Viorel Iordăchescu

Viorel Iordăchescu (born 20 April 1977) is a Moldovan chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999.

Viorel Iordăchescu
CountryMoldova
Born (1977-04-20) 20 April 1977
Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (1999)
FIDE rating2589 (February 2021)
Peak rating2651 (January 2012)

Iordăchescu 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.[1] He tied for 1st–6th places with Reiner Odendahl, Erwin l'Ami, Daniël Stellwagen, Susanto Megaranto and Friso Nijboer at HZ Open in 2005.[2] Iordăchescu won the 2006/07 Reggio Emilia tournament.[3]

In 2009 he tied for 2nd–4th with Alexey Korotylev and Sergei Tiviakov at the Moscow Open[4] and won the 13th Open International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee on tiebreak over Vitaly Kunin, Abhijeet Gupta and Gerald Hertneck.[5] In 2010, Iordăchescu tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Hrant Melkumyan, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Gadir Guseinov, David Arutinian, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Tornike Sanikidze in the 12th Dubai Open.[6] The next year, he took part in the FIDE World Cup, where he was eliminated in the first round by Sébastien Feller.[7] In 2012 Iordăchescu won the Nakhchivan Open edging out Sergei Zhigalko and Eltaj Safarli on tiebreak score.[8] Iordăchescu competed in the FIDE World Cup 2015, losing in round one to Yu Yangyi. In the same year, he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer. In 2016 he won the Moldovan Chess Championship.[9]

Iordăchescu played for the Moldovan team in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012,[10] 2016 and 2018.

References
  1. "The Week in Chess 378". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  2. "Tournament report October 2005: Hogeschool Zeeland Schaak". World Chess Federation. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  3. "The Week in Chess 635". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  4. "Moscow open 2009 A". World Chess Federation. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  5. Doggers, Peter (2009-11-10). "Four-way tie in Bad Wiessee". ChessVibes. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  6. "Tournament report July 2010: 12th Dubai Open 2010". World Chess Federation. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  7. Crowther, Mark (2011-09-21). "The Week in Chess: FIDE World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk 2011". London Chess Center. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  8. "Nakhchivan Open 2012: Three players share first, Iordachescu declared winner". Chessdom. 2012-05-07. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  9. Viorel Iordachescu și Svetlana Petrenko – Campionii Republicii Moldova la Șah Clasic 2016. Moldovan Chess Federation. (in Romanian)
  10. Bartelski, Wojciech. "Men's Chess Olympiads: Viorel Iordăchescu". OlimpBase. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
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