Jules Moussard

Jules Moussard
Jules Moussard in 2016
Country France
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2579 (October 2018)

Jules Moussard is a French chess player born on 16 January 1995 in Paris.[1] He achieved his fourth Grandmaster norm and the title by winning the chess championship of Paris in 2016.[2]

Youth Competitions

Awards at the French youth championships

Jules Moussard is the only player to have won the French youth championship in all mixed categories, claiming seven titles in total as well as one second-place finish.

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.

Vice-World Champion Under Sixteen (2004)

He won the silver medal at the World Under-10 Championship in 2004, tied with Yu Yangyi (world champion), Hou Yifan (bronze medal) and Raymond Song (fourth).

Grandmaster title

Jules Moussard was awarded the title of International Master in 2011. He achieved his fourth international Grandmaster norm by winning the Paris 2016 Chess Championship.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Nos jeunes espoirs Grandmaster on evry-grandroque.com.
  2. ↑ Jules Moussard champion de Paris on chess-and-strategy.com.
  3. ↑ Jules Moussard champion de Paris chess-and-strategy.com, 19 July 2016.
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