GMLaurent Fressinet

Laurent Fressinet was born in Dax in 1981 and became a grandmaster in 2000. He won the French championship in 2010 and again in 2014. His international results include silver at the 2012 European Individual Championship and victory at the 2014 Sigeman tournament in Malmö. He also shared first place at the 2015 Isle of Man tournament. In faster chess, he was European blitz runner-up in 2006 and 2007 and won French rapid titles in 2009, 2011 and 2022. He defeated Anatoly Karpov 3-1 in the final of the 2015 Cap d’Agde rapid event.

Fressinet worked on Magnus Carlsen’s preparation team for the 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2021 world championship matches. He later joined the French-language chess24 team alongside Iossif Dorfman and Jean-Baptiste Mullon. He married grandmaster Almira Skripchenko in 2007.