IMSophie Milliet

Sophie Milliet was born in Marseille in 1983 and grew up in Castelnau-le-Lez. She learned chess at four. In 2000 she played top board for the French girls' team that won the Faber Cup in Dublin. Her first French Women's Championship came in 2003, when she finished one and a half points ahead of the field. She became a woman grandmaster in 2004. She earned international master norms in French club competition, at Lenzerheide in Switzerland and at Béthune. FIDE awarded her the IM title in 2009. She won the Mediterranean women's championship in 2015. Further French titles in 2016 and 2017 brought her total to six; in 2017 she finished two and a half points clear. She won her seventh national title in 2026. Her team career included French Olympiad and European Championship appearances and league chess in France, Germany and Britain.