Maxime Vachier-Lagrave recently won the Grand Chess Tour Romania event in Bucharest. In the interview he gave before the tournament he said he enjoys different sports activities when he has time.

Two days ago, the French Grandmaster met an American professional basketball player who currently plays for Paris Basketball – Kyle Allman Jr. Despite the fact they met on the Basketball court, MVL and KJ played the game of chess. To save the reputation of their shooting guard, Paris Basketball didn’t want to share the result of the match.
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