45th French Chess TOP 16 :: Belfort 2025

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Basic data

45th French Chess TOP 16
(see all-time tournament summary)
Dates: 22nd May - 1st June 2025
City: Belfort (France)
Location information: Territoire de Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Venue: Salle des Fêtes de Belfort, 11 Place de la République, 90000 Belfort.
Organizers: Fédération Française des Échecs, Belfort Échecs and Ville de Belfort.
Head of Organizing Committee: Christophe Infanti, president of Belfort Échecs.
Tournament Director: Jordi Lopez.
Chief Arbiter: Guillaume Gerandi (FA).
Arbiters: Lucie Argente and Georges Bellet (FA), deputy arbiters.
Other officials: Fabien Libiszewski and Jean-Baptiste Mullon, commentators; Étienne Mensch, technical production.
Eligible: Eight boards including a French man and a French woman; registered squads of up to 16. Local regulations specify May 2025 FIDE ratings throughout, including the June round.
Seeding: May 2025 FIDE ratings throughout; playing order subject to the 100-Elo restriction. TXT roster order is for presentation.
Teams participating: 16 teams: twelve retained from 2024 plus Vandœuvre, Aix-en-Provence, Bois-Colombes and Le Mans. All club names and codes already existed in _teams.txt.
Players participating: 257 (incl. 95 GMs, 50 IMs, 3 WGMs, 39 FMs, 7 WIMs, 3 CMs, 10 WFMs and 1 WCM)
Games played: 704 (2 games were forfeited)
Competition format: Two preliminary groups of eight, seven rounds; top four of each enter Poule Haute, the others Poule Basse. Four new matches against clubs from the other preliminary group. MP and match W/D/L cover all eleven rounds; final-pool GW/GL covers seven matches within that pool.
Final order decided by: MP over all eleven rounds; head-to-head MP, difference and wins; then difference and wins against the tied teams and common opponents.
Match winner: Drawn boards 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://belfort2025.ffechecs.org/
Other websites: FFE :: event and results
FFE :: registered squads
Sources: All 88 FFE match sheets and four standings; official 256-player register; May 2025 FIDE list; four FFE PGNs supplemented by 64 missing last-round games from TWIC 1595; official individual totals, local regulations and award announcement.
Documents: Registered squads; FIDE May 2025; Local regulations; Season regulations; Official board awards; Individual results by team; TWIC 1595 — missing last-round games.
Data notes: All 703 available played-game move sequences preserved. The FFE downloads omit round 11 in both final pools; 64 games supplied by TWIC 1595. Benitah–Gely R5.7: erroneous 0-1 corrected to a draw, supported by FFE sheet and individual totals 2.5/7 and 2/7. Three source games labelled Brunelliere, Pierre belong to Midy, Robin according to FFE sheets. The double forfeit on board 8 Cannes–Lyon R1 was omitted from PGN and is restored as an empty double-loss record: Aurélien Crut against an unnamed Cannes slot. No fictitious player name was assigned. After correcting Benitah–Gely, all 88 match scores agree with FFE; no administrative match-point deltas are needed.
PGN game file: 2025france.pgn
May Elo applies throughout. The Result * in the empty R1.8 record denotes a documented double forfeit (0:0), not an unknown sporting result; both sides are marked -2 in [Forfeits]. NN 8 is a technical empty-board slot, not a 257th registered player. The organizer website retains a generic TOP16 2024 subtitle. Its award table prints 70% for Kamsky at 6.5/9 (72.2%) and 2862 performance for Murzin; source award details are kept separately from computed rankings.


Tournament review

C’Chartres Échecs retained their title with a perfect eleven wins and 33 MP, ahead of Asnières and newly promoted Aix-en-Provence. Clichy won Poule Basse. Lyon, Bois-Colombes, Le Mans and Bischwiller were relegated. Émile Bassini achieved an IM norm and Simon Lamaze a GM norm, playing all nine games with Black.

Best board results

1st Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. GM Murzin, Volodar FID TRMB 7½ 11 68.2 2680
2. GM Ganguly, Surya Shekhar IND METZ 6 10 60.0 2612
3. GM Karthikeyan, Murali IND CANS 6 11 54.5 2620

2nd Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. GM Van Wely, Loek NED CE92 8 10 80.0 2754
2. GM Gürel, Ediz TUR CE92 7½ 10 75.0 2753
3. GM Van Foreest, Jorden NED RRAP 6½ 9 72.2 2775

3rd Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. GM Adhiban, Baskaran IND CANS 8½ 11 77.3 2687
2. GM Fressinet, Laurent FRA CHRT 7½ 10 75.0 2678
3. GM Mamedov, Rauf AZE CHRT 7 10 70.0 2640

4th Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. GM Kamsky, Gata USA CHRT 6½ 9 72.2 2645
2. GM Postny, Evgeny ISR METZ 6 9 66.7 2561
3. IM Travadon, Loic FRA METZ 7 11 63.6 2509

5th Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. GM Lagarde, Maxime FRA CHRT 7½ 10 75.0 2629
2. GM Cornette, Matthieu FRA ASNR 5½ 8 68.8 2513
3. GM Shchekachev, Andrei FRA TRMB 6 9 66.7 2557

6th Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. IM Lamaze, Simon FRA MARS 7½ 9 83.3 2731
2. GM Tregubov, Pavel FRA ASNR 6 8 75.0 2611
3. GM Boyer, Mahel FRA RRAP 8 11 72.7 2591

7th Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. FM Pourquet, Matthieu FRA VNDE 5½ 9 61.1 2450
2. FM Belkaid, Sohan FRA CE92 5 9 55.6 2344
3. IM Govciyan, Pavel FRA RRAP 4½ 9 50.0 2411

8th Board
no. name flag team pts gms % Elop
1. IM Guichard, Pauline FRA ASNR 8 10 80.0 2411
2. IM Daulytė-Cornette, Deimantė FRA CHRT 7½ 10 75.0 2382
3. FM Vallee, Louis FRA VNDE 6½ 9 72.2 2374


Official board awards, announced on 5 June 2025:

  1. Board 1: Murzin, Volodar (TRMB), 7.5/11.
  2. Board 2: Van Wely, Loek (CE92), 8/10.
  3. Board 3: Adhiban, Baskaran (CANS), 8.5/11.
  4. Board 4: Kamsky, Gata (CHRT), 6.5/9.
  5. Board 5: Lagarde, Maxime (CHRT), 7.5/10.
  6. Board 6: Lamaze, Simon (MARS), 7.5/9.
  7. Board 7: Pourquet, Matthieu (VNDE), 5.5/9.
  8. Board 8: Guichard, Pauline (ASNR), 8/10.

The source prints 70% for Kamsky at 6.5/9; the fraction equals 72.2%. It prints Murzin performance 2862, which is inconsistent with the published opponent average 2547 and 7.5/11. Official laureates are preserved; computed standings use the actual games, May Elo, mean board with halves down and at least eight played games.

Official board awards



Playoffs

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