Viorel Iordachescu is a Moldovan chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 grandmaster

International Grandmaster

The title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....

 (1999). He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011

Chess World Cup 2011

The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 26 August and 21 September 2011, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia...

, but was eliminated in the first round by Sebastien Feller

Sebastien Feller

Sebastien Feller is a French-born chess Grandmaster.- Chess career :Feller achieved both his International Master and Grandmaster titles in 2007 at age 17. He won the French Junior Championship 2007 and was vice-champion of the European U16 Championships 2007...

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He tied for 1st–6th with Reiner Odendahl, Erwin L'Ami

Erwin l'Ami

Erwin l'Ami is a chess Grandmaster. He has emerged, along with Jan Smeets, Daniel Stellwagen and Jan Werle, as one of a new generation of talented young players from the Netherlands.-Early years:...

, Daniel Stellwagen

Daniël Stellwagen

Daniël Stellwagen is a Dutch chess Grandmaster.In 1999 he won the Dutch Junior Championship and won silver both at the World Junior Championship and the European Junior Championship . In 2003 he won the endgame study solving contest at the De Feijter Festival in Deventer with an unprecedented 100%...

, Susanto Megaranto

Susanto Megaranto

Susanto Megaranto is an Indonesian chess Grandmaster.He became the youngest Indonesian GM ever at 17, beating out Utut Adianto's record by four years....

 and Friso Nijboer

Friso Nijboer

Friso Nijboer is a Dutch chess player. He achieved the title of Grandmaster in 1996.Nijboer won the Vlissingen Chess Tournament in 2002 and 2005, and won the 3rd Nancy Chess Festival in 2005. He participated in six Chess Olympiad with an overall performance of +18 −14 =21.-Friso Nijboer vs...

 at Vlissingen 2005. In 2009 he tied for 2nd–4th with Alexey Korotylev

Alexey Korotylev

Alexey Korotylev is a Russian chess Grandmaster.In 2001 he tied for 1st-2nd with Semen Dvoirys at Geneva Open. In 2003 he tied for 2nd-4th with Vasily Yemelin and Alexander Rustemov in the Russian Chess Championship. In 2009, tied for 2nd-4th with Viorel Iordachescu and Sergei Tiviakov at Moscow...

 and Sergei Tiviakov

Sergei Tiviakov

Sergei Tiviakov is a naturalised Dutch chess Grandmaster.Tiviakov won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, in Plovdiv, he won the European Individual Chess Championship with 8.5/11....

 at Moscow

Moscow

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 Open. In 2010, tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Hrant Melkumyan

Hrant Melkumyan

Hrant Melkumyan is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. 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...

, Eduardo Iturrizaga

Eduardo Iturrizaga

Eduardo Patricio Iturrizaga Bonelli is a Venezuelan chess player. He achieved the title of grandmaster in 2008, making him the first and only Venezuelan chess grandmaster.-Chess career:...

, Gadir Guseinov, David Arutinian, Aleksej Aleksandrov

Aleksej Aleksandrov

Aleksej Aleksandrov is a chess grandmaster .-Selected tournament results:* 1991: Victory at the USSR Junior Chess Championship* 1992: Victory at the European Junior Chess Championship...

 and Tornike Sanikidze in the 12th Dubai Open.

He played for Moldova

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

 in the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

s of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.

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