César Boutteville is a French–Vietnamese chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

The son of a French father and a Vietnamese mother, Cesar Boutteville was born in Thin-Hao (or Thịnh Hào), nowadays part of Hanoi

Hanoi

Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...

's urban district Dong Da

Dong Da

Đống Đa literally Banyan Heap is an urban district of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.-Administrative divisions:The district is divided into 21 wards .-Streets:...

. He moved with his family to France in 1929.

He won six times French Chess Championship

French Chess Championship

The French Chess Championship is the annual, national chess tournament of France. It was officially first played in 1923after the formation of the Fédération Française des Echecs in 1921. The first unofficial national tournament was played in 1880, in the Café de la Régence, where further edition...

 (1945, 1950, 1954, 1955, 1959, and 1967), and won six times Paris City Chess Championship

Paris City Chess Championship

The first Paris City Chess Championship was held in 1925....

 (1944, 1945, 1946, 1952, 1961, and 1972).

Boutteville represented France seven times in Chess Olympiads from 1956 to 1968. He also played in friendly matches against Switzerland (1946), Australia (1946), Czechoslovakia (1947) and the Soviet Union (1954).

He took 3rd at Paris 1962/63 (Albéric O'Kelly de Galway

Albéric O'Kelly de Galway

Albéric O'Kelly de Galway was a Belgian chess Grandmaster , and an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster , most famous for being the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1959 and 1962. He was also a chess writer...

 won), shared 10th at Bordeaux, and tied for 8-10th at Le Havre 1966 (Bent Larsen

Bent Larsen

Jørgen Bent Larsen was a Danish chess Grandmaster and author. Larsen was known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play and he was the first western player to pose a serious challenge to the Soviet Union's dominance of chess...

won).