Frédéric Lazard was a French chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master, problemist and journalist.

He lived in Paris where played in many local tournaments. He took twice 4th place in 1905, shared 3rd in 1908, took 3rd (Arnold Aurbach

Arnold Aurbach

Arnold Aurbach was a Polish–French chess master.At the beginning of the 20th century, he left Warsaw for Paris...

 won) in 1909, shared 2nd behind H. Weinstein in 1909, won ahead of Amédée Gibaud

Amédée Gibaud

Amédée Gibaud was a French chess master.He won the French Chess Championship four times and won the French correspondence championship three times...

 in 1910, tied for 1st with Aristide Gromer

Aristide Gromer

Aristide Gromer was a French chess master.Gromer was thrice French Champion .He tied for 5-6th at Paris 1923 , took 3rd at Biarritz 1926 , took 2nd, behind Chéron, at Saint-Cloude 1929, shared 2nd with Savielly Tartakower, behind Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, at Paris 1930, took 2nd, behind Aimé Gibaud,...

 in 1912, took 4th in 1914, and shared 2nd, behind Alphonse Goetz

Alphonse Goetz

Alphonse Goetz was a French chess master.Born in Strasbourg, France, he was a refugee after the Franco-Prussian War and the annexation of Alsace–Lorraine to the German Empire....

, at Lyon 1914.

In 1912, he drew a match with Gibaud (3–3), and lost to Edward Lasker

Edward Lasker

Edward Lasker was a leading German-American chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of International Master of chess by FIDE. Lasker was an engineer by profession, and an author.-Background:...

 (0.5–2.5). In 1913, he drew with Smirnov (1.5–1.5).

After World War I

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, he won at Paris 1920, took 2nd at Paris 1922 (Triangular, André Muffang

André Muffang

André Muffang was a French chess master.Before World War I, he took 3rd, behind Alexander Alekhine and Frank Marshall, at Paris 1914 ; took 5th at Lyon 1914 ; and won at Paris 1914 .After the war, he won at Paris 1922 , took 2nd at...

 won), represented France in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

The first Team Chess Tournament had been held by coinciding the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12th - 20 July 1924, at Hotel Majestic. The core of the organizing committee were the Frenchmen Pierre Vincent and Alexander Alekhine. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries arrived to Paris...

 at Paris 1924, took 9th at Strasbourg 1924 (French Chess Championship

French Chess Championship

The French Chess Championship is the annual, national chess tournament of France. It was officially first played in 1923after the formation of the Fédération Française des Echecs in 1921. The first unofficial national tournament was played in 1880, in the Café de la Régence, where further edition...

, Robert Crépeaux

Robert Crépeaux

Robert Crépeaux was a French chess master.He won three French Chess Championship at Strasbourg 1924, Nice 1925, and Paris 1941...

 won), tied for 2nd-3rd at Nice 1925 (FRA-ch, Crépeaux won), shared 1st with André Chéron

André Chéron

André Chéron was a French chess player, endgame theorist, and a composer of endgame studies. He lived in Switzerland for many years...

 at Biarritz 1926 (FRA-ch), took 13th in the 1927 Paris City Chess Championship

Paris City Chess Championship

The first Paris City Chess Championship was held in 1925....

 (Abraham Baratz

Abraham Baratz

Abraham Baratz was a Romanian–French chess master.In 1924, Baratz took 2nd, behind Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, in Paris. In 1925, he tied for 1st with Vitaly Halberstadt in the 1st Paris City Chess Championship. In 1925, he took 3rd in Paris . In January 1926, he won ahead of Dawid Janowski in Hyères...

 won), tied for 10-11th in the 1928 Paris-ch (Baratz won), took 7th at Paris 1929 (Savielly Tartakower

Savielly Tartakower

Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist of the 1920s and 30s...

 won), tied for 3rd-5th in the 1930 Paris-ch (Josef Cukierman

Josef Cukierman

Josef Cukierman was a Polish-born French chess master.- Biography :Cukierman was born near Bialystok, in 1900. He won the second Moscow City Championship . In early 1920s, Cukierman lived in Białystok, Poland, where he won a chess club championship in 1926...

 won), and took 10th at Paris 1933 (Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

 won).

He published a chess book Mes problèmes et études d'échecs (1928).

A younger brother of Gustave Lazard

Gustave Lazard

Gustave Lazard was a French chess master, problemist and organizer.He was an elder brother of Frédéric Lazard. His chess career took place in Paris. He tied for 5-6th in 1907 , took 8th in 1908 , took 9th in 1909 , took 7th in 1909 , took 7th in 1910 , and took 9th in 1912 Gustave Lazard (1876 –...

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