Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2021
Full name	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Country	France
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2785 #7 in the Jan 2016 FIDE ranking list
Peak rating	2785 (January 2016)

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (born 21 October 1990) is a French chess Grandmaster and the 2009 World Junior Chess Champion. MVL, as he is sometimes called, is at present their strongest player.

Grandmaster norms

He completed his final grandmaster norm in 2005, at 14 years, 4 months. He got his norms in these tournaments:

• Paris Championship 2004: finished 3rd with 6½ points from nine rounds and a rating performance of 2703
• NAO GM Tournament 2004: won the tournament with 6/9 and got a performance of 2605
• GM Tournament of Évry: from 21 to 27 February 2005, finished second with 7½ and a performance of 2712

Vachier-Lagrave playing against Viswanathan Anand during the Alekhine Memorial in Paris, 2013

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Media

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  Vachier-Lagrave (left) chatting with Vladimir Kramnik at the World Blitz Chess Championship, 2015 in Berlin. (Alexander Grischuk is on the right).