French Champion GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave has joined the elite 27o0. According to Chessdom, after winning the Marx Gyorgy Memorial in Paks, Hungary, and combined with his fine performance at Paris International Championship, he gained 21.9 points and his new rating is 2702.
Trivia question: How many French players have broken the 2700 rating mark before? Can you name all?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Definitely Bacrot. Maybe also Tkachiev?! Lautier also comes to mind. Anybody else?
Alechine
Only Bacrot and now Vachier Lagrave
Seems Lautier peaked short of 2700, at 2690. Hence, only Bacrot and Vachier-Lagrave.
Do not thinkk you can account for Alekhine. If so, you would also have to consider Spassky.
He looks very young. How old is he?
Born October 21, 1990 according to Wikipedia.
deux joueurs seulement
Etienne Bacrot et Maxime Vachier Lagrave
I have a book called “Chess is the fast Lane” by Michael Adams and his father in which the father notes at one point that Michael, in 1991, had just passed the 2600 mark, which, he says “separates the so-called ‘Super’ Grandmaster from the ‘ordinary’ Grandmasters”.
Now we have people you’ve never heard of crossing the 2700 mark.
No rating inflation?
Only Bacrot and now Vachier Lagrave.
Philippe from PARIS !!!
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Never heard about Vachier-Lagrave?
So you are not informed enough about international chess to talk about it.
🙂
okay
Spassky never broke 2700 did he??
I doubt it…..
Ratings were not that inflated then…which is why fischers rating high was so astronomical…back then…equivalent to 2880 by todays standards
Kramnik,Tkatchiev,Spassky,Kan,Alekine,Tartakover.