Cécile Haussernot (born 22 October 1998) is a French

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player holding the title of

Woman International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(WIM). She was twice European champion in her age girls category.

Career

Haussernot learned how to move the pieces at the age of five, and was invited to play on her club's team at the age of six and then learned the basics. She is a six-time French youth champion: U-8 Girls 2006, U-10 Girls 2007, U-14 Girls 2008, U-14 Girls 2011, U-16 Girls 2013 and U-20 2018. She became also French vice-champion in the U-16 Girls category in 2009 and finished 3rd in the U-12 Boys category at the 2010 French youth championships. Haussernot won two gold medals at the

European Youth Chess Championship The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007. Until 2002 there was al ...

s, in the U-10 Girls section in 2007 at

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, Croatia and in the U-12 Girls section in 2009 at

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, Italy. She took the bronze medal in the U-12 Girls category at

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, Georgia in 2010. In the

World Youth Chess Championship The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015, the event has been split into "World Cade ...

s, she finished fourth in the U-10 Girls section in 2008 in

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, Vietnam. In August 2017, Haussernot finished second in the French women's championship. The next month, she played for the silver medal-winning French team in the Women's Mitropa Cup in

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, Hungary. In October, Haussernot finished fourth in the European ACP Women's

Blitz Chess Fast chess, also known as Speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blit ...

Championship in

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, behind

Alexandra Kosteniuk Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (russian: Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian chess grandmaster who is the former Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021, and the for ...

Kateryna Lagno Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Lagno (russian: Екатерина Александровна Лагно, ; born 27 December 1989) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, she earned the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at the ...

and

Valentina Gunina Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina (russian: Валентина Евгеньевна Гунина; born February 4, 1989, in Murmansk) is a Russian chess grandmaster. She has won thrice the Women's European Individual Chess Championship (2012, 2014, ...

respectively. She finished second in the French Woman's Rapid Championships in 2018 in Angoulême. The same year, she earned a Woman Grandmaster norm in Salento, Italy, in May 2018. She then represented France in the Olympiads in Batumi, in October 2018. In December 2020, she became French Woman Rapid Champion.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haussernot, Cecile 1998 births Living people Chess Woman International Masters French female chess players Place of birth missing (living people)