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What is happening with Vachier-Lagrave?

He seems to be going through a terrible phase, I wonder what's wrong with him. He lost 5 of his last 9 games and won none, dropping 30 rating points and 17 spots in ranking.

It's sad to see a great player doing so badly. Hope he recovers soon. :(
He has probably had a burnout. He is one of the more active players around, or seems to me. Also plays a lot online. You will see- a holiday and bit of sowing of his wild french oats and he will be back in the top ten soon. Bad form happens to the best of them just not very often :)

damn, it took me a minute to find the mate in the chess captcha lol
To be fair, his rating peak was just this February and he isn't all that far from it (about 50 points). It's likely been just a bad spell.
I wouldn't read anything in that. Everybody has some good tournaments but also some bad ones. You can't always play at your best and MVL is only human after all.
Looks like MVL is back to form, what a difference a few months can make :)
Again the question could be asked , what is happening with MVL?
Congrats to him for his high FIDE rating and ,so far, successful time in Dortmund.

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