# Marie Sebag

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{{short description|French chess grandmaster (born 1986)}}
{{Infobox chess player
|image = MarieSebag19.jpg
|name = Marie Sebag
|caption = Marie Sebag in 2019
|birthname = Marie Rachel Sebag
|country = [France](/source/France)
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|10|15|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [Paris](/source/Paris), France<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uschesschamps.com/bio/marie-sebag|title=Marie Sebag &#124; www.uschesschamps.com|website=uschesschamps.com}}</ref>
|death_date = 
|death_place = 
|title = [Grandmaster](/source/Grandmaster_(chess)) (2008)
|worldchampion = 
|womensworldchampion = 
|rating = 
|peakrating = 2537 (March 2013)
|ranking = 
|FideID = 617822
}}

'''Marie Rachel Sebag''' (born 15 October 1986) is a French [chess](/source/chess) [grandmaster](/source/international_grandmaster). She is a two-time [French Women's Chess Champion](/source/French_Chess_Championship).

==Tournament results==
In 1998 Sebag won the [European Youth Chess Championship](/source/European_Youth_Chess_Championship) (girls under-12), a feat she repeated the next year (girls U14) and in 2002 (girls U16). In 2004, she shared first place in the [World Youth Chess Championship](/source/World_Youth_Chess_Championship) in the category girls U18 with [Jolanta Zawadzka](/source/Jolanta_Zawadzka), who defeated her in the tie-break. In 2006, she reached the quarter-finals during the [Women's World Chess Championship](/source/Women's_World_Chess_Championship), in which she lost to [Svetlana Matveeva](/source/Svetlana_Matveeva).

==Titles==
Sebag was already an [IM](/source/International_Master) and a [WGM](/source/Woman_Grandmaster) when she scored her second [GM](/source/Grandmaster_(chess)) [norm](/source/Grandmaster_norm) during the Hogeschool Zeeland tournament in [Vlissingen](/source/Vlissingen) in August 2007,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessvibes.com/tournaments/lang_nleindverslag-hz-toernooilang_nllang_enend-report-hz-tournamentlang_en/ |title=End report HZ Tournament |accessdate=2008-04-11 |date=2007-08-13 |publisher=www.chessvibes.com}}</ref> where she won a game against former [FIDE](/source/FIDE) [World Champion](/source/World_Chess_Championship) [Rustam Kasimdzhanov](/source/Rustam_Kasimdzhanov).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1468594 |title=Marie Sebag vs Rustam Kasimdzhanov |accessdate=2008-04-11 |date=2007-08-06 |publisher=[ChessGames.com](/source/ChessGames.com)}}</ref> By securing a third norm during the [European Individual Chess Championship](/source/European_Individual_Chess_Championship), she qualified for the title of Grandmaster in May 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europe-echecs.com/articles/actualites-ix-championnat-d-europe-individuel-ee1487.html |title=IX Championnat d'Europe Individuel |accessdate=2008-05-02 |date=2008-05-02 |publisher=Europe échecs |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421225058/http://www.europe-echecs.com/articles/actualites-ix-championnat-d-europe-individuel-ee1487.html |archivedate=2008-04-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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Category:1986 births
Category:Female chess grandmasters
Category:Living people
Category:Chess Woman Grandmasters
Category:French female chess players
Category:Chess players from Paris
Category:21st-century French sportswomen
Category:Secret Story (French TV series)
Category:Big Brother (France) participants

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