Vachier-Lagrave Wins 6th Gyorgy Marx Memorial
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (pictured) is currently the second highest ranked French player at 2681 Elo, just 10 points behind Etienne Bacrot. There have been so many high-quality chess events taking place recently that Maxime's win at the 6th Gyorgy Marx Memorial tournament in Hungary has been somewhat under-reported.
Maxime is a chess prodigy, attaining the Grandmaster title at the tender age of 14 years and 4 months - currently the 9th youngest person to do so. He will be 18 in October and is now ranked 39th in the world and still rising ( his unoffical 'live rating' is currently 2702).
We are likely to see a lot more of Maxime in the future at strong chess events.
Here are the final standings from the tournament in Hungary:
| 1 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2681 | * | * | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 7 |
| 2 | Beliavsky, Alexander G | SLO | 2606 | ½ | ½ | * | * | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | 6 |
| 3 | Berkes, Ferenc | HUN | 2645 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | * | * | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2660 | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | * | * | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 4½ |
| 5 | Stellwagen, Daniël | NED | 2616 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | * | * | 1 | ½ | 4 |
| 6 | Acs, Peter | HUN | 2544 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | * | * | 3½ |
Here is Maxime's win against local favourite Peter Acs in the 4th round:
