What is Maxime Vachier-Lagrave?
{{Infobox chess player |image= Maxime Vachier-Lagrave au tournoi des candidats (cropped).jpg |playername = Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |caption= 2021 |birthname = Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |country = {{FRA}} |datebirth = {{Birth date and age|1990|10|21|df=y}} |placebirth = [[Nogent-sur-Marne]], France |death_date = |death_place = |title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] |worldchampion = |womensworldchampion = |rating = 2785 <br /><small>#7 in the Jan 2016 [[FIDE]] ranking list</small> |peakrating = 2785 (January 2016) }}'''Maxime Vachier-Lagrave''' (born 21 October 1990) is a French [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (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 [[File:Maxime Vachier-Lagrave contre Vishwanathan Anand 2013.JPG|thumb|300px|left|Vachier-Lagrave playing against [[Viswanathan Anand]] during the [[Alekhine]] Memorial in Paris, 2013]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime}} [[Category:1990 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Chess grandmasters]] [[Category:French chess players]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Val-de-Marne]]