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Gharamian and Guichard are the winners at the French Championships 2018

général-2-670x300The French Chess Championship took place from August 18-26, 2018 in Nimes.
891 players took part in all the events!

In the man and women championship it was 10 players round-robins.

By beating Natacha Benmesbah in the last round, Pauline Guichard won her first title of champion of France! Pauline was making her comeback in the Women’s National after 7 years of absence, and she made a great performance by winning no less than 7 games, conceding only one draw and one loss-7.5 points! She is ahead of Sophie Milliet 6.5 and Cécile Haussernot 6 points, respectively 2nd and 3rd.

A chess playoff was required as 3 players tied for 1st: Gharamian, Edouard and Gozzoli all with 6 points out of 9.
Tigran Gharamian wins his first title in France by winning ties against Yannick Gozzoli and Romain Edouard. A victory at the end of the suspense since Tigran Gharamian won the Armageddon blitz against Romain Édouard.

Replay the games here.

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