Dragoș-Nicolae Dumitrache (born 7 December 1964) is a

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player, International Master (IM) (1987),

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winner (1991).

Biography

In the 1990s, Dragoș-Nicolae Dumitrache was one of the top Romanian chess players. He won individual

medals twice: gold (1991) and bronze (1994). He participated twice in the

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s (1994, 1996), he also represented the national team at the

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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

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(1993), * 1st place in

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(1993, ''First Saturday'' FS03 IM tournament), * shared 1st place in

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(1993, together with, among others, Lajos Seres), * shared 1st place in

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(1994), * shared 1st place in

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(1997), * shared 1st place in

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(2001), * shared 2nd place in

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(2002, behind Vlatko Bogdanovski, together with Constantin Ionescu) * 1st place in

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(2003), * shared 2nd place in Avoine (2003, after Andrei Istrățescu, together with, among others, Manuel Apicella), * shared 2nd in

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(2003, after

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, together with, among others,

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), * shared 2nd in Eforie (2003, after

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), * shared 2nd in

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(2004, after

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), * 1st place in

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(2008). Dragoș-Nicolae Dumitrache achieved the highest

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in his career on July 1, 1995, with a score of 2535 points, he was then 2nd (behind Constantin Ionescu) among Romanian chess players.FIDE rating history :: Dumitrache, Dragos
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* * * 1964 births Living people Chess International Masters Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century Romanian chess players 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-chess-bio-stub Romanian chess players