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Dragoș-Nicolae Dumitrache
Dragoș-Nicolae Dumitrache (born 7 December 1964) is a Romanian chess player, International Master (IM) (1987), Romanian Chess Championship winner (1991). Biography In the 1990s, Dragoș-Nicolae Dumitrache was one of the top Romanian chess players. He won individual Romanian Chess Championship medals twice: gold (1991) and bronze (1994). He participated twice in the Chess Olympiads (1994, 1996), he also represented the national team at the European Team Chess Championship in 1989, where the Romanian chess players took 6th place. Dragoș-Nicolae Dumitrache achieved a number of successes in international chess tournaments, including: * 1st place in Münster (1993), * 1st place in Budapest (1993, ''First Saturday'' FS03 IM tournament), * shared 1st place in Eger (1993, together with, among others, Lajos Seres), * shared 1st place in Timișoara (1994), * shared 1st place in Paks (1997), * shared 1st place in Sautron (2001), * shared 2nd place in Bijeljina (2002, behind Vlatko Bo ... [...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 "Grandmaster (chess), GM Magnus Carlsen". History The term "master" for a strong chess player was initially used informally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avoine, Orne
Avoine () is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France. Geography The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Le Breuil,La Villette, Le Montpertuis and Avoine. The commune is within the area known as the Plaine d'Argentan, which is known for its cereal growing fileds and horse stud farms. It is in size. The average elevation of the commune is . Avoine along with another 65 communes is part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents. The River Cance and the Poncey stream traverse through the commune. Population Notable buildings and places National heritage sites *Château d'Avoines 17th century chateau listed as a Monument historique in 1979. See also *Communes of the Orne department The following is a list of the 381 communes of the Orne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1964 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motors, Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day (Panama), Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 22 – Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the first Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elo Rating System
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American chess master and physics professor. The Elo system was invented as an improved Chess rating system, chess-rating system over the previously used Harkness rating system, Harkness system, but is also used as a rating system in association football, association football (soccer), American football, baseball, basketball, pool (cue sports), pool, various board games and esports, and, more recently, Large language model, large language models. The difference in the ratings between two players serves as a predictor of the outcome of a match. Two players with equal ratings who play against each other are expected to score an equal number of wins. A player whose rating is 100 points greater than their opponent's is expected to score 64%; if the difference is 200 points, then the expected score for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guingamp
Guingamp (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. With a population of 7,115 as of 2020, Guingamp is one of the smallest towns in Europe to have a top-tier professional football team: En Avant Guingamp, which played in Ligue 1 from 2013 until 2019. Guingamp station is served by high speed trains to Brest, Rennes and Paris, and regional trains to Brest, Lannion, Carhaix, Paimpol and Rennes. History The town has the remains of three successive castles, the last of which was razed to the ground by the order of Cardinal Richelieu in the early 17th century. They were reduced to three towers. Vincent de Bourbon, great-grandson of Louis XIV, was Count of Guingamp from 1750 to his death in 1752. Urbanism Guingamp is an urban commune part of the urban unit of Guingamp with 5 others cities of the department representing 22,049 inhabitants. The commune is also part of the Guingamp functional area. This area, which includes 15 communes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadim Malakhatko
Vadim Volodymyrovych Malakhatko (; 22 March 1977 – 5 June 2023) was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001 World Team Chess Championship. In 2000, he won with the Ukrainian team a bronze medal in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. Malakhatko died in Kyiv of a heart attack on 5 June 2023, at the age of 46. Chess career *1999 – came second at Alushta tournament *2004 – tied for first with Petar Genov in the 3rd Condom Chess Open *2006 – won Politiken Cup in Copenhagen *2007 – tied for 2nd–4th with Loek van Wely and Alexei Fedorov in the President's Cup in Baku *2007 – tied for 2nd–7th with Kiril Georgiev, Dimitrios Mastrovasilis, Mircea Pârligras, Hristos Banikas and Dmitry Svetushkin in the Acropolis International Chess Tournament *2007/08 – tied for first with Nidjat Mamedov and Valeriy Neverov in the Hastings International Chess Congress *2009 – came in first at the Arcapita Open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Fère
La Fère () is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in France. It was once famous for its military school (1720), one the oldest commissioned for instructing ordnance officers. History During World War II, Nazi Germany operated the Stalag 191 prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs in La Fère. Population See also * Communes of the Aisne department The following is a list of the 796 communes in the French department of Aisne. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Aisne Aisne communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Laon-geo-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantin Lupulescu
Constantin Lupulescu (born 25 March 1984) is a Romanian chess grandmaster and a five-time Romanian Chess Champion. He has competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2019, 2021. Chess career Lupulescu won the Romanian Chess Championship in 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015. He has played for Romania in the Chess Olympiad since 2004 and in the European Team Chess Championship since 2005. He placed clear first in Bucharest 2003 and Bucharest 2006 tournaments, tied for first with Vladislav Nevednichy in Timişoara 2006, placed second in the Victor Ciocaltea Memorial in Bucharest 2008 and tied for 4–8th with Tamaz Gelashvili, Anton Filippov, Nidjat Mamedov and Alexander Zubarev in the Open Romgaz Tournament in Bucharest 2008. In 2013 he tied for 1st–8th with Alexander Moiseenko, Evgeny Romanov, Alexander Beliavsky, Hrant Melkumyan, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Sergei Movsesian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexey Dreev and Evgeny Alekseev in the European Individual Chess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eforie
Eforie (; historical names (for Eforie Sud): ''Băile Movilă'', ''Carmen-Sylva'', ''Vasile Roaită'') is a town and a holiday resort on the Black Sea shore, in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. It is located about south of Constanța. Techirghiol Lake lies nearby. History Eforie Sud, the southern part of the town, was founded by the aristocrat Ion Movilă in 1899, when he erected a hotel named ''Băile Movilă'' (Movilă Spa). In 1928, the spa was renamed ''Carmen-Sylva'', after the pen name of Queen Elisabeth of Romania. In 1950, after the establishment of the Communist regime, the name of the city was changed again to '' Vasile Roaită'' to honor a railway worker shot dead during the Grivița strike of 1933. In 1962, the city was renamed yet again to Eforie Sud. In 1966, the city of Eforie was created by merging Eforie Sud with the northern resort Eforie Nord. Formally, the city is composed of Eforie Sud, the administrative centre, and Eforie Nord, a depende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladislav Nevednichy
Vladislav Nevednichy (born September 3, 1969) is a Romanian chess Grandmaster (1993) and Romanian champion in 2008 and 2012. He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, but was knocked out in the second round by Jeroen Piket. In 2007 he participated in the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia where he was eliminated in the 2nd round. He played for Moldova in the 30th Chess Olympiad in Manila 1992 and for Romania in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2012, and 2014. He tied for first with Kaido Külaots at Paks 2003 and tied for first with Constantin Lupulescu at Timişoara 2006. He won the Romanian Individual National Championship in 2008 and 2012. In the May 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American chess master and physics professor. The Elo system ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Epishin
Vladimir Epishin (born 11 July 1965 in Leningrad) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Tournament play He finished third in the 58th USSR Chess Championship in 1991. He won the 1987 St. Petersburg Championship. Other tournament successes include 3rd-4th with Vladimir Akopian at the New York Open Championship in 1998, first at the Monarch Assurance PLC 11th International Chess Tournament in Isle of Man 2002, and 1st–3rd with Vladimir Burmakin and Marijan Petrov at the 21st Le Touquet Open in 2006. Most recently, Epishin has been participating in chess tournaments in his native St.Petersburg (formerly Leningrad). Other chess-related He was one of the seconds (assistants) to Anatoly Karpov during the late stages of Karpov's career (from 1987 to 1996). A variation of the Benko Gambit The Benko Gambit (or Volga Gambit) is a chess opening characterised by the move 3...b5 in the Benoni Defence arising after: :1. b:Chess Opening Theory/1. d4, d4 b:Chess Opening Theory/1. d4/1. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
