Marc Santo-Roman

French chess grandmaster (born 1960)

Marc Santo-Roman
Country	France
Born	(1960-09-13) 13 September 1960 (age 63) Toulouse, France
Title	Grandmaster (1996)
FIDE rating	2369 (May 2019)
Peak rating	2500 (January 1991)

Marc Santo-Roman (born 13 September 1960) is a French chess grandmaster, born in Toulouse.^[1]

Chess career

He won three French Chess Championship at Angers 1990, Montpellier 1991, and Chambéry 1994^[2] and played for France in the 29th Chess Olympiad at Novi Sad 1990, 30th Chess Olympiad at Manila 1992 and in the 31st Chess Olympiad at Moscow 1994.^[3] Santo-Roman was awarded the International Master title in 1984^[1] and the Grandmaster title in 1996.

Chess strength

According to Chessmetrics, at his peak in October 1991 Santo-Roman's play was equivalent to a rating of 2557, and he was ranked number 317 in the world. His best single performance was at FRA-ch Angers, 1990, where he scored 11 of 14 possible points (79%) against 2462-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2644.^[4]

On the April 2009 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2392.

Notable games

Marc Santo Roman vs Benoit Lepelletier, FRA-ch 1997, Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation, Keres Attack (B81), 1-0
Suat Atalik vs Marc Santo Roman, Cappelle la Grande 1999, Dutch Defense: Semi-Leningrad Variation (A81), 1/2-1/2

References

^ ^a ^b Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, pp. 371–2, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
^ Delaire, Eric. "Championnats de France" (in French). Pagesperso-Orange.fr. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
^ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Men's Chess Olympiads: Marc Santo-Roman". OlimpBase. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
^ Sonas, Jeff. "Event Details: FRA-ch Angers, 1990". Chessmetrics. Retrieved 2009-07-08.