de Vassal, Thibault   (FRA)       [FICGS member # 1]



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Thibault de Vassal


Last status : WCH starts on nov. 1st, 2018


Hello from France ! .. Birthdate 1973, April 13 (exactly 10 years after Garry Kasparov :)). I play correspondence chess since 2004, first because there is no chess club and no more players around there (Creuse, center of France). Have good games !


Thibault de Vassal has currently 0 running correspondence chess game(s), won 53, lost 40 and drawn 199 other games against an average elo of 2357, played advanced chess at fast time controls, now 0 running, 35 won, 34 lost, 72 drawn, played big chess, now 0 running, 131 won, 30 lost, 16 drawn, played Go (weiqi, baduk), now 0 running, 210 won, 252 lost, and plays poker texas holdem, now 33 running, 306 won, 210 lost, finally Thibault finished a total of 1588 games and is still playing a total of 33 games.



Correspondence chess statistics :

vs. Peter Shwimmer (2379) :   41%   (24 games, 1 wins, 5 losses)
vs. Herbert Kruse (2404) :   38%   (21 games, 0 wins, 5 losses)
vs. Marius Zubac (2287) :   64%   (14 games, 4 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Eros Riccio (2475) :   41%   (12 games, 0 wins, 2 losses)
vs. Wolfgang Utesch (2165) :   37%   (12 games, 0 wins, 3 losses)
vs. Wayne Lowrance (2049) :   29%   (12 games, 1 wins, 6 losses)
vs. Zbigniew Szczepanski (2487) :   59%   (11 games, 2 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Stephane Legrand (2473) :   40%   (10 games, 0 wins, 2 losses)
vs. Steven DuCharme (1362) :   100%   (10 games, 10 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Jeroen Van Assche (2508) :   33%   (9 games, 0 wins, 3 losses)


Advanced chess statistics :

vs. Scott Nichols (2295) :   47%   (38 games, 8 wins, 10 losses)
vs. Alvin Alcala (2489) :   46%   (15 games, 3 wins, 4 losses)
vs. Kamesh Nookala (2418) :   32%   (14 games, 1 wins, 6 losses)
vs. Wayne Lowrance (2368) :   50%   (12 games, 3 wins, 3 losses)
vs. Peter Marriott (2311) :   50%   (6 games, 2 wins, 2 losses)
vs. Sebastian Boehme (2195) :   40%   (5 games, 1 wins, 2 losses)
vs. Stephane Legrand (2207) :   80%   (5 games, 3 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Mauro Petrolo (2428) :   25%   (4 games, 0 wins, 2 losses)
vs. Garvin Gray (2343) :   75%   (4 games, 2 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Jimmy Huggins (2273) :   50%   (3 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)


Big chess statistics :

vs. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2158) :   52%   (23 games, 8 wins, 7 losses)
vs. Stephane Legrand (2258) :   28%   (16 games, 3 wins, 10 losses)
vs. Luis Flores (2109) :   75%   (12 games, 9 wins, 3 losses)
vs. Yeturu Aahlad (2085) :   100%   (10 games, 10 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Paul Brand Lyard (1528) :   100%   (8 games, 8 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Xavier Pichelin (2211) :   12%   (4 games, 0 wins, 3 losses)
vs. Marek Skwarczylo (2112) :   62%   (4 games, 2 wins, 1 losses)
vs. Tom Kuge (2019) :   62%   (4 games, 2 wins, 1 losses)
vs. Herbert Kruse (2220) :   50%   (4 games, 2 wins, 2 losses)
vs. Timofey Denisov (1946) :   75%   (4 games, 3 wins, 1 losses)


Go (weiqi, baduk) statistics :

vs. Daniel Xu (1524) :   8%   (24 games, 2 wins, 22 losses)
vs. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2124) :   25%   (20 games, 5 wins, 15 losses)
vs. Laszlo Kis-Kos (1454) :   35%   (20 games, 7 wins, 13 losses)
vs. Yeturu Aahlad (1776) :   0%   (19 games, 0 wins, 19 losses)
vs. Laurine Segur (1019) :   94%   (17 games, 16 wins, 1 losses)
vs. Sylvain Praz (1664) :   12%   (16 games, 2 wins, 14 losses)
vs. Mickael Simon (1195) :   50%   (14 games, 7 wins, 7 losses)
vs. Don Groves (2289) :   57%   (14 games, 8 wins, 6 losses)
vs. Jing Huang (1120) :   0%   (13 games, 0 wins, 13 losses)
vs. Nick Ioffe (1472) :   69%   (13 games, 9 wins, 4 losses)


Poker holdem :

vs. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2148) :   47%   (59 games, 28 wins, 31 losses)
vs. Nelson Bernal Varela (2379) :   38%   (54 games, 21 wins, 33 losses)
vs. Aleksey Payzansky (2006) :   62%   (29 games, 18 wins, 11 losses)
vs. Yeturu Aahlad (2322) :   30%   (26 games, 8 wins, 18 losses)
vs. Herbert Kruse (2156) :   42%   (26 games, 11 wins, 15 losses)
vs. Stephane Legrand (2263) :   42%   (21 games, 9 wins, 12 losses)
vs. Jason Repa (1866) :   65%   (20 games, 13 wins, 7 losses)
vs. Lubos Fric (1952) :   85%   (20 games, 17 wins, 3 losses)
vs. Scott Nichols (2037) :   42%   (19 games, 8 wins, 11 losses)
vs. Laurine Segur (1969) :   94%   (18 games, 17 wins, 1 losses)


Thibault de Vassal



Thibault's favorite game is : Chess

Style of play : Depends on the day...

Is Thibault addicted : Yes, definitely

Uses engines : Yes

Other games played : Go, poker holdem, Blokus

Favorite chess opening : French defence

Favorite chess player : Gary Kasparov

Languages spoken : English, French

City : Clermont-Ferrand

Club : FICGS

Mission : Connecting player

Interests : Movies, games, music...

Occupation : Webmaster

Favorite website : FICGS :)

Personal website : http://www.ficgs.com/blog/thibault

Favorite quote : Victory belongs to who wants it more!

Favorite movie : 2001, a space odyssey

Favorite music style : Electronic, classical, rock...




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Last messages by Thibault de Vassal in the forum :


New Tie Break System    (2024-12-11 03:09:53)

Hi Garvin,

I can only say: Yes, this tie break system is good (probably better even if it remains subjective) & interesting (...)


stage 2 WCH 000028    (2024-11-16 03:42:12)

Hello! It will start soon... There is no hold up, "leaders" or "winners" are players who got the most points, but it does not mea (...)


Conditional Moves Method    (2024-10-24 00:03:34)

Hello Bahadir,

No, sorry, at least not before years... As I explained in previous forum posts, it won't be feasible without mak (...)


Chess Cup-1st Stage    (2024-10-06 00:09:38)

Sometimes some players want to play the until the very end in quite obvious positions... not exactly a dead man defense (it could last much longer and (...)


Russian flag replaced    (2024-08-31 13:38:04)

@Vjacheslav: sure, done.

@A.T.S.: I agree that other countries flags could be suspended sometime... we'll see. (...)


poker reflection time    (2024-07-14 03:15:45)

We must consider all points here: If games are shorter, ratings will be less accurate. I understand the point, but there is no easy solution. (...)


Poker Rating    (2024-07-06 15:53:42)

You were unlucky in this one, but you played better. Just a statistical happening. (...)


Extreme case in a Go game    (2024-05-31 19:21:52)

I couldn't imagine such a case, but it happened:

Two players reached this position, now alternately pass... and one player just (...)


Conditional    (2024-05-25 01:24:12)

Hello Peter. It isn't cause we don't...

That is a quite recurrent discussion, you'll find other threads dealing with it on the (...)


Next thematic tournament    (2024-03-27 02:33:38)

Let's wait for the current waiting list to finish, then we'll try Fried Liver attack (e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Nxd5), and then we'll try Phil (...)