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Almira Skripchenko
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| Naissance | 17 février 1976 Chisinau, RSS de Moldavie |
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| Nationalité |  française moldave |
| Pays de résidence | France |
| Profession : | Joueuse d’échecs |
| Autres activités : | Joueuse de poker |
| Ascendants : | Feodor Skripchenko |
| Conjoint : | Laurent Fressinet |
Almira Skripchenko, née en Moldavie le 17 février 1976, est un grand maître international féminin, maître international mixte du jeu d’échecs, ainsi qu’une joueuse de poker française d’origine moldave.
Elle est la fille de Feodor Skripchenko (1935-2010), arbitre international, secrétaire général de la fédération moldave des échecs et introducteur de la variante Chebanenko de la défense slave en compétition.
Elle est mariée avec Laurent Fressinet, champion de France et grand maître international d’échecs.
Echecs
En 1990, elle devient championne d’URSS des moins de 14 ans. En 1992, elle gagne le championnat du monde des moins de 16 ans sous les couleurs de la Moldavie. En 2001, elle gagne le championnat d’Europe féminin.
Elle remporte le championnat de France féminin en 2004, 2005, 2006 et 2010.
Au 1er janvier 2011, elle est classée deuxième joueuse française, et 44e joueur français (ex-æquo avec Anthony Bellaïche), avec un classement Elo de 2 458 points.
Autres activités
Elle se consacre désormais autant au poker qu’aux échecs, en jouant des grands tournois internationaux. Elle a intégré une équipe professionnelle, ce qui permet de ne pas trop risquer son propre argent.
En juin 2009, elle termine 7e d’un tournoi des WSOP et gagne 78 664 $. En janvier 2010, elle termine 3e de la 5e édition du France Poker Tour empochant un gain de 59 100 euros. En 2010, elle est nommée meilleure joueuse de l’année 2009 lors des France Poker Awards.
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Almira Skripchenko
| Almira Skripchenko | |
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| Full name | Almira Skripchenko |
| Country |  France Moldova |
| Born | February 17, 1976 (age 35) Chisinau, Moldova |
| Title | International Master Woman Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2464 (May 2009) |
| Peak rating | 2498 (January 2002) |
Almira Skripchenko (born 17 February 1976, in Chisinau, Moldova) is a French chess player who has achieved the FIDE International Master and Woman Grandmaster titles. She won the second European Open Women’s Chess Championship in 2001.
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Chess
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The daughter of a Russian father and an Armenian mother, both pedagogues and chess coaches, Skripchenko started playing chess when she was 6 years old.
In 1991, Moldova became independent from the Soviet Union. This meant that Skripchenko could take part for the first time in the World Youth Chess Championships. She was soon crowned champion at Under-16 level (1992, Duisburg, Germany) and in 1993, took the bronze at Under-18.
She married French Grandmaster Joël Lautier in 1997 and consequently moved to live in France. Despite separating from Lautier in 2003, she became a French citizen in 2001 and continued to make France her home. Skripchenko then married French Grandmaster Laurent Fressinet and in January 2007, gave birth to a daughter.
In 2001, at 25 years old, she celebrated her biggest success ever, winning the individual ladies European championship. She was at this time chosen « best sportsperson in 2001 in Moldova » and decorated with the Order of National Merit in her native country.
In 2004 she won the North Urals Cup, the second international super-tournament for female chess players. Held in Krasnoturinsk, the nine-round single round-robin tournament featured ten of the strongest female players in the world. Skripchenko finished a half point ahead of Maia Chiburdanidze, the former Women’s World Champion, and also defeated her in their individual encounter.
Living in Paris and representing France in tournaments since 2002, Skripchenko has become a noted ambassador for the game in Europe. She was the first woman to have competed in the Men’s French Individual Championship (2002, 2003). In 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2010 she also won the Ladies’ French Chess Championship. In team play, she won the French Nationale Chess League with celebrated club side NAO Chess Club (2003, 2004) and the German Chess Bundesliga with Werder Bremen (2005). Her career victories also include three Nationale ladies titles which she earned with Baden-Oos in 2003, 2004, and 2005 and three European Club Cup victories with Cercle d’échecs de Monaco in 2007, 2008 and 2010.
Almira Skripchenko has taken part in several Chess Olympiads (with Moldova, then with France), each time playing on her team’s top board. She is also a member of the ACP Board ( Association of Chess Professionals).
Poker
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Skripchenko has also played in major poker tournaments. In 2009, she finished seventh in a World Series of Poker No Limit Texas hold ’em tournament, winning $78,664. [1] In 2011, she won $50,000 when she finished second in the World Poker Tour celebrity invitational tournament. [2] As of 2011, her live poker tournament winnings exceed $250,000.
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