Marie Rachel Sebag (born 15 October 1986) is a French

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grandmaster. She is a two-time French Women's Chess Champion.

Tournament results

In 1998 Sebag won the

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(girls under-12), a feat she repeated the next year (girls U14) and in 2002 (girls U16). In 2004, she shared first place in the

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in the category girls U18 with

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, who defeated her in the tie-break. In 2006, she reached the quarter-finals during the

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, in which she lost to Svetlana Matveeva.

Titles

Sebag was already an IM and a WGM when she scored her second GM

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during the Hogeschool Zeeland tournament in

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in August 2007, where she won a game against former

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. By securing a third norm during the

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, she qualified for the title of Grandmaster in May 2008.

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