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Dragoș Cereș
Dragoș Cereș (born 2004) is a Moldovan chess player who holds the title of International Master (IM, 2022). He won Moldovan Chess Championship (2022). Biography Dragoș Cereș multiple times won Moldovan Youth Chess Championships in various age groups: U10 (2014), U14 (2018) and U16 (2019). He participated in European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships. In 2019 Dragoș Cereș ranked in 2nd place in European School Chess Championship in U15 age group. In 2022 Dragoș Cereș won Moldovan Chess Championship. In August 2023, he finished third in the Riga Technical University Open "A" tournament. Dragoș Cereș played for Moldova in the Chess Olympiad: * In 2022, at reserve board in the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIDE Titles
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 norms (performance benchmarks in competitions including other titled players). Once awarded, titles are held for life except in cases of fraud or cheating. Open titles may be earned by all players, while women's titles are restricted to female players. Many strong female players hold both open and women's titles. FIDE also awards titles for arbiters, organizers and trainers. Titles for correspondence chess, chess problem composition and chess problem solving are no longer administered by FIDE. A chess title, usually in an abbreviated form, may be used as an honorific. For example, Magnus Carlsen may be styled as "GM Magnus Carlsen". History The term "master" for a strong chess player was initially used informally. From the late 19th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moldovan Chess Championship
The Moldovan Chess Championship has been contested every year since 1944. Since 1949 a separate women's championship has also been held in most years. Both championships are currently held under the auspices of the Moldova Chess Federation ( ro, Federația de Șah a Republicii Moldova), which was founded on 2 November 1994. Open championship winners : Women's championship winners : References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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