I'm a former professional player. I achieved FIDE Master title and best ELO rating 2336 in july 2002.
I am chess coach since 1995, and I obtained FIDE Trainer title in 2016 in Prague.
This week, I am launching the Thematic Week series, an event that will span four days, from Monday to Thursday, during the last calendar week of each month. These tournament series will provide the Chess Architect community with the opportunity ...
One of the biggest chess events organized by Romania was the World Youth Chess Championship, hosted by the beautiful city of Timisoara, in the summer of 1988. The organization of an event like World Chess Championships, at any level, demand a lo...
The Material Advantage is the ultimate advantage you can have during the chess battle, and the most important one in order to reach your goal: Kill your enemys king! It's good to have more or bigger chessmen than your opponent, but this si...
Today we start the Side Events at FISCA with the concept ALL YOU CAN PLAY, one fee for seven different chess variants available for our community. The first ever Chess Buffet start tonight in Bucharest at 20:30 EEST with very first dish, BLITZ, ...
The end of the month and the very beginning of the vacation for the kids happily coincide in the frame of FISCA 2020. Usually, since 1997, we play chess and have fun in Jupiter at Black Sea Coast, but this year we fight online not OTB. ...
Between June 1-9, 2020, the Moldavian Chess Federation and the Hannibal Chess Academy organize the International Chess Festival Cireșar 2020 with four tournaments for 8, 10, 12 and 14 years old kids. June is the time of year when the cherries ri...
IM Andrei Macovei (2453) won the 2020 Edition of the Cebanenco Memorial with 6 points, followed in the ranking by GM Vladislav Nevednicy (2531) and GM Viorel Iordăchescu (2589) with 5.5 points each. The pandemic failed to break the tradition of ...
10 top chess players will gather on Chess.com for two days to honor the memory of Viacheslav Chebanenko, the Patriarch of Moldovan chess. The actors of the show The 2020 edition of the Chebanenko Memorial, organized by Moldovan Chess Federatio...
Hundreds of emails, messages and special requests (thank you for your support and understanding), convinced us to extend FISCA2020 till 28 June 2020! The first ever online chess festival will start its games at Chess.com, tomorrow at 16:00 EEST,...
