Viorel Iordăchescu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Viorel Iordăchescu

Chess grandmaster

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1977

Place of Birth: Chișinău, Moldova

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Moldova

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Viorel Iordachescu (born 20 April 1977) is a Moldovan chess player.
He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Iordachescu 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.
He tied for 1st–6th places with Reiner Odendahl, Erwin l'Ami, Daniël Stellwagen, Susanto Megaranto and Friso Nijboer at HZ Open in 2005.
Iordachescu won the 2006/07 Reggio Emilia tournament.In 2009 he tied for 2nd–4th with Alexey Korotylev and Sergei Tiviakov at the Moscow Open and won the 13th Open International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee on tiebreak over Vitaly Kunin, Abhijeet Gupta and Gerald Hertneck.
In 2010, Iordachescu 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.
The next year, he took part in the FIDE World Cup, where he was eliminated in the first round by Sébastien Feller.
In 2012 Iordachescu won the Nakhchivan Open edging out Sergei Zhigalko and Eltaj Safarli on tiebreak score.
Iordachescu 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.Iordachescu played for the Moldovan team in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016 and 2018.