Luc Winants
Number of games in database: 305
Years covered: 1980 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2539
Highest rating achieved in database: 2547
Overall record: +69 -96 =134 (45.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      6 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Queen's Pawn Game (41)      A45 D00 A46 A40 D05  Sicilian (13)      B90 B31 B30 B88 B87  Nimzo Indian (12)      E46 E42 E48 E21 E39  Slav (8)      D16 D15 D12 D10 D17  English (6)      A10 A15 A13  Queen's Gambit Declined (6)      D30 D31 D38 D37 D35	With the Black pieces:  Ruy Lopez (35)      C65 C72 C64 C74 C79  Queen's Pawn Game (16)      E00 E10 A40 D02 D00  Nimzo Indian (15)      E32 E33 E42 E41 E21  Queen's Indian (8)      E12 E17 E16 E15  Giuoco Piano (8)      C53 C50 C54  Sicilian (8)      B45 B63 B58 B31 B81

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Winants vs Van Blitterswijk, 2004 1-0
   Winants vs Carlsen, 2003 1-0
   Winants vs V Gervais, 2002 1-0
   Winants vs O Korneev, 2005 1-0

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LUC WINANTS (born Jan-01-1963) Belgium [what is this?] Grandmaster, Belgian champion in 1986.

page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 305  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Winants vs P Gelpke   0-1 57 1980 FRG-ch int U18 E96 King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, Main line 2. L Schandorff vs Winants   1-0 42 1982 Wch U20 B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening 3. Timman vs Winants   1-0 41 1986 Brussels SWIFT ,CBM E10 Queen's Pawn Game 4. Winants vs Suba   ½-½ 27 1986 Dubai (ol) 42/360 C17 French, Winawer, Advance 5. Winants vs Korchnoi   0-1 32 1986 Brussels SWIFT ,CBM 01 D85 Grunfeld 6. Romanishin vs Winants   ½-½ 32 1986 Brussels SWIFT A04 Reti Opening 7. Van der Wiel vs Winants   ½-½ 21 1986 Brussel B45 Sicilian, Taimanov 8. Winants vs Ljubojevic   ½-½ 40 1986 Brussels SWIFT E12 Queen's Indian 9. Winants vs Karpov 0-1 26 1986 Brussels SWIFT ;CBM 01 A46 Queen's Pawn Game 10. Miles vs Winants   1-0 72 1986 Brussels SWIFT A61 Benoni 11. Korchnoi vs Winants   1-0 40 1987 Brussels ,CBM 02 A04 Reti Opening 12. Winants vs Short   ½-½ 56 1987 Brussels SWIFT E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 13. G Welling vs Winants   ½-½ 15 1987 Wijk aan Zee masters A30 English, Symmetrical 14. E Torre vs Winants   ½-½ 37 1987 Brussels A46 Queen's Pawn Game 15. N Gaprindashvili vs Winants   0-1 55 1987 Brussels (Belgium) E10 Queen's Pawn Game 16. Winants vs Larsen   1-0 43 1987 Brussels A56 Benoni Defense 17. Piket vs Winants   0-1 42 1987 Wijk aan Zee II A62 Benoni, Fianchetto Variation 18. Van der Wiel vs Winants   1-0 40 1987 Budel zt B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack 19. Winants vs Kasparov 0-1 55 1987 Bruessel I D59 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower 20. Winants vs R Meulders   1-0 52 1987 Brussels A80 Dutch 21. Winants vs N Gaprindashvili   ½-½ 23 1987 Brussels (Belgium) D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 22. Winants vs Chiburdanidze   ½-½ 25 1987 Brussels mix D97 Grunfeld, Russian 23. Van der Wiel vs Winants   1-0 93 1987 Brussels SWIFT B63 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack 24. Winants vs G J De Boer   0-1 42 1987 OHRA-B D97 Grunfeld, Russian 25. Winants vs I Rogers   ½-½ 59 1987 Wijk aan Zee-B C33 King's Gambit Accepted  page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 305

Apr-08-05    PivotalAnorak: LuckyLuc on ICC if I'm not mistaken. A fellow countryman of mine, our only "home-made" GM at the moment (the - few - other ones being from Russian origin). Once the highest rated french-speaking player IN THE WORLD :-) (before the uprising of Bacrot, Lautier, etc). Cheers, Luc ! Apr-08-05    WTHarvey: Here are some chess diagrams of Luc's crucial positons in games not seen here: http://www.wtharvey.com/wina.html Apr-08-05    babakova: even higher rated than Spasskij? Apr-08-05    PivotalAnorak: Spassky can't speak French, I think - even though he is French now. Boris, si tu nous lis, n'hésite pas à nous faire signe... :-) Apr-08-05    cu8sfan: <PivotalAnorak> I doubt that his ICC handle is LuckyLuc, that guy doesn't really play like a master: http://www.chessclub.com/activities... Apr-08-05    centrumspits: Ik denk dat Pivotalanorak Luc's handle op playchess bedoelt! Apr-08-05    BaranDuin: His playchess handle is GoodLuc Apr-09-05    PivotalAnorak: <all> Sorry guys, my mistake: like BaranDuin said, it's GoodLuc Jan-10-06    BIDMONFA: Luc Winants WINANTS, Luc http://www.bidmonfa.com/winants_luc... _ Apr-27-09    Xeroxx: Win ants? May-17-09    ILikeFruits: this ant... is luc... Dec-18-09    waustad: He has had the questionable pleasure of being beaten by many of the best players of the age. I would assume that if a more complete record of his games were given, he'd look a lot better, at least statistically. Jan-01-11    wordfunph: Winants-Abolianin Belgian Team Championship 2000: On move 13's Qa4, GM Luc Winants left the board to buy a cup of coffee and when he returned, he found all the pieces had been reset on their original squares and his opponent had disappeared! Astonished, he looked around to see if someone was playing a joke on him --- when finally a team mate whispered the ominous words "his phone rang". happy birthday GM Winants! May-27-11    libertyjack: haha nice story <wordfunph> ! Dec-18-12    waustad: As I thought, he's still active and if you look at his results as far as the FIDE stats are concerned they are vastly better than what we see here. Very often people only post the games of their faves and it seems he hasn't gotten that treatment so far. Dec-18-12    waustad: http://ratings.fide.com/chess_stati... Dec-18-12    Kikoman: More info for GM Luc Winants :)x http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Wi... http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Wi...

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