Joël Lautier
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| Full name | Joël Lautier |
| Country | France |
| Born | April 12, 1973 Scarborough, Canada |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2658 (January 2012) (No. 69 on the April 2009 FIDE ratings list) |
| Peak rating | 2687 (January 2002) |
Joël Lautier (French pronunciation: [ʒo.ɛl loˈtje]; born 12 April 1973) is a French chess grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer (2006).
Born in Canada, of French father and Japanese mother, Lautier is one of the strongest grandmasters from France. He won the 1988 World Junior Chess Championship on tiebreak at Adelaide, and the French Chess Championships in 2004 and 2005.[1] He was the No. 2 French GM in 2005 after Étienne Bacrot.
Lautier first received world attention in 1986 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when at age 13, he defeated both Sofia Polgar and Judit Polgár to win the Under-14 World Championship. (Sofia and Judit tied for second.)
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[edit] Slayer of world champions
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Lautier is one of only three players (the others being Vassily Ivanchuk and Peter Svidler) to have beaten every World Champion dating back to 1975 (Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Khalifman, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, and Veselin Topalov).
He twice defeated Garry Kasparov with the black pieces, for example, in Linares 1994:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. Bb3 h6 7. h3 a6 8. Nbd2 Be6 9. Bc2 Ba7 10. Qe2 Qe7 11. b4 d5 12. a4 b5 13. O-O O-O 14. axb5 axb5 15. d4 exd4 16. e5 dxc3 17. exf6 Qxf6 18. Nb3 Nxb4 19. Bb1 d4 20. Rxa7 c2 21. Rxa8 cxb1=Q 22. Rxf8+ Kxf8 23. Qxb5 Qxb3 24. Qb8+ Ke7 25. Qxc7+ Ke8 26. Bd2 Qd8 0–1
[edit] Other life
Lautier is one of the founders of the ACP (Association of Chess Professionals; www.chess-players.org). He served as president from 2004-05.
As of 2009, Lautier was no longer classifying himself as a chess professional, but working a business in Russia. He speaks fluent Russian.
Lautier was married to Woman Grandmaster Almira Skripchenko, but is currently divorced.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Championnats de France (French)
[edit] External links
- Joël Lautier player profile at ChessGames.com
- Interview With GM Joel Lautier
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