  5. Board 5: Girel, Joseph (MARS), 7.5/8.
  6. Board 6: Delorme, Axel (CE92), 6/9.
  7. Board 7: Milliet, Sophie (GRSE), 7/11.
  8. Board 8: Sebag, Marie (BSWL), 6.5/8.

The announcement gives Delorme 6/9 and 78%, an inconsistent pair. The complete game results give 7/9 (77.8%); the source fraction is preserved above for transparency. Calculated performances use June ratings as required by the local regulations and may differ from the award announcement. Official awards are recorded separately from the calculated OlimpBase standings. Full official eligibility and board-allocation rules were not recovered.

Official board awards



Playoffs

No play-off. Places 13–16 relegated to Nationale I.