Jules Moussard

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Jules Moussard
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Jules Moussard in 2016
CountryFrance
Born (1995-01-16) 16 January 1995 (age 26)
Paris
TitleGrandmaster (2016)
FIDE rating2621 (August 2021)

Jules Moussard (born 16 January 1995) is a French chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 2016.

Career[]

Born in Paris,[1] Moussard won seven titles at the French youth championships. In 2002, he won his first title in the French under-8 championship in Hyères, in front of Jacques Netzer. At the under-10 championship in Reims in 2004 he finished behind Stéphane Staatdjian, but won in the same age category the next year in Calvi. In 2006 in Aix-les-Bains, he won the under-12 title. He returned to this city in 2009 to win his fourth title, this time in the under-14 category. Two years later, he won the under-16 championship. Then in Nîmes in 2012, he won the under-18 championship ahead of Christophe Soshacki and Quentin Loiseau. In 2015 in Pau he won his seventh and last French youth championship in the under-20 division, ahead of Pierre Barbot and Raphaël Dutreuil.

Moussard won the silver medal at the World Youth Championships in the Under-10 category in 2004, tied with Yu Yangyi (gold medallist), Hou Yifan (bronze medallist) and Raymond Song (fourth).[2] He received the title FIDE Master for this result.

He was awarded the title of International Master in 2011. FIDE awarded him the title of Grandmaster in 2016.[3] Moussard won the Paris championship in 2016 and 2018.[4] Also in 2018, he won the London Chess Classic FIDE Open on tiebreak score over Nicholas Pert, after both players scored 7½ points out of 9.[5][6]

References[]

  1. ^ Arnaud Hauchard. "Nos jeunes espoirs". evry-grandroque.com (in French). Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  2. ^ World Youth Chess Championships 2004 Boys U10. chess-results.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  3. ^ "List of titles approved by General Assembly in Baku, Azerbaijan". FIDE. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  4. ^ Mihajlova, Diana (13 October 2018). "A joyful time in Paris". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  5. ^ Crowther, Mark (17 December 2018). "10th London Chess Classic 2018". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Jules Moussard remporte l'Open de Londres !". www.echecs.asso.fr (in French). 19 December 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
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