The championship is taking place right now in Nimes. It will conclude on August 22, 2009.
Standings after 1 round:
| 1. | Feller, Sebastien | g | FRA | 2576 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 2. | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2703 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 3. | Cornette, Matthieu | g | FRA | 2578 | ½ | |||||||||||||
| 4. | Cossin, Sebastien | m | FRA | 2486 | ½ | |||||||||||||
| 5. | Fressinet, Laurent | g | FRA | 2667 | ½ | |||||||||||||
| 6. | Hamdouchi, Hicham | g | FRA | 2589 | ½ | |||||||||||||
| 7. | Maze, Sebastien | g | FRA | 2546 | ½ | |||||||||||||
| 8. | Sokolov, Andrei1 | g | FRA | 2570 | ½ | |||||||||||||
| 9. | Tkachiev, Vladislav | g | FRA | 2650 | ½ | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Degraeve, Jean-Marc | g | FRA | 2559 | ½ | |||||||||||||
| 11. | Edouard, Romain | g | FRA | 2597 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 12. | Le Roux, Jean-Pierre | m | FRA | 2485 | 0 |
Official website: http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Default.aspx?Cat=15
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Where’s Bacrot and Vachier Lagrave?
Vachier Lagrave is playing here and Bacrot in Jermuk (FIDE Grand Prix).
Bacrot is playing the FIDE Grand Prix at Jermuk.
Vachier-Lagrave is playing and he has already won his two first games. Without Bacrot, there won’t be probably any suspense (last year was great, Bacrot beat Vachier-Lagrave in play-off).
Bacrot is playing here : http://jermuk2009.fide.com/
and vachier-lagrave is playing this 2009 French Championship and has already won his 2 first games.