Maxime Lagarde

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Maxime Lagarde
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Lagarde in 2021
Country France
Born16 March 1994 (1994-03-16) (age 30)
Niort, Deux-Sèvres, France
Title Grandmaster (2013)
FIDE   rating 2604 (February 2025)
Peak rating 2659 (February 2020)
Peak rankingNo. 82 (February 2020)

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

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Chess career

Born in 1994, Lagarde earned his international master title in 2011 [1] and his grandmaster title in 2013. [2]

Lagarde finished second at the 2018 Reykjavik Open, [3] scoring 7/9 (+6–1=2). [4] He won the French Chess Championship in 2019, placing joint-first with 6/9 (+4–1=4) and defeating Laurent Fressinet on tiebreak to take the title. [5]

He won the 6th Purtichju Open in 2019. [6]

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

In 2025, Lagarde won the 1st rapid Caïssa tournament in Bordeaux. [8]

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. "GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2018 - Bobby Fischer Memorial". Chess Results. 15 March 2018.
  4. "GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2018 - Bobby Fischer Memorial: Lagarde Maxime". Chess Results. 15 March 2018.
  5. Khadilkar, Dhananjay (27 August 2019). "Lagarde, Guichard bag French national titles in thrilling finale". ChessBase.
  6. "6th Purtichju Open 2019 2019 - 365Chess.com Tournaments". www.365chess.com. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  7. "The Week in Chess 1348". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  8. "1st Rapid Caïssa results". echecs.asso.fr. Retrieved 10 September 2020.