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
All pictures by Dominique Primel
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