Andrei Istrățescu

Andrei Istrățescu, Warsaw 2012
Association	Romania (until 2011) France (2011-2017) Romania (since 2017)
Born	3rd December 1975
title	International Master (1992) Grand Master (1994)
Current  Elo rating	2551 (July 2020)
Best Elo rating	2677 (January 2014)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Andrei Istrățescu (born December 3, 1975 ) is a Romanian chess player . In 1992 he became International Master and in 1994 Grand Master . On May 4, 2011, he switched from the Romanian to the French chess federation , and on February 6, 2017, he switched back to the Romanian.

Life

Andrei Istrățescu learned to play chess at the age of four. He was trained by IM Mihail Ghinda . As a coach, Istrățescu worked with the winner of the U16 World Cup in 2007 Ioan-Cristian Chirilă . He is also on the coaching staff of the French national team.

successes

Andrei Istrățescu (2008)

Andrei Istrățescu took part in seven Chess Olympiads for the Romanian national team ( 1992 , 1994 , 1996 , 1998 , 2002 , 2006 and 2008 ) with a result of +18 = 38 −13. He participated in four European team championships (1992, 1999, 2005 and 2009) with the Romanian team and in 2011 for the first time with the French team with an overall result of +6 = 21 −5.

In 1991 he was U16 European champion in Mamaia , in 1994 he was a member of the Romanian U20 national team when he won the gold medal at the U20 European team championship in Çanakkale . In 2001 he won the 1st Rohde International Open in Sautron near Nantes and the Bucharest Spring Festival . In 2002 he shared the victory at the International Open in Corinth with Alexander Graf , Jewgeni Najer and Igor Miladinović , finished second behind Ian Rogers in group C at the Corus invitation tournament and won the international tournament in Trignac near Saint-Nazaire . In 2003 he won the 13th Gorge International Open in Gorges ( Loire-Atlantique department ), the 18th International Summer Open in Avoine ( Indre-et-Loire department ), the 3rd International Rohde Open in Sautron and the 2nd International Tournament in Nantes. In 2004 he won the 1st International Open in Niort , the 19th Summer Open in Avoine and the Quatrieme Open in Plancoët. In 2007 he won the 2nd Trophee Universitaire in La Roche-sur-Yon , in 2008 the Kaupthing Open in Differdange , 2009/10 the tournament in Hastings , 2011 the international Open in Malakoff and 2012 Neckar Open in Deizisau ahead of Konstantine Schanawa .

At Romanian individual championships, he often achieved good placements. He finished third in 1990, won the Romanian championship in 1992, came second in 1994 and 1996 and third in 1999. At the 2017 state championship, he won the title again with 7.5 points from 9 games.

In March 2005 he played a match in Bucharest with ex-world champion Anatoly Karpov , which Karpov won 6-2.

He played club chess in Yugoslav, Romanian, Greek, French , Dutch, Serbian, Spanish and Basque, Hungarian, Swiss , Luxembourg and Belgian leagues. In Romania he played for CS Contor Group Arad , in Greece for Kalamata , in France in the early 2000s for the Club d'Echecs de Sautron , from the 2010s to 2013 for the Club de Marseille Echecs , and in 2014 for Évry Grand Roque and in 2016 for Mulhouse Philidor , in the Netherlands for Kapodokya Purmerend , in the Basque Country for Gros Xake Taldea (for whom he also played in the Spanish División de Honor in 2005), in Hungary for the Nagykanizsai Tungsram Sakk-Klub , in Switzerland for the SK Mendrisio , from the 2010 season for the Lucerne chess club and from the 2012 season for the Club d'Echecs de Genève , in Luxembourg for Differdange I , from 2010 for Echternach and in Belgium for Namur , from 2011 for Charleroi and from 2012 for Wirtzfeld . He won the Hungarian team championship in the 2006/07 season with Nagykanizsai , who had since been renamed Aquaprofit . He won the Swiss team championship in the National League A (chess) in 2007 with Mendrisio , in 2012 in his first season there with the Club d'Echecs de Genève and again in 2015 with Genève. In France he was team champion with Marseille in the 2010/11 season . Istrățescu became Belgian team champions in 2012 with Charleroi and in 2013 and 2018 with Schachfreunde Wirtzfeld . In Luxembourg he was team champion in 2008 with Le Cavalier Differdange and 2011 with De Sprénger Echternach . At the European Club Cup Istrăţescu took in 1992, 1993 and 1994 with the SC Politehnica Bucharest , 2007 Gros Xake Taldea and 2011 with Marseille Echecs part.

Web links

Commons : Andrei Istrățescu  - collection of images

• Official Homepage (English)
• Replayable chess games by Andrei Istrățescu on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on the website of the International Chess School ( Memento from April 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
2. ↑ Andrei Istrățescu's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Andrei Istrățescu's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Andrei Istrățescu's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)