Olivier Renet

Olivier Renet is a French chess grandmaster.

Chess career

In 1990, he was defeated by Alexei Shirov, who used an idea from the later-disgraced former grandmaster Igors Rausis.
He was one of Romain Édouard's coaches, whom he met in the French Youth Team Championships.
In July 2019, he was the 8th seed in the Corsica Open International Chess, where he lost to Raunak Sadhwani, who eventually won the bronze medal.
In July 2024, he was part of the team who supervised the Île de loisirs du Val-de-Seine training camp, alongside Quentin Loiseau, Christine Flear, Romuald De Labaca, Silvia Alexieva, Laurent Guidarelli, Adrien Demuth, Matthieu Bissières, Yovann Gatineau, and Axel Delorme.