8/26/2011 – After ten rounds there were two players vying for the title: reigning champion Laurent Fressinet and the top seed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, both with 6.5/10 points on the score table. Fressinet lost a kamikaze Pirc against Christian Bauer, while Vachier-Lagrave survived a lost position against Etienne Bacrot, who would have won the Championship if he hadn't blundered on move 26.
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French Chess Championships 2011
The French Chess Championship is taking place from the 14th to the 27th of
August 2011. The venue is the University of Caen, a town located two hours north-west
of Paris, just 15 km inland from the English Channel. The rate of play is 40
moves in 90 minutes, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a
30 seconds increment after every move, starting from move one. There is a delay
in the Internet broadcast, which is intended to prevent organised cheating.
One round before the end the reigning champion Laurent Fressinet and the top
seed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave were in the joint lead, with 6.5/10 points. This
is what happened in the final round.
Key games reach their climax: Bacrot vs Vachier-Lagrave, Bauer vs Fressinet
[Event "86th ch-FRA"]
[Site "Caen FRA"]
[Date "2011.08.25"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Bacrot, E."]
[Black "Vachier Lagrave, M."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "2710"]
[BlackElo "2722"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2011.08.14"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bd2 Bg7 6. e4 Nb6 7. Be3 O-O 8.
Bb5 Be6 9. Nf3 N8d7 10. Be2 c5 11. dxc5 Nc4 12. Bxc4 Bxc4 13. Bd4 e5 14. Be3
Rc8 15. b3 Be6 16. b4 f5 17. Bg5 Qe8 18. Nb5 fxe4 19. Nd6 {Black is already in
big trouble.} exf3 20. g3 e4 21. Nxe8 Rcxe8 22. O-O Bxa1 23. Qxa1 Bc4 24. Rc1
Bd3 25. Qd4 Ne5 {Count the material: White has a queen for rook and knight,
and a position a 2700+ GM should not have problems winning.} 26. b5 $2 Bxb5 27.
Qxe4 Nd3 {Oops, now the game is a draw.} 28. Qd5+ Rf7 29. Rb1 Nxf2 30. Rxb5 (
30. Kxf2 $4 Re2+ {and mate to follow.}) 30... Ng4 31. Rb1 Re2 32. Qd8+ Rf8 33.
Qd5+ Rf7 34. Qd8+ Rf8 35. Qd5+ {A lucky escape for Vachier-Lagrave.} 1/2-1/2
Report by GM Robert Fontaine on round eleven, with the highlights of the
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Final standing
The women's section was dominated by Sophie Milliet, who became the new French
Champion a round before the end (this a double round robin with six players
lasts a day longer than the men's).
Women's section (with one round to play)
Video reports Europe Echecs (in French)
Round ten – all of this is in French, the language they unfortunately
speak in Caen and in the whole of France
Round nine: us too, don't understand a blooming word – but the chess
hightlights are great
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the
chess server Playchess.com.
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