Sébastien Mazé (born 8 February 1984) is a French

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player and trainer. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which

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awarded him in 2007.

Chess career

Born in Paris, he learned to play chess from his mother at the age of 8. He achieved the titles of

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in 2003 and Grandmaster in 2007. Mazé finished second to Russian grandmaster Evgeny Alekseev in the Master open tournament of the

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in 2008, and followed it up with fourth place at the

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(won by

Étienne Bacrot Étienne Bacrot (; born 22 January 1983) is a French chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster, and as a child, a chess prodigy. He competed at the World Chess Championship 2007, Candidates Matches in 2007 and won the Aeroflot Open in 2009. He pas ...

). This qualified him from the French national team at the

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in Dresden that year, where he scored 3½/6. In 2010, he finished in a tie for first place in the Master open at Biel with Alexander Riazantsev,

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, Sébastien Feller and

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, finishing seventh on tiebreak. Mazé shared first place with Étienne Bacrot in the

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FIDE Open in 2016. The next year, he tied for first again in the same tournament, this time with

Gabriel Sargissian Gabriel Eduardi Sargissian (, ''Gabriel Eduardi Sargsyan''; born 3 September 1983) is an Armenian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Armenian team at the Chess Olympiads in 2006, 2008 and 2012 and at the World Team Che ...

and

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Trainer

In 2009 and 2010, he acted as

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to Étienne Bacrot in the tournaments at

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and

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. Since 2011 he has been a contributor to the book series ''Chess Evolution''. He was appointed captain of the French national team in 2013, leading them to a silver medal at the

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, held in that year.

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