Cécile Haussernot

Who is Cécile Haussernot?

Cécile Claude Haussernot is a French chess player and is four times French Youth Champion: U-8 Girls 2006, U-10 Girls 2007, U-14 Girls 2008, U-14 Girls 2011 and U-16 Girls 2013. She became also French Vice-Champion U-16 Girls in 2009 and 3rd in the U-12 Boys category at the 2010 French championships.

Haussernot has won two European girls' championships. In 2007 she won the U-10 Girls' section at Šibenik, Croatia with 7.5/9 points and in 2009 she won the U-12 Girls' section at Fermo, Italy. She also got the Bronze medal in the U-12 Girls category at Batumi in 2010.

She also finished 4th at the World Youth Championships in the Girls U-10 in 2008.

Haussernot learned how to move the pieces at the age of five, and was invited to play on her club's team at the age of six and then learned the basics. She has been coached by players such as Aliaksei Charnushevich, Yannick Berthelot, Andrei Sokolov, Vladimir Lazarev, Hichem Hamdouchi, Éric Prié and Olivier Renet. Her current trainer is Jean-Noël Riff.

Haussernot won the Woman FIDE Master title in 2007 and holds a rating of 2135 on the May 2013 list. She plays in the chess club at Mulhouse.