Jules Moussard
| Jules Moussard | |
|---|---|
 Jules Moussard in 2016 | |
| Country | France |
| Born | 16 January 1995 Paris |
| Title | Grandmaster (2016) |
| FIDE rating | 2610 (May 2024) |
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 Under-10 category in 2004, tied with Yu Yangyi (gold medallist), Hou Yifan (bronze medallist) and Raymond Song (fourth).
He was awarded the title of International Master in 2011. FIDE awarded him the title of Grandmaster in 2016.[2]
In 2018, Moussard won the London Chess Classic FIDE Open on tiebreak score over Nicholas Pert, after both players scored 7½ points out of 9.[3][4]
References
- ^ Arnaud Hauchard. "Nos jeunes espoirs". evry-grandroque.com (in French). Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ "List of titles approved by General Assembly in Baku, Azerbaijan". FIDE. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ Crowther, Mark (17 December 2018). "10th London Chess Classic 2018". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Jules Moussard remporte l'Open de Londres !". www.echecs.asso.fr (in French). 19 December 2018. Retrieved 2019-10-27.