Chess in France – Top 16 in Guingamp

6/8/2010 – The last four rounds of the French Top 16 League took place on 3-6 June 2010. The teams have eight players each and at least one token French female player, over twelve rounds. In the last round, Chalons en Champagne (Anish Giri, Loek van Wely, etc.) took first place ahead of Evry Grand Roque (Svidler, Gashimov, Eljanov, Vachier-Lagrave). Results, games and pictures.

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Top 16 in Guingamp

Report by Dominique Primel

In the final set on 3-6 June 2010, in the stadium of the French soccer club En Anant de Guingamp in Britanny, there was great suspense in the last round, with a match between the teams' leaders Evry and Chalons En Champagne. In an amazing way, Evry with four players rated above 2700 could not beat Chalons, and now Chalons En Champagne is the new champion. It was the last formula with 16 teams – next year the French league will be the "top 12" in 11 rounds

Poule haute
Pl.	Team	Pts	j.	d.	p.	c.
1	Chalons en Champagne	32	11	41	47	6
2	Evry Grand Roque	32	11	32	42	10
3	Marseille Echecs	27	11	32	43	11
4	Metz Fischer	26	11	3	29	26
5	Clichy	26	11	23	38	15
6	Mulhouse Philidor	24	11	10	33	23
7	Vandoeuvre	22	11	0	28	28
8	Noyon	19	11	-13	19	32

Poule basse
Pl.	Team	Pts	j.	d.	p.	c.
9	Cannes	25	11	16	35	19
10	Strasbourg	22	11	-3	28	31
11	Guingamp	20	11	-7	24	31
12	Drancy	19	11	-13	18	31
13	Lyon Olympique Echecs	19	11	-14	23	37
14	Deauville	15	11	-19	20	39
15	Montpellier	13	11	-33	15	48
16	Bischwiller		10	-50		50

Picture Gallery from Guingamp

The bulwarks of Guingamp

Le monastère des Augustines

Jean-Claude Moingt, the President of the French Chess Federation, speaking

The playing hall

Peter Svidler of Russia, playing for Evry

Vugar Gashimov, Azerbaijan, also playing for Evry

Etienne Bacrot, Marseille

Christian Bauer, Vandoeuvre

Jean-Marc Degraeve, Marseille

Aleksandar Delchev, Marseille

Sébastien Feller, Evry

Laurent Fressinet, Clichy

Almira Skripchenko, Clichy

Kamil Miton, Marseille

Ilya Smirin, Chalons

Pavel Tregubov, Clichy

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Evry

One GM norm made by Clovis Vernay, Lyon

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