Jules Moussard
| Jules Moussard | |
|---|---|
 Jules Moussard in 2016 | |
| Country | France |
| Born | 16 January 1995 Paris, France |
| Title | Grandmaster (2016) |
| FIDE rating | 2600 (December 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2686 (September 2022) |
| Peak ranking | No. 51 (September 2022) |
Jules Moussard (French pronunciation: [ʒyl musaʁ]; born 16 January 1995) is a French chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 2016.
Career
[edit]Born in Paris,[1] Moussard won seven titles at the French youth championships. He is the only player to have won a title in every age category, including the adult championship since his 2022 victory in finals against Étienne Bacrot. 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
[edit]- ^ Arnaud Hauchard. "Nos jeunes espoirs" Archived 2016-08-06 at the Wayback Machine. evry-grandroque.com (in French). Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ World Youth Chess Championships 2004 Boys U10. chess-results.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ "List of titles approved by General Assembly in Baku, Azerbaijan". FIDE. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ Mihajlova, Diana (13 October 2018). "A joyful time in Paris". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ Crowther, Mark (17 December 2018). "10th London Chess Classic 2018". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ "Jules Moussard remporte l'Open de Londres !". www.echecs.asso.fr (in French). 19 December 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2019.