Maxime Lagarde

Maxime Lagarde
Lagarde in 2021
Personal information
Born16 March 1994 (1994-03-16) (age 32)
Niort, Deux-Sèvres, France
Chess career
CountryFrance
TitleGrandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating2597 (October 2026)
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 and his grandmaster title in 2013.

Lagarde finished second at the 2018 Reykjavik Open, scoring 7/9 (+6–1=2). 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.

He won the 6th Purtichju Open in 2019.

In 2020, Lagarde won the 22nd Trieste Festival.

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

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.