Maxime Lagarde

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. He placed joint-first with 6/9 (+4–1=4), and defeated Laurent Fressinet on tiebreak to take the title.

He won the 6th Purtichju Open in 2019.

In 2020, Lagarde won the 22nd Trieste Festival.