Jules Moussard (; born 16 January 1995) is a French
chess
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player. He holds the title of
Grandmaster, which
FIDE awarded him in 2016.
Career
Born in Paris, 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
Étienne Bacrot (; born 22 January 1983) is a French chess grandmaster, and as a child, a chess prodigy.
He competed at the Candidates Matches in 2007 and won the Aeroflot Open in 2009. He passed 2700 FIDE rating in 2004 and in January 2005 ...
. In 2002, he won his first title in the French under-8 championship in
Hyères
Hyères (), Provençal Occitan: ''Ieras'' in classical norm, or ''Iero'' in Mistralian norm) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
The old town lies from the sea clustered arou ...
, 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
Aix-les-Bains (, ; frp, Èx-los-Bens; la, Aquae Gratianae), locally simply Aix, is a commune in the southeastern French department of Savoie. , 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
Hou Yifan ( ; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and the second highest rated female player of all time. (bronze medallist) and Raymond Song (fourth). He received the title
FIDE Master
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for this result.
He was awarded the title of
International Master in 2011. FIDE awarded him the title of
Grandmaster in 2016. Moussard won the
Paris championship in 2016 and 2018. Also in 2018, he won the
London Chess Classic
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FIDE Open on tiebreak score over
Nicholas Pert, after both players scored 7½ points out of 9.
References
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1995 births
Living people
Chess Grandmasters
French chess players
Sportspeople from Paris