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Home » Chess Players » Chess Player Profiles » Maxime Vachier-Lagrave – The Chess Prodigy and Super Grandmaster From France

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave – The Chess Prodigy and Super Grandmaster From France

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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Chess Player Profile

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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is a French Chess prodigy, now one of the few on the list of Super Grandmasters, has established a brilliant career as one of the best Chess players in the world currently holding a classical FIDE rating of 2750. For more information on FIDE ratings, see the step-by-step guide on how to get a FIDE rating.

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This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. For more information, see our step-by-step guide on how to read Chess Notation.

Last Updated: May 12th, 2022

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Maxime is the son of a computer engineer father and a teacher mother, and he first started playing chess at age of 5, when he taught himself to read and started going to school a year in advance.

Now he has got his mathematics degree and the French number one is all set to start on a professional full time chess career. A real estate consulting company has pledged to support him to pursue his passion and to consolidate his position in the most congenial circumstances.

Achievements

Immensely precocious, he won the French Championships in 2007 at the age of 16 + years, which made him the second youngest French Champion in his country’s history.

Vachier-Lagrave made his presence known when he first participated in the Biel Chess Festival. He remained undefeated after 10 games and won the Grandmaster Tournament at 18, beating two former world no. 2’s (Ivanchuk and Morozevich). His eighth round victory with black pieces over Alexander Morozevich was selected as the best game in the Festival.

Vachier-Lagrave did not stop here, but went on to be crowned Junior World Champion in November 2009 in Puerto Madryn in Argentina. This young Parisian has set his sights to be among the world’s top 10 and is not making a secret of it.

He went on to become the eighth youngest Chess Grandmaster in history when he was 14 years and 4 months.

Did you enjoy reading about Maxime Vachier-Lagrave? If you did, you might be interesting in reading other player profiles such as Bobby Fischer, Daniil Dubov, and Hans Niemann.

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