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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, an Uncommon card
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 120
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 56,000
Power 120 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Maxime Vachier-Lagrave card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
With a peak rating of 2819, he is the seventh-highest rated player in ______.
Answer
history. With a peak rating of 2819, he is the seventh-highest rated player in history. From the Maxime Vachier-Lagrave article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
A chess prodigy, Vachier-Lagrave earned the title of grandmaster in ____ at age 14.
Answer
2000s. A chess prodigy, Vachier-Lagrave earned the title of grandmaster in 2005 at age 14. From the Maxime Vachier-Lagrave article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- With a peak rating of 2819, he is the seventh-highest rated player in history.
- A chess prodigy, Vachier-Lagrave earned the title of grandmaster in 2005 at age 14.
- In 2007, he won the French Chess Championship, and in 2009, won the World Junior Chess Championship and the Biel Grandmaster Tournament.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Maxime Vachier-Lagrave article was read about 56,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Lennart Ootes, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.