Mihaela Sandu

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Mihaela Sandu (born February 19, 1977 in Ploieşti ) is a Romanian chess player .

successes

At the 1st European Youth Championships for girls in the U14 age group in 1991 in Mamaia, Romania, she came second behind Maia Lomineishvili . At the Romanian women's individual championship she was third in 2013 and second behind Corina-Isabela Peptan in 2014 .

For the Romanian women's national team she played at the European Team Championships in 2009 in Novi Sad on the fourth board and in 2015 in Reykjavík as a reserve player and at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø on the reserve board.

Mihaela Sandu plays club chess in Romania for the Club Sportiv Studențesc Medicina Timișoara . In France she played in the Nationale 2 and Nationale 1 team chess in the 2007/08 season. In the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) she played in the 2007/08 and 2008/09 seasons for the 2nd team of Guildford A&DC and in the 2017/18 season for 3Cs , in the 2013 Bulgarian women's championship for the club Marek- Union Ivkoni from Dupnitsa .

At the 2015 European Women's Chess Championship, Sandu was accused of cheating by 15 participants after winning her first five games as 45th on the seed list. The allegations were not confirmed. In proceedings before the FIDE ethics committee , Natalja Schukova , the initiator of the protest, was suspended for three months on account of unjustified accusations.

Since June 2007, Sandu has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). She achieved the norms for this in France: at a tournament in Marseille in July 2006, in the same month with over-fulfillment at the Loubatiere Masters in Montpellier and in March 2007 at the 23rd Open in Cappelle-la-Grande , also with over-fulfillment. She has been the women's grandmaster (WGM) since November 2008. She achieved the norms for her WGM title in April 2007 at the 25th international tournament in Metz , in the Romanian women's league in October 2007 with overachievement, and in September 2008 at the ROMGAZ Open in Bucharest , where she won against Grand Masters Boris Tschatalbaschew and Wadym Schyshkin , among others .

Her Elo number is 2268 (as of December 2019), her highest Elo number of 2347 she reached in June and July 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of Mihaela Sandu at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Results of Mihaela Sandu at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Colin McGourty: European Women's Championship cheating? , Chess24, May 30, 2015
  4. ↑ "Дело Санду": преступление и наказание? , Chess-news.ru, April 26, 2017
  5. ↑ WIM application (English)
  6. ↑ WGM application (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sandu, Mihaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Ploieşti