page_title: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
section_title: Classical international tournaments
hierarchical_section_title: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave / Chess career / Classical international tournaments
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Partie opposant maxime Vachier Lagrave à Vishwanathan Anad au Mémorial Alakhine en Avril 2013 à Paris
context_page_description: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is a French chess player, the top ranked of his country.He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2005, at age 14. His peak Elo rating of 2819 makes him the seventh-highest rated player of all time. He is often referred to by his initials, MVL.
  He was world junior champion in 2009 and is a three-time French champion. Vachier-Lagrave is a five-time winner of the Biel Grandmaster Tournament, and won the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting in 2016 and the Sinquefield Cup in 2017.
  He participated in seven Chess Olympiads and four European Team Chess Championships as a member of the French national team and has been a member of the winning team of the French Team Championship multiple times.
context_section_description: 2006: Aeroflot Open, Moscow: played the A1 (main) tournament, reserved for players having a rating superior to 2550. He finished sixth with 6 points out of 9 and a TPR of 2775.
  Young Masters, Lausanne 2006: being the youngest player invited, won the tournament with a TPR of 2630.
  2007: Corus tournament B, Wijk aan Zee: finished 5th with 8 points out of 13.
  Winner of the 2007 and 2008 Paris City Chess Championships with 7 points out of 9.
  2008: 2nd-10th place at the European Individual Chess Championship with 8 points out of 13
  Winner of the 2008 Gregory Marx Memorial in Paks, with 7 points out of 10.
  Winner of the 2009 Biel Grandmaster Tournament with 6 points out of 10 ahead of Morozevich and Ivanchuk.
  Winner of the 2009 World Junior Chess Championship.
  Winner of the 2010 Hoogeveen tournament.
  Winner of the 2012 SPICE Cup Festival at Webster University with 6 points out of 10 ahead of Le Quang Liem, Ding Liren, Wesley So, Georg Meier, and Csaba Balogh.
  2012: 1st-2nd of the first Al Ain Classic, second on tie-break (number of wins).
  2013: In the Alekhine Memorial tournament, held from 20 April to 1 May in Paris, Vachier-Lagrave finished eighth, with +2−2=5.
  Winner of the 2013 Biel Grandmaster Tournament (+3 -2 =5) after a tie-break against three players (Moiseenko, Bacrot and Ding Liren).
  Winner of the 2014 Biel Grandmaster Tournament with 6 points out of 10 ahead of Radoslaw Wojtaszek.
  2014: Scored 4/10 (fourth place) in the Sinquefield Cup 2014 in Saint Louis, USA, the strongest chess tournament ever held in the history of chess.
  2015: 2nd place in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.
  Winner of the 2015 Biel Grandmaster Tournament with 6.5 points out of 10 ahead of Radoslaw Wojtaszek. 4th victory in Biel and 3rd consecutive victory.
  2015: Fourth place at the 3rd Sinquefield Cup
  2016: Second Place at the Gibraltar Chess Festival after a tie-break against Hikaru Nakamura.
  Winner of the 2016 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting with 5.5 points out of 7. Ahead of multiple-time previous winners Vladimir Kramnik and Fabiano Caruana.
  2017: 2nd-3rd place at the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
  2018: Second Place at the Gibraltar Chess Festival after a tie-break against Levon Aronian.
  2018: Third place at the 5th Grenke Chess Classic with a score of 5/9 (+2–1=6).
  2018: Eighth place at the sixth edition of Norway Chess, with a score of 3/8 (+0–2=6).
  Winner of the 2018 Shenzhen Masters on tiebreak, with a score of 5.5/10 (+1=9), defeating Ding Liren in their direct encounter (1.5-0.5).
  2019: Fourth place at the 6th Grenke Chess Classic with a score of 5/9 (+2–1=6).
caption: Vachier-Lagrave playing against Viswanathan Anand during the Alekhine Memorial in Paris, 2013
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