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Viorel Iordăchescu
Viorel Iordăchescu (born 20 April 1977) is a chess grandmaster from the Republic of Moldova, member of the Olympic Team of the Republic of Moldova, FIDE Senior Trainer, commentator, the President of thNational Chess Academy of Moldova and politician. He was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Iordachescu competed in the FIDE World Championship in 2000 and 2004. In 2002, he finished third in the Corus Tournament C group in Wijk aan Zee. He tied for 1st–6th places with Reiner Odendahl, Erwin l'Ami, Daniël Stellwagen, Susanto Megaranto and Friso Nijboer at HZ Open in 2005. Iordăchescu won the 2006/07 Reggio Emilia tournament. In 2009 he tied for 2nd–4th with Alexey Korotylev and Sergei Tiviakov at the Moscow Open and won the 13th Open International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee on tiebreak over Vitaly Kunin, Abhijeet Gupta and Gerald Hertneck. In 2010, Iordachescu tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Hrant Melkumyan, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Gadir G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The List of states with limited recognition, unrecognised state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Moldova's Capital city, capital and largest city is Chișinău. Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was Treaty of Bucharest (1812), ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a Vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form United Principalities, Romania, but Russian rule was restored over the whole of the region in 1878. During the 1917 Russian Revolution, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlissingen Chess Tournament
The Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament (or HZ Tournament) is an annual international chess tournament which takes place in Vlissingen, Netherlands. at the tournament website The first two editions, held in 1995 and 1996, were known as Zeeland Open. It is hosted by the HZ University of Applied Sciences
The HZ University of Applied Sciences (Short: HZ) is a Dutch university of applied sciences with campuses in Zeeland
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David Arutinian
220px, David Arutinian in Dresden 2008 David Gareginovich Arutinian (born May 31, 1984) is a Georgian chess grandmaster since 2006, and an international master since 2002. He is ranked 9th in Georgia and 453rd in the world. His highest rating was 2593 (in April 2008). Arutinian's main results are: * Strasbourg Prestige open — 1st place * Aeroflot open A2 — 1st place. * In 2007, tied for first place with Wang Yue, Vugar Gashimov, Vasily Yemelin and Yuri Drozdovskij in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open. * In 2008 he tied for 1st–8th with Vugar Gashimov, Sergey Fedorchuk, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Konstantin Chernyshov, Andrei Deviatkin, Vasilios Kotronias and Erwin L'Ami in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open. * 2009: 2nd place in 16th Vienna Open * 2010: he tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Viorel Iordăchescu, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Gadir Guseinov, Hrant Melkumyan, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Tornike Sanikidze in the 12th Dubai Open. * 2011: Sydney International Open — tied for 2nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gadir Guseinov
Gadir Guseinov ( az, Qədir Hüseynov; born 21 May 1986) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. he is ranked as No. 3 in Azerbaijan. Career Born in Moscow, Guseinov started playing chess under the guidance of Shahin Hajiev. He lived in his native city and played for Russia from 1994 to 1998. In 1994, he won the European under-10 championship in Băile Herculane. In 2008 tied for 1st–8th with Nigel Short, Vadim Milov, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Baadur Jobava, Alexander Lastin, Tamaz Gelashvili and Farid Abbasov in the President's Cup in Baku. In April 2010, Guseinov tied for 1st-8th place in the 12th Dubai Open Chess Championship with Viorel Iordachescu, Hrant Melkumyan, Sergey Volkov, Eduardo Iturrizaga, David Arutinian, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Tornike Sanikidze. Guseinov won the Ugra Governor's Chess Blitz Cup in 2011. In 2013 he tied for 1st–3rd with Igor Kurnosov and Aleksandr Shimanov in the Nakhchivan Open. Guseinov was nominated by FIDE president to compete in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Iturrizaga
Eduardo Patricio Iturrizaga Bonelli (born 1 November 1989) is a Venezuelan-born Spanish chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2008, making him the first Venezuelan to achieve this. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2007, 2009, 2013, and 2015. He is a four-time Venezuelan champion and has represented his country at eight Chess Olympiads. Chess career Iturrizaga learned to move the chess pieces at age five. "I opened with pawn to e4, then moved my knights, and put pawns on h3 and a3 for castling and to connect the rooks. For me that was all", he recalls. He moved to Peru when he was seven, and it was upon his return to Venezuela at age nine he started to take the game seriously. At age thirteen he attained the title of International Master. Iturizzaga won the Pan American under-16 championship in 2004 and the Pan American under-20 championship in 2006, both times in Bogotà. Iturrizaga won four consecutive national championships from 2005 to 2008, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrant Melkumyan
Hrant Melkumyan ( hy, Հրանտ Մելքումյան; born April 30, 1989, in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and European Blitz Champion in 2011. Chess career He won the international Internet championship organized by the ICC chess Internet portal. In 2006, he won the U18 silver medal at the World Youth Chess Championship. In 2009, he tied for 1st–5th with Sergey Volkov, Andrey Rychagov, Andrei Deviatkin, and Zhou Weiqi in the Chigorin Memorial. In 2010, tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Viorel Iordăchescu, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Gadir Guseinov, David Arutinian, Aleksej Aleksandrov, and Tornike Sanikidze in the 12th Dubai Open. In 2011, he tied for 2nd–4th with Borki Predojević and Mircea Pârligras in 41st International Bosna Tournament in Sarajevo; tied for 1st–2nd with Baadur Jobava in the Lake Sevan tournament in Martuni and finished second on tie-break; tied for 3rd–15th in the open section of the 15th Corsican Circuit. In December 2011 Melkumy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Volkov (chess Player)
Sergey Viktorovich Volkov (russian: Серге́й Ви́кторович Во́лков; born 7 February 1974) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was Russian champion in 2000. Volkov competed in the FIDE World Championship in 2000, 2002, and 2004, and in the FIDE World Cup in 2007. Career Volkov won the Chigorin Memorial in 1998 and in the following year he was joint winner with Alexander Grischuk. He won it again in 2009. In 2000 Volkov won the Russian Chess Championship in Samara. He tied for second place at the 2002 European Individual Chess Championship in Batumi, eventually placing third behind Bartłomiej Macieja and Mikhail Gurevich on a tie-break. He shared victory at the 2005 Rilton Cup with Evgeny Gleizerov and Emanuel Berg. In 2010/11, Volkov took a clear first place with 8/9 in the 40th Rilton Cup. In 2008 he won the bronze medal at the European Individual Championship for the second time in his career. In 2010, Volkov tied for 1st–8th with Viorel Iordachescu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Hertneck
Gerald Hertneck (born 18 September 1963) is a German chess grandmaster. Chess career Born in September 1963, Hertneck won the German U16 Chess Championship in 1980. He earned his international master title in 1985 and his grandmaster title in 1991. He competed for West Germany at the 1985 World Team Chess Championship, scoring 2/5 (+0–1=4). He has also represented Germany at two Chess Olympiads (1992 and 1994), and two European Team Chess Championships (1992 and 2001). His overall Olympiad score is 12½/20 (+8–3=9}, and his overall European Team Championship score is 7½/14 (+5–4=5). His peak Elo rating of 2615, set in January 1994, made him the No. 32 ranked player in the world. He is the No. 53 ranked German player as of April 2018. He is also a shogi , also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, ''chaturanga, Xiangqi'', Indian chess, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhijeet Gupta
Abhijeet Gupta (born 16 October 1989) is an Indian chess player with the title of Grandmaster (GM). Gupta is the first player to win the Commonwealth Chess Championship five times. He has completed his early education from A's Steward Senior Secondary School, Bhilwara and then embarked-upon his career of being chess player. Chess career He achieved the norms required for the GM title at the Andorra Open 2006, New Delhi (Parswnath) 2007 and Balaguer 2007 tournaments. On 15 August 2008, he won the World Junior Chess Championship in Gaziantep, Turkey, ahead of many other strong players, including Maxim Rodshtein, David Howell and Hou Yifan. He is the third Indian to win this prestigious championship, after Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna. In the same year, he also won the 6th Parsvnath Open in New Delhi. In 2011, he came first in the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship and in the Indian National Premier Chess Championship. In 2013 Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaly Kunin
Vitaly Kunin (born 2 October 1983) is a German chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2006. Chess career He played in the Chess World Cup 2017, where he was defeated in the first round by Lê Quang Liêm. References External links * Vitaly Kunin chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kunin, Vitaly 1983 births Living people Chess grandmasters German chess players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Wiessee
Bad Wiessee (Central Bavarian: ''Bad Wiessä'') is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Upper Bavaria in Germany. Since 1922, it has been a spa town and located on the western shore of the Tegernsee Lake. It had a population of around 4800 inhabitants in 2014. The word "Bad" means "spa" or "baths", while "Wiessee" derives from "Westsee", meaning "western part of the lake". Bad Wiessee was first documented in 1017 in the tax book of the Tegernsee Abbey, encouraged to pay goods to the abbey. Bad Wiessee is known for its healing sulfur-fountain, discovered by the Dutch oil explorer Adriaan Stoop in 1909 while he was drilling for oil. He built the first iodine sulfur bath in 1912 after oil production had been exhausted. People spend their holidays in Bad Wiessee because of its quiet atmosphere and its location at the north side of the Alps. Tourism is one of the main sources of income for the population of Bad Wiessee. Although spa tourism has declined in the last decades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million residents within the city limits, over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in the metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's largest cities; being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow grew to become a prosperous and powerful city that served as the capital of the Grand Duchy that bears its name. When the Grand Duchy of Moscow evolved into the Tsardom of Russia, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of the Tsardom's history. When th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |