Paul Velten

French chess grandmaster (born 1993)
Paul Velten
Velten in 2020
CountryFrance
Born (1993-08-10) August 10, 1993 (age 31)
Hanoi, Vietnam
TitleGrandmaster (2018)[1]
FIDE rating2495 (September 2024)
Peak rating2527 (August 2019)

Paul Velten is a French chess grandmaster.

Chess career

In June 2015, he scored his first GM norm at the French Team Championships, where he notably played with the black pieces in each game.[2] His next norms were at the Top 12 French Team Championships in June 2016 and the Bundesliga Sued in February 2018.[1]

In August 2018, Velten, Antoine Favarel, and their student Antoine Bournel competed in the Wine Open in Hourtin, near Bordeaux. They helped Bournel achieve the win in the tournament.[3]

In June 2020, he tied for 5th place at the online Lichess Quarantine Charity Tournament.[4]

In February 2023, he represented the Chalonnais Exchequer chess club at the Cappelle la Grande Open tournament, where he finished 9th out of a field of 30.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "FIDE Title Application (GM)" (PDF).
  2. ^ Doggers, Peter (June 10, 2015). "Bischwiller Convincing Winner Of French Team Championship".
  3. ^ Zickelbein, Evi (August 5, 2018). "Light-weight wins Wine Open".
  4. ^ Luarca, Roy (June 16, 2020). "Paragua strikes back, tops Lichess Quarantine Charity chess tourney".
  5. ^ Ahmed, Shahid (February 25, 2023). "Sethuraman wins 39th Cappelle la Grande Open 2023 on his 30th birthday, Harsha Bharathakoti second".
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French Grandmasters
Chess players for France with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)
1950s
  • Ossip Bernstein
  • Nicolas Rossolimo
  • Savielly Tartakower
1960s
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1970s
  • Josif Dorfman
1980s
  • Boris Spassky
  • Anatoly Vaisser
  • Bachar Kouatly
1990s2000s2010s
2020s