Maxime Lagarde

Maxime Lagarde (born 16 March 1994) is a French chess grandmaster. He won the French Chess Championship in 2019.

Maxime Lagarde
Lagarde in 2018
CountryFrance
Born16 March 1994 (1994-03-16) (age 26)
Niort, Deux-Sèvres, France
TitleGrandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating2640 (February 2021)
Peak rating2659 (February 2020)

Chess career

Born in 1994, Lagarde earned his international master title in 2011[1] and his grandmaster title in 2013.[2] He is the No. 9 ranked French player as of March 2018.[3]

Lagarde finished second at the 2018 Reykjavik Open,[4] scoring 7/9 (+6–1=2).[5] He won the French Chess Championship in 2019. He placed joint-first with 6/9 (+4–1=4), and defeated Laurent Fressinet on tiebreak to take the title.[6]

In 2020, Lagarde won the 22nd Trieste Festival.[7]

References

  1. 82nd FIDE Congress 2011, Krakow, 15-22 October, POL FIDE
  2. 2nd quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2013, 4-7 May, Baku, AZE FIDE
  3. Staff writer(s) (March 2018). "Federations Ranking - France". FIDE.
  4. Staff writer(s) (15 March 2018). "GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2018 - Bobby Fischer Memorial". Chess Results.
  5. Staff writer(s) (15 March 2018). "GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2018 - Bobby Fischer Memorial: Lagarde Maxime". Chess Results.
  6. Khadilkar, Dhananjay (27 August 2019). "Lagarde, Guichard bag French national titles in thrilling finale". ChessBase.
  7. "The Week in Chess 1348". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2020-09-10.


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