Arnaud Hauchard
Arnaud Hauchard is a French chess grandmaster.
Played for France in the European Team Chess Championships of 1992 and 1997 and in the Chess Olympiads of 1998 and 2000. In 2000 he tied for 2nd–10th with Vadim Zvjaginsev, Sergey Dolmatov, Alexander Motylev, Alexander Grischuk, Maxim Turov, Nukhim Rashkovsky, Jiri Stocek and Valeri Yandemirov in the Ubeda Open tournament.
On the May 2010 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2526.
In March 2011 he was suspended for cheating. This suspension was later revoked by a French civil court due to technicalities. In July 2012 the FIDE Ethic Commission sanctioned the involved players and ruled "Mr. Arnaud HAUCHARD has to be sanctioned with the exclusion from the participation in all FIDE tournaments, as a player or as a member of a national delegation, for a period of 3 years, starting from the 1st of August 2012".
