The French Top 16 is a team championship taking place in Chartres, France from June 1-11. It begins with 2 pools of 8 teams where after 7 rounds the Top 4 and Bottom 4 advance to higher and lower brackets, with the French Champions decided in the higher bracket. Matches are played on 8 boards. The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1.
Chessdom.com will follow daily the live games .
Parallel : French Team Championship Top 16, Pool B / 2nd Maharashtra Open / Norway Chess / 23rd Dubai Open A / 23rd Dubai Open B / Limburg Open 2023 / 2. Laimer Pfingst-Open A
More : U18 German Championship / U16 German Championship / U14 German Championship / U12 German Championship / U10 German Championship / Girls U18 German Championship / Girls U16 German Championship / Girls U14 German Championship / Girls U12 German Championship / Girls U10 German Championship
Starting team ranking :
| 1. Bischwiller (RtgAvg:2594, TB1: 4 / TB2: 0) | |||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | RtgAvg | |
| 1 | GM | Bacrot, Etienne | 2672 | FRA | 2655 |
| 2 | GM | Ragger, Markus | 2631 | AUT | 2567 |
| 3 | GM | Naiditsch, Arkadij | 2669 | AZE | 2659 |
| 4 | GM | Fressinet, Laurent | 2632 | FRA | 2597 |
| 5 | GM | Rodshtein, Maxim | 2604 | ISR | 2593 |
| 6 | GM | Le Roux, Jean-Pierre | 2509 | FRA | 2548 |
| 7 | GM | Maze, Sebastien | 2539 | FRA | 2521 |
| 8 | GM | Sebag, Marie | 2421 | FRA | 2354 |
| 9 | GM | Bellahcene, Bilel | 2497 | ALG | 0 |
| 10 | WGM | Maisuradze, Nino | 2276 | FRA | 0 |
| 2. Tremblay en France (RtgAvg:2387, TB1: 4 / TB2: 0) | |||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | RtgAvg | |
| 1 | GM | Van Foreest, Lucas | 2547 | NED | 2579 |
| 2 | GM | Shchekachev, Andrei | 2508 | FRA | 2508 |
| 3 | IM | Vlachos, Anatole | 2448 | GRE | 2424 |
| 4 | GM | Abergel, Thal | 2373 | FRA | 2493 |
| 5 | GM | Flom, Gabriel | 2442 | FRA | 2375 |
| 6 | IM | Shirazi, Kamran | 2278 | FRA | 0 |
| 7 | FM | Kuhn, Clement | 2313 | FRA | 2347 |
| 8 | Hernandez, Lara | 1947 | FRA | 2185 | |
| 9 | FM | Mekhane, Adam | 2188 | FRA | 2341 |
| 3. Lyon Olympique Echecs (RtgAvg:2437, TB1: 4 / TB2: 0) | |||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | RtgAvg | |
| 1 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel | 2598 | ARM | 2587 |
| 2 | GM | Grigoryan, Karen H. | 2626 | ARM | 2556 |
| 3 | GM | Pichot, Alan | 2638 | ARG | 2590 |
| 4 | GM | Vernay, Clovis | 2491 | SUI | 2476 |
| 5 | IM | Tahay, Alexis | 2421 | FRA | 2322 |
| 6 | IM | Benitah, Yohan | 2361 | FRA | 2277 |
| 7 | IM | Crut, Aurelien | 2343 | FRA | 2259 |
| 8 | Rollot, Florence | 2018 | FRA | 2131 | |
| 4. Echiquier Chalonnais (RtgAvg:2571, TB1: 3 / TB2: 0) | |||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | RtgAvg | |
| 1 | GM | Korobov, Anton | 2661 | UKR | 2659 |
| 2 | GM | Grandelius, Nils | 2674 | SWE | 2562 |
| 3 | GM | Velten, Paul | 2493 | FRA | 2570 |
| 4 | GM | Fedorchuk, Sergey A. | 2579 | UKR | 2548 |
| 5 | GM | David, Alberto | 2540 | ITA | 2390 |
| 6 | GM | Dorfman, Iossif | 2541 | FRA | 2403 |
| 7 | IM | Bournel, Antoine | 2354 | FRA | 2076 |
| 8 | IM | Alexieva, Silvia | 2213 | FRA | 2263 |
| 9 | GM | Topalov, Veselin | 2728 | BUL | 2655 |
| 5. C’Chartres Echecs (RtgAvg:2571, TB1: 1 / TB2: 0) | |||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | RtgAvg | |
| 1 | GM | Ivanchuk, Vasyl | 2655 | UKR | 2700 |
| 2 | GM | Mamedov, Rauf | 2642 | AZE | 2646 |
| 3 | GM | Kamsky, Gata | 2659 | USA | 2624 |
| 4 | GM | Lagarde, Maxime | 2597 | FRA | 2653 |
| 5 | GM | Bauer, Christian | 2593 | FRA | 2573 |
| 6 | GM | Maurizzi, Marc`andria | 2548 | FRA | 2525 |
| 7 | GM | Guliyev, Namig | 2521 | AZE | 2516 |
| 8 | IM | Daulyte-Cornette, Deimante | 2354 | FRA | 2317 |
| 6. Vandoeuvre Echecs (RtgAvg:2417, TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) | |||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | RtgAvg | |
| 1 | GM | Donchenko, Alexander | 2667 | GER | 2573 |
| 2 | GM | Hamitevici, Vladimir | 2493 | MDA | 2500 |
| 3 | GM | Solodovnichenko, Yuri | 2503 | UKR | 2573 |
| 4 | IM | Brunner, Nicolas | 2424 | FRA | 2470 |
| 5 | FM | Decuigniere, Tom | 2375 | FRA | 2432 |
| 6 | IM | Savina, Anastasia | 2341 | FRA | 2275 |
| 7 | IM | Philippe, Christophe | 2347 | FRA | 2328 |
| 8 | WIM | Steil-Antoni, Fiona | 2185 | LUX | 1983 |
| 7. Cappelle la Grande (RtgAvg:2435, TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) | |||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | RtgAvg | |
| 1 | GM | Fedoseev, Vladimir | 2676 | FID | 2650 |
| 2 | GM | Edouard, Romain | 2527 | FRA | 2583 |
| 3 | GM | Dardha, Daniel | 2619 | BEL | 2560 |
| 4 | GM | Enchev, Ivajlo | 2437 | BUL | 2579 |
| 6 | Jossien, Remy | 2231 | FRA | 2540 | |
| 7 | Maugenest, Ghislain | 2212 | FRA | 2451 | |
| 8 | Lam, Sophie | 2076 | FRA | 2186 | |
| 9 | Feryn, Benjamin | 2171 | FRA | 2278 | |
| 10 | GM | Nikolov, Momchil | 2506 | BUL | 2598 |
| 11 | FM | Jossien, Arnaud | 2268 | FRA | 2421 |
| 8. C.E.Strasbourg (RtgAvg:2115, TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) | |||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | RtgAvg | |
| 1 | GM | Sanikidze, Tornike | 2491 | GEO | 2589 |
| 2 | GM | Prusikin, Michael | 2513 | GER | 2508 |
| 3 | GM | Rozentalis, Eduardas | 2528 | LTU | 0 |
| 4 | IM | Sharif, Mehrshad | 2330 | FRA | 0 |
| 6 | IM | Roos, Jean-Luc | 2184 | FRA | 0 |
| 7 | Olguin, Monica | 1619 | FRA | 0 | |
| 8 | IM | Roos, Louis | 2254 | FRA | 0 |
