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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

208 games · Head-to-head

Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave: Head to Head Record

Magnus Carlsen leads 78–44 with 86 draws in the 208 games of the two in the Rama Chess archive, 2005 to 2025. Every game can be replayed move by move.

208

Games

Magnus Wins

Draws

Vachier-Lagrave Wins

Magnus

37.5%

Draws

41.3%

Vachier-Lagrave

21.2%

Quick answer · Updated October 2026

Magnus vs Vachier-Lagrave head to head

Magnus Carlsen leads Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 78–44, with 86 draws, in 208 games (2005–2025). In classical events Carlsen has won 8, Vachier-Lagrave has won 4 and 27 were drawn.

Type of event	Games	Carlsen won	Drawn	Vachier-Lagrave won	Carlsen score
Classical	39	8	27	4	55.1%
Rapid	72	26	31	15	57.6%
Blitz and bullet	88	38	25	25	57.4%
Armageddon	2	1	1	0	75.0%
Other events	7	5	2	0	85.7%
All games	208	78	86	44	58.2%

First gameMagnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave · 6th YM · 18 September 2005 · 1-0

Latest gameMaxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Magnus Carlsen · World Blitz 2025 · 30 December 2025 · 0-1

Vachier-Lagrave's latest winMaxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Magnus Carlsen · CCT Final KO 2024 · 20 December 2024 · 1-0

Carlsen's latest winMaxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Magnus Carlsen · World Blitz 2025 · 30 December 2025 · 0-1

With White / BlackCarlsen with White: 57–35–20 · with Black: 21–51–24 (won–drawn–lost)

Busiest year2022, with 32 games

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Source: the Rama Chess database of 7,484 Magnus Carlsen games, 2001 to 2025. It holds many of his games, not every game the two have ever played. The type of event (classical, rapid, blitz) is read from the event name; knockout tie-breaks are counted on their own.

Vachier-Lagrave's wins

Vachier-Lagrave's 10 most recent wins against Carlsen (of 44)

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Magnus Carlsen, 1-0CCT Final KO 2024 · 20 December 2024 · Rapid · Sicilian Defense · 57 moves
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Magnus Carlsen, 1-0CCT Final RR 2024 · 18 December 2024 · Rapid · Ruy Lopez · 77 moves
Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 0-1TechM GCL 2024 · 8 October 2024 · Rapid · King's Indian Defense · 54 moves
Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 0-1CrunchLab Masters Div 1 W · 20 July 2024 · Rapid · Sicilian Defense · 43 moves
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Magnus Carlsen, 1-0CrunchLab Masters Div 1 W · 20 July 2024 · Rapid · Ruy Lopez · 52 moves
Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 0-1CrunchLab Masters Div 1 W · 20 July 2024 · Rapid · Sicilian Defense · 59 moves
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Magnus Carlsen, 1-0World Blitz 2023 · 30 December 2023 · Blitz and bullet · Sicilian Defense · 47 moves
Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 0-1AI Cup Div 1 W · 29 September 2023 · Rapid · Queen's Gambit Accepted · 57 moves
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Magnus Carlsen, 1-0AI Cup Div 1 W · 29 September 2023 · Rapid · Sicilian Defense · 29 moves
Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 0-1AI Cup Div 1 W · 29 September 2023 · Rapid · Queen's Gambit Accepted · 49 moves

Carlsen's wins

Carlsen's quickest wins against Vachier-Lagrave

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Magnus Carlsen, 0-1chess.com SpeedChess 2022 · 16 December 2022 · Blitz and bullet · Scotch Game · 18 moves
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Magnus Carlsen, 0-1chess.com SpeedChess 2022 · 16 December 2022 · Blitz and bullet · Bishop's Opening · 22 moves
Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 1-0CCT Final Playoff 2023 · 11 December 2023 · Rapid · English Opening · 23 moves

Results by year

Magnus Carlsen vs Vachier-Lagrave, year by year (2005–2025)

Carlsen wonDrawnVachier-Lagrave won

Key position

How their latest decisive classical game ended

Final position of Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 83rd Tata Steel Masters 2021, chess board diagram — This is the most recent decisive classical game between them in our database: **Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave** at the 83rd Tata Steel Masters (31 January 2021), Magnus Carlsen won in 40 moves (classical). This is the position after the last move in the score; Maxime Vachier-Lagrave resigned here or lost on time.

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Photos

Magnus Carlsen and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Magnus Carlsen, chess world champion 2013-2023 — Magnus Carlsen, world champion from 2013 to 2023.Photo: Miroslav.vajdic, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, chess grandmaster.Photo: Lennart Ootes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Players after the prize-giving of the GRENKE Chess Classic 2017 in Baden-Baden, with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Magnus Carlsen among them.Photo: GFHund, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Head to head · Updated October 2026

Magnus Carlsen vs Vachier-Lagrave: the record

Magnus Carlsen and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave have met 208 times in the games collected here, from 2005 to 2025, across 90 events and all time controls (classical, rapid and blitz). Carlsen has won 78, Vachier-Lagrave has won 44, and 86 ended in a draw. That gives Carlsen 121 points out of 208, a score of 58.2%.

In 204 of these games, with the white pieces, Carlsen scored 55 wins, 35 draws and 20 losses in 110 games. With Black he scored 20 wins, 51 draws and 23 losses in 94. Vachier-Lagrave took 23 games with White and 20 games with Black.

The earliest game is from 2005 at the 6th YM; the most recent is from 2025 (Titled Tue 11th Feb Early). The busiest year was 2022, with 31 games. The opening seen most often is the Sicilian Defense.

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Results with White and Black

Carlsen played	Games	Won	Drawn	Lost	Score
White	110	55	35	20	66%
Black	94	20	51	23	48%
All 208 games	208	78	86	44	58%

White and Black rows count 204 of the 208 games; the last row counts all 208.

Year by year

Carlsen vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2005–2025

Year	Games	Carlsen won	Drawn	Vachier-Lagrave won	Carlsen score
2005	1	1	0	0	100%
2006	1	1	0	0	100%
2010	2	1	0	1	50%
2011	3	0	2	1	33%
2014	2	0	2	0	50%
2015	9	4	4	1	67%
2016	8	3	4	1	62%
2017	14	5	6	3	57%
2018	7	1	6	0	57%
2019	24	7	12	5	54%
2020	30	9	11	10	48%
2021	21	9	7	5	60%
2022	31	13	15	3	66%
2023	22	5	10	7	45%
2024	17	6	5	6	50%
2025	12	10	2	0	92%

Years of 204 of the 208 games.

By Opening

Openings in this matchup

Sicilian Defense59 Ruy Lopez36 Grünfeld Defense19 English Opening17 Réti Opening15 Indian Defenses12 Caro-Kann Defense10 King's Indian Defense9 Italian Game5 Queen's Gambit Accepted4 Scotch Game3 Pirc Defense3