Full name Joel Lautier Role Chess Player Country France | Title Grandmaster Name Joel Lautier | |
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Born April 12, 1973 (age 51)
Scarborough, Canada ( 1973-04-12 ) |
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Joël Lautier ([ʒo.ɛl loˈtje]; born 12 April 1973, Scarborough, Canada) is a French chess grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer (2006).
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Lautier won the 1988 World Junior Chess Championship on tiebreak at Adelaide, and the French Chess Championships in 2004 and 2005. He was the No. 2 French GM in 2005 after Étienne Bacrot.

Lautier first received world attention in 1986 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where at the age of 13 he won the Under-14 World Championship ahead of Sofia Polgar and Judit Polgár, who both tied for second.

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Lautier is one of the founders of the Association of Chess Professionals. He served as its president from 2004 to 2005.

As of 2009, Lautier no longer classifies himself as a chess professional, but as a businessman working in Russia. He speaks fluent Russian.
Now divorced, he was previously married to Woman Grandmaster Almira Skripchenko.