| Laurent Fressinet | |
| Country: | France |
| Birth Date: | 30 November 1981 |
| Birth Place: | Dax, Landes, France |
| Grandmaster (2000) | |
| Peakrating: | 2720 (June 2015) |
| Peakranking: | No. 27 (September 2010) |
| Fideid: | 608742 |
Laurent Fressinet (in French pronounced as /loʁɑ̃ fʁɛsiˈnɛ/; born 30 November 1981 in Dax) is a French chess grandmaster. He is a two-time French Chess Champion.
He won the French Chess Championship in 2010[1] and 2014.[2] In 2012 he finished second in the European Individual Chess Championship in Plovdiv.
Twice runner-up at the European Blitz Championship, in 2006 and 2007, and French Rapid Chess Champion in 2009, 2011 and 2022, Fressinet won the last leg of the French Rapid Grand-Prix in Villandry and finished second in the Grand-Prix Final in Ajaccio in 2012.
In the 2013 Alekhine Memorial tournament, held from 20 April to 1 May, Fressinet finished sixth, with +1−1=7.[3] In May 2014 he won the 22nd Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in Malmö, Sweden.[4]
In October 2015, Fressinet tied for 1st–3rd with P. Harikrishna and Gabriel Sargissian at the 2nd PokerStars Isle of Man International Chess Tournament in Douglas, Isle of Man[5] and won the 4th Anatoly Karpov Trophy rapid tournament in Cap d'Agde by defeating Karpov himself in the final 3-1.[6]
Fressinet has been Magnus Carlsen's second during all of his World Chess Championship matches: His 2014 World Championship match with Viswanathan Anand,[7] his 2016 World Championship match with Sergey Karjakin, his 2018 World Championship match with Fabiano Caruana and his 2021 World Championship match with Ian Nepomniachtchi.[8]
In April 2019, Fressinet joined chess24 as lead figure of the site's French team together with Josif Dorfman and Jean-Baptiste Mullon.[9]