French chess grandmaster (born 1983)
Etienne Bacrot
(
French pronunciation:
[etj?n
bak?o]
; born 22 January 1983) is a French
chess
grandmaster
, and as a child, a
chess prodigy
.
He competed at the
Candidates Matches
in 2007 and won the
Aeroflot Open
in 2009. He passed 2700
FIDE
rating
in 2004 and in January 2005 he became the first French player to enter the top 10.
Bacrot won an individual bronze medal at the
37th Chess Olympiad
in 2006 for his performance on board one,
[1]
as well as four medals at the World Team Championships.
Chess career
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He started playing at age 4. By 10, Bacrot was winning junior competitions, and in 1996, at 13 years of age, he won against
Vasily Smyslov
. He became a
Grandmaster
in March 1997 at the age of 14 years and 2 months, making him the youngest person at the time to have held the title until
Ruslan Ponomariov
took the record that December. He was coached previously by
Josif Dorfman
.
Bacrot served as one of the four advisors to the world team in the 1999
Kasparov versus the World
event.
He has a son, Alexandre, and a daughter, Victoria, with Nathalie Bonnafous.
In 2023 Bacrot took part in the
Chess World Cup
in Baku as the 52nd seed, making it to the fourth round after defeating Nay Lin Tun,
Aleksandar Indjic
and the 13th seed
Yu Yangyi
from China, before losing to Indian GM
Vidit Gujrathi
.
He, then, participated in the
FIDE Grand Swiss 2023
, where he scored 6,5/11 and was in contention for a top 2 finish until round 8 when he lost against
Fabiano Caruana
after blundering in time pressure. In this strong tournament he beat Belgian GM
Daniel Dardha
, German GM
Niclas Huschenbeth
and 2720-rated GM
Yu Yangyi
, with a TPR of 2749.
After the Grand Swiss, Bacrot played on board 1 for France in the
European Team Chess Championship
scoring 4/8 as France finished in seventh place.
Annual hometown game
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Bacrot has played several matches against prominent players in his home town of
Albert
. In 1996 he beat
Vasily Smyslov
5?1, in 1997 lost to
Viktor Korchnoi
4?2, in 1998 defeated
Robert Hubner
3½?2½, in 1999 lost to
Alexander Beliavsky
3½?2½, in 2000 lost to
Nigel Short
4?2, in 2001 tied 3?3 with
Emil Sutovsky
, in 2002 beat
Boris Gelfand
3½?2½, and in 2004 (there was no match in 2003) won against
Ivan Sokolov
3½?2½.
Notable results
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Bacrot, Italian Team Championship,
Civitanova Marche
, 29 April/3 May 2015
Team results
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- European team chess championship playing with France: 2nd in 2001, 3rd in 2005 and 2nd in 2021.
- Many times French team champion and European club champion with Nao chess club.
Youth results
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Bacrot (1999)
- World champion in under-10 years old category.
- World champion in under-12 years old category.
- Beat
Levon Aronian
in a match in
Albert
.
- IM at 12 years old.
- GM at 14 years old setting a new record at that time.
Rankings
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- Ranked No. 9 in the world in every 2005 FIDE list, playing 55 games.
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