Gustave 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 organizer.

He was an elder brother of Frédéric Lazard

Frédéric Lazard

Frédéric Lazard was a French chess 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 in 1909, shared 2nd behind H...

. His chess career took place in Paris. He tied for 5-6th in 1907 (Frank Marshall won), took 8th in 1908 (J. Grommer won), took 9th in 1909 (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), took 7th in 1909 (H. Weinstein won), took 7th in 1910 (F. Lazard won), and took 9th in 1912 (F. Lazard and J. Grommer won).

After World War I

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, he shared 7th at Paris 1920 (F. Lazard won), took 8th in 1922 (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), took 12th in the 1926 Paris City Chess Championship

Paris City Chess Championship

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

 (Leon Schwartzmann

Leon Schwartzmann

Leon Schwartzmann was a Polish–French chess master.He was born in Warsaw, Poland into a Jewish family, and studied in Sankt Petersburg. In 1911, he tied for 5-6th in St Petersburg...

 won), tied for 10-12th in the 1927 Paris-ch (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), took 12th in the 1928 Paris-ch (Baratz 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).

He was a president of a chess club Cercle Philidor in Paris.