Yannick Gozzoli (born 2 June 1983) is a French

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

grandmaster.

Chess career

Born in 1983 in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

, Gozzoli earned his

international master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

title in 2003 and his grandmaster title in 2012. He is the No. 9 ranked French player as of August 2018. He tied for first in the 2018

French Chess Championship The French Chess Championship is the annual, national chess tournament of France. It was officially first played in 1923 after the formation of the ''Fédération Française des Echecs'' in 1921. The first unofficial national tournament was played i ...

with

Tigran Gharamian Tigran Gharamian ( hy, Տիգրան Ղարամյան, born 24 July 1984) is an Armenian-French chess grandmaster. He won the French Chess Championship in 2018. Chess career Gharamian played for Armenia in the Children's Chess Olympiads of 1999 a ...

and Romain Édouard. Gharamian won the playoff.Gharamian topped playoff over Edouard & Gozzoli to win French Chess Championship
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* * 1983 births Living people Chess grandmasters French chess players Sportspeople from Marseille {{France-chess-bio-stub