Ioan-Cristian Chirilă (born 6 January 1991) is a Romanian

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player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by

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in 2009.

Chess career

In 2001, Chirilă won the Romanian youth championship when he was 10 years old. He repeated this achievement the following year in the Romanian under 12 championship. Chirilă won two more Romanian youth championships, in 2006 and 2009. He participated in the European Youth Team Championship, winning two medals for individual results: gold (2008, on the first board) and silver (2006, on the second board). In 2007, Chirilă became world youth champion in the U-16 age group. In 2010 he was awarded a full ride scholarship at the

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. In April 2015, Chirilă finished runner-up to Yuniesky Quezada in the Philadelphia Open. In 2016 Chirilă won the Millionaire Chess Open in the U-2550 rating group. In June 2018 he won the National Open tournament in Las Vegas, US. This success earned Chirilă his first magazine cover for ''

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'', one of the major American chess magazines. In September–October he was part of the Romanian team at the

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. Chirilă served as one of the

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during the 2018 World Chess Championship match. Together, the pair host th
C-Squared podcast
on YouTube as well as its correspondin
Twitter account
Their podcast focuses on chess and frequently features high profile chess figures.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chirila, Ioan-Cristian 1991 births Living people Chess Grandmasters Chess players from Bucharest Romanian chess players World Youth Chess Champions Romanian Twitch (service) streamers University of Texas at Dallas alumni Chess Olympiad competitors Chess coaches