Lodici was born in
Brescia, but he grew up in
Chioggia, a town near
Venice. After gaining the title of
International Master in 2016, he won the Italian Junior Championship in
Cosenza in 2017. In 2018, he won the
Italian Chess Championship for the first time in
Salerno, defeating the Grandmaster
Alberto David in the play-offs by 2-0. Here he earned the first Grandmaster
norm. In 2021, he got the other two norms, gaining the
Grandmaster title. The first at the
Festival Holiday La Marca Open in
Villorba in June, the second at
Italian Team Chess Championship in
Montesilvano in September. In April he won the Mitropa Cup with the
Italian Team, playing in reserve board. He scored 4.5 out of 7 points. In 2022, he participated at
his first Chess Olympiad in
Chennai, where he obtained the 19th
performance rating in 3rd board, defeating the Norwegian
Super GM Jon Ludvig Hammer and drawing against the Indian
child prodigy R Praggnanandhaa. In 2024, at
his second Chess Olympiad, he defeated
Super GMs Anish Giri and
Peter Leko. In 2025, at the
Chess World Cup 2025 he defeated higher-rated grandmasters
Hans Niemann in the second round and
Michael Adams in the third round, before being knocked out by
Samuel Sevian in the fourth during the tiebreaks. == References ==