Thomas Roussel-Roozmon
Canadian chess grandmaster (born 1988)
Thomas Roussel-Roozmon | |
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Country | Canada |
Born | (1988-01-08) January 8, 1988 (age 36) Laval, Quebec, Canada |
Title | Grandmaster (2010)[1] |
FIDE rating | 2457 (August 2024) |
Peak rating | 2500 (November 2010) |
Thomas Roussel-Roozmon is a Canadian chess grandmaster.
Chess career
Roussel-Roozmon began playing chess at the age of 5.[2] He played for Canada at the 37th, 38th, and 39th Chess Olympiads.[3]
In 2010, Roussel-Roozmon became the fourth Canadian-born player to achieve the Grandmaster title, which he obtained at the 2010 Chess Olympiad held in Khanty-Mansiysk.[2][4]
Achievements
Roussel-Roozmon has a number of notable chess achievements:[5]
- 2010 Selected Canada's Olympiad National Team
- 2008 Represented Canada at Olympiad
- 2008 1st place, First Saturday Grand Master March, Budapest, Hungary
- 2007 Grandmaster Norm at Quebec Open
- 2007 2nd place, Quebec Open Championship
- 2006 Represented Canada at Olympiad
- 2004 Awarded International Master title
- 2003 Canadian Grade 10 Champion
- 2002 Canadian Grade 9 Champion
- 2000 Represented Canada at World Under-12 Championship (9th place)
- 2000 Canadian Under-12 Champion
- 2000 Canadian Grade 7 Champion
Personal life
Roussel-Roozmon studied philosophy at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[2]
References
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Canadian grandmasters
Chess players for Canada with the FIDE title of grandmaster (GM) by title decade
- Daniel Yanofsky
- Duncan Suttles
- Peter Biyiasas
- Kevin Spraggett
- Evgeny Bareev
- Dimitri Tyomkin
- Mark Bluvshtein
- Pascal Charbonneau
- Bator Sambuev
- Anton Kovalyov
- Thomas Roussel-Roozmon
- Eric Hansen
- Razvan Preotu
- Aman Hambleton
- Yang Kaiqi
- See also: List of chess grandmasters
- Category:Canadian chess players