Arnaud Hauchard

{{short description|French chess grandmaster (born 1971)}}

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|title = Grandmaster (2000)

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Arnaud Hauchard (born 15 November 1971) is a French chess grandmaster (2000).

Played for France in the European Team Chess Championships of 1992 and 1997 and in the Chess Olympiads of 1998 and 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/37x51ddg.html|title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Arnaud Hauchard|last=Bartelski|first=Wojciech|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=5 June 2010}} In 2000 he tied for 2nd–10th with Vadim Zvjaginsev, Sergey Dolmatov, Alexander Motylev, Alexander Grischuk, Maxim Turov, Nukhim Rashkovsky, Jiří Štoček and Valeri Yandemirov in the Úbeda Open tournament.{{cite web|url=http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Ubeda_op_5th_2000|title=Ubeda op 5th|publisher=365chess.com|accessdate=5 June 2010}}

On the May 2010 FIDE lists his Elo rating as 2526.

In March 2011 he was suspended for cheating. This suspension was later revoked by a French civil court due to technicalities.{{vague|date=July 2019}} 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 (three) years, starting from the 1st of August 2012".[https://old.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/6407-fide-ethics-commission-decisions.html Decision Summary of the FIDE Ethic Commission (see case N.2/11)][http://www.fide.com/images/stories/NEWS_2012/FIDE/FIDE_Ethics_Commission_Judgement_in_the_case_French_Team.pdf FIDE Ethics Commission Judgement in the case "French Team"][http://www.chessdom.com/fide-ethics-commission-suspends-hauchard-feller-and-marzolo Article with references on ChessDom]{{Cite web |url=http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/french-cheating-case-fide-confirms-suspension-feller-hauchard-marzolo |title=French cheating case: FIDE Ethics Commission confirms suspension Feller, Hauchard & Marzolo |date=30 July 2012 |website=ChessVibes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801081913/http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/french-cheating-case-fide-confirms-suspension-feller-hauchard-marzolo |archive-date=1 August 2012}}