Games: Chess, Bridge, Backgammon
Music: Bach, Rameau, Beethoven, Schubert, Monk
Litterature: Proust, Balzac, Flaubert, Voltaire, Tolkien, John Kennedy Toole
Technical analysis: Leon Wilson (with Bullcharts)
Economy: the Austrian School of Economics
Love food, wine, women... and a good Armagnac
French and Lebanese nationalities
Age: 70 years
| Type | Rating | Best | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Wild | Rating | 1506 | Best | |
| Type | Blitz | Rating | 1831 | Best | 2028 (10/Dec/2012) |
| Type | Standard | Rating | 1950 | Best | 1950 (17/Mar/2015) |
| Type | Bullet | Rating | 1726 | Best | 1775 (06/Jan/2018) |
| Type | 5-minute | Rating | 2139 | Best | 2372 (19/Aug/2009) |
| Type | 1-minute | Rating | 1908 | Best | 1924 (23/Jul/2019) |
| Type | 15-minute | Rating | 1985 | Best | 2034 (09/Oct/2012) |
| Type | 3-minute | Rating | 1997 | Best | 2037 (13/May/2020) |
| Type | Chess960 | Rating | 1646 | Best | 1810 (25/Jan/2011) |