Maxime Lagarde

Not to be confused with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

Maxime Lagarde
Lagarde in 2021
CountryFrance
Born16 March 1994 (1994-03-16) (age 30)
Niort, Deux-Sèvres, France
TitleGrandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating2604 (January 2025)
Peak rating2659 (February 2020)
Peak rankingNo. 82 (February 2020)

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

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. He placed joint-first with 6/9 (+4–1=4), and defeated 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]

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.



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