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Cyril Marzolo

Number of games in database: 175
Years covered: 1993 to 2019
Highest rating achieved in database: 2491
Overall record: +49 -56 =70 (48.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 King's Indian (13) 
    E80 E92 E91 E70 E60
 Queen's Pawn Game (11) 
    A45 A40 D02 A46 A41
 Nimzo Indian (10) 
    E21 E54 E32 E38 E42
 Slav (8) 
    D15 D10 D17 D13 D11
 Queen's Indian (6) 
    E15 E17
 Grunfeld (5) 
    D80 D76 D82 D85
With the Black pieces:
 French Defense (16) 
    C03 C02 C18 C00 C05
 Sicilian (15) 
    B42 B48 B21 B43 B36
 Modern Benoni (6) 
    A70 A57 A62 A77
 Grunfeld (6) 
    D86 D74 D79 D94 D87
 Sicilian Kan (6) 
    B42 B43 B41
 Queen's Pawn Game (6) 
    D00 D02 A46 A45
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   O Brendel vs C Marzolo, 2007 0-1
   C Marzolo vs M Coulon, 2003 1-0
   S Ivanov vs C Marzolo, 2006 0-1
   C Marzolo vs D Pavasovic, 1997 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   3rd NAO GM (2003)
   French Championship (2005)
   Paris Championship (2006)
   European Championship (2007)
   Paris Championship (2005)
   European Championship (2005)
   French Team Championship (2012)

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 Sunway Sitges Open
   C Marzolo vs A Heimann (Dec-14-19) 0-1
   G Flom (Battaglini) vs C Marzolo (Jun-10-12) 1-0
   C Marzolo vs S Pucher (Jun-05-12) 1-0
   I Karim vs C Marzolo (Jun-04-12) 0-1
   C Marzolo vs V Bodenez (Jun-03-12) 1-0

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CYRIL MARZOLO
(born Sep-14-1978, 46 years old) France

[what is this?]
International Master. In March 2011, the Disciplinary Committee of the French Chess Federation suspended GMs Sebastien Feller and Arnaud Hauchard, and Marzolo, finding them "guilty of a violation of sporting ethics" for allegedly cheating during the Chess Olympiad 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk. http://en.chessbase.com/post/french... The Executive Committee of FIDE later "confirmed" the validity of that suspension, and itself imposed an 18-month exclusion from FIDE events, with the last nine months of that period suspended. http://www.fide.com/images/stories/...

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 page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 175  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. G Meszaros vs C Marzolo  1-0161993VillarsD00 Queen's Pawn Game
2. V Chernov vs C Marzolo  1-0321994Val Thorens opC00 French Defense
3. C Marzolo vs T Manouck  0-1121995FRA-chBB07 Pirc
4. Korneev vs C Marzolo  ½-½221995Lyon opB36 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto
5. C Marzolo vs B Plane  1-0311997FRA-ch U20A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System
6. C Marzolo vs R Fontaine  ½-½601997FRA-ch U20D35 Queen's Gambit Declined
7. C Marzolo vs P Cramling  0-1431997FRA-chTB 9697A58 Benko Gambit
8. C Marzolo vs D Anic  0-1351997FRA-chTB 9697A40 Queen's Pawn Game
9. V Gervais vs C Marzolo  ½-½291997FRA-ch U20D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
10. D Tyomkin vs C Marzolo  1-0361997EU-ch U20D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
11. C Marzolo vs T Karatekin ½-½391997Europe Juniors, TallinnE60 King's Indian Defense
12. C Marzolo vs D Pavasovic  1-0401997Mitropa Cup 17thD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
13. C Marzolo vs V Lukov  ½-½441998ParisE42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein)
14. C Marzolo vs N Nikcevic  ½-½151998ParisA53 Old Indian
15. V Gervais vs C Marzolo  ½-½321998FRA-chJM5D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
16. C Marzolo vs D Anic  0-1401998FRA-chTA40 Queen's Pawn Game
17. C Marzolo vs I Nataf  ½-½181999FRA-chTE80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation
18. P Theon vs C Marzolo  1-0211999ch-FRA (team)D00 Queen's Pawn Game
19. C Marzolo vs A Kosten  1-0301999FRA Cup sfA46 Queen's Pawn Game
20. P Varga vs C Marzolo  1-0221999Bischwiller-BD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
21. H Schneider vs C Marzolo  1-0671999Bischwiller-BB32 Sicilian
22. C Marzolo vs K Roser  ½-½91999Bischwiller-BE04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3
23. C Marzolo vs D Anic  ½-½412000FRA-chT 9900B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
24. C Marzolo vs S Drazic  0-1452000Bastia OpenD02 Queen's Pawn Game
25. C Marzolo vs G Olarasu  1-0362001Clermont-Ferrand opD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
 page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 175  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Apr-17-09  YoungEd: This guy has the greatest first name EVER!!!
Oct-14-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Photo: http://www.medchess.org/gallery/5th...
Mar-21-11  YoungEd: Great name or not, this guy was suspended by the French Chess Federation for cheating in an Olympiad: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...

Oh, Cyril! Oh, Humanity!

Mar-21-11  TheTamale: <YoungEd>: Doesn't really surprise me... wasn't the saint he's named after the one who slaughtered all those Armenians? The name is derived from "krill," which is a lower-level crustacean. They kill them in Norway for sport. Not all Cyrils are degenerate, however; Cyrille Diabate is currently having a decent run in the UFC.
Mar-22-11  BIDMONFA: Cyril Marzolo

MARZOLO, Cyril
http://www.bidmonfa.com/marzolo_cyr...
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Mar-22-11  YoungEd: Dear <TheTamale>: I once again bow to your superior historianship and etymological mastery. Keep on truckin' that informative truck, Tamale!
Jun-01-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: Wasn't it a Christian fanatic named 'Saint' Cyril who murdered Hypatia, the great Alexandrian mathematician? She was scraped to death with oyster shells. Not the act of a gentleman, as Voltaire observed.

Whatever his crimes, M. Marzolo is scarcely the worst of all possible Cyrils.

Jun-01-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <Dom> Nasty way to go, one would think.

Wonder whether Hyapatia Lee took her stage name from Hypatia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyapa...

Jun-01-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <perf> I admit I hadn't heard of Hyapatia Lee. That may say something about me -- that I knew about an ancient Alexandrian mathematician, but not about a contemporary Cherokee-Irish pornocrat.

Or about you, I suppose, with terms reversed.

Jun-01-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <Dom> Quite possibly both.
Jan-06-16  PhilFeeley: <Dom & perf> There's a good film about that story from 2009, called Agora:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830...

with Rachel Weisz in the role of Hypatia. As I recall, the murder scene wasn't as graphic as you describe.

Jan-06-16  PhilFeeley: A game in the Two Knights Defense missing here (and from Ninov's page) is Ninov-Marzolo, French Open, 2008. Why it's missing, I don't know, because it's a fairly recent game and a nice sharp one:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Bc5 (wow!) 5. Nxf7 (why not?) Bxf2 (!?) 6. Kf1 (!) Qe7 7. Nxf8 d5 8. exd5 Nd4 9. d5 cxd6 10. Kxf2 d5 11. d3 dxc4 12. h3 cxd3 13. cxd3 Bd7 14. Re1 0-0-0 15. Kg1 Rxh8 16. Be3 Qd6 17. Nd2 Bc6 18. Nc4 Qd5 19. Qd2 b6 20. Rac1 Kb7 21. Bxd4 Qxd4+ 21. Qf2 1-0

A nice miniature. Most of the games in this line are won by black, so this is a good theoretical note that should be here.

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