Maxime Lagarde (born 16 March 1994) is a French chess grandmaster. He won the French Chess Championship in 2019.
Maxime Lagarde | |
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Lagarde in 2021 | |
Country | France |
Born | 16 March 1994 (1994-03-16) (age 28) Niort, Deux-Sèvres, France |
Title | Grandmaster (2013) |
FIDE rating | 2631 (July 2022) |
Peak rating | 2659 (February 2020) |
Peak ranking | No. 82 (February 2020) |
Born in 1994, Lagarde earned his international master title in 2011[1] and his grandmaster title in 2013.[2] He is the No. 5 ranked French player as of August 2021.[update][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]
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