Viktor Bologan

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Viktor Bologan, 2009
Association Moldova RepublicRepublic of Moldova Moldova
Born December 14, 1971
Chișinău
title International Master (1990)
Grand Master (1991)
Current  Elo rating 2574 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2734 (August 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Viktor Bologan , also Viorel Bologan or Victor Bologan (born December 14, 1971 in Chișinău ) is a Moldovan chess master.

Life

Bologan learned the game of chess at the age of 7 from his father. Since 1981 he had a permanent coach, five years later the top coach Vyacheslav Tschebanenko took him under his wing. Bologan, who already 13 years old candidate master was celebrating his first major success in 1989 in Kramatorsk in the Soviet youth team championship when he and Boris Gelfand and Alexei Shirov achieved the best result on the first board. In 1990 he became International Master ; In 1991 he became grandmaster after winning tournaments in Xanthi and Jūrmala at the tournament of young Soviet champions . In 1993 he won in Ostrava and at two tournaments in Las Palmas , in 1995 he won in Moscow .

The first successes that brought him to the top of the world came in the late 1990s: in 1997 he won the New York Open (together with Michał Krasenkow ), two years later he came second after Joël Lautier in Enghien-les-Bains and won in Belfort . In 2000 he had won tournaments in Minsk and Beijing as well as a shared first place (shared with Judit Polgár , ahead of Nigel Short and Anatoli Karpow ) at the Miguel Najdorf Memorial in Buenos Aires . In 2001 he won in Poikowski (ahead of Smbat Lputjan , Sergei Rublevsky and Wadim Swjaginzew ) and shared first place in Shanghai . At the turn of 2001/02 Bologan won in Pamplona ahead of Teymur Rəcəbov and Ulf Andersson , then in December 2002 also in Pamplona a four-master tournament together with Rustam Kasimjanov .

Viorel Bologan and wife (2003)
Bologan - Anand, Dortmund 2003

In 2003 he achieved the greatest success of his career so far when he won the Dortmund Chess Days ahead of Wladimir Kramnik , Viswanathan Anand and Péter Lékó . Bologan previously won the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. In 2004 he was fifth in Wijk aan Zee, ahead of Vladimir Kramnik, Jewgeni Barejew , Pyotr Swidler and Alexei Schirow , among others . In 2005 he again won the world-class tournament in Poikowski (together with Étienne Bacrot , in front of Alexander Grishchuk , Alexei Drejew and Pjotr ​​Swidler) and in Sarajevo (with Ivan Sokolov ). After this success, his rating improved for the first time to 2700 points.

In 2006 he was tied for first at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow ( Baadur Dschobawa was the winner according to the score ) and won the Rapid Chess Porcelain Cup in Dresden with 9 out of 9. Then he came third in Foros (after Sergei Rublewski and Wassyl Iwantschuk ). In 2012 he received the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.

Team chess

National team

Since 1992 Bologan took part in eleven Chess Olympiads for Moldova , scoring 67.5 points from 116 games. These were the 1992 , 1994 , 1996 , 1998 , 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 and 2014 Olympics . In 1992, 2011 and 2015 he played on the top board of the Moldovan team at the European team championships, where he won the individual ranking on the first board in 2015.

Club chess

In the German Federal Chess League, Bologan played for Dresdner SC from 1992 to 1999 (until 1994: Post SV Dresden ) and from 2011 to 2014 for the Eppingen chess club . In the British Four Nations Chess League he played in the 2001/02 , 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons for Wood Green , where he was British team champion in 2005 and 2006. In the French team championship he played at Club de Orcher la Tour Gonfreville until 2008 , and since then for Club de Mulhouse Philidor . The Russian team championship won Bologan 2003 Ladja Kazan in 1000 , 2005, 2007 and 2012 with Tomsk-400 . In the Spanish team championship he played for UGA Barcelona from 2004 to 2006 , in 2007 for CA Cuna de Dragones-Ajoblanco Mérida and in 2011 for CA Linex-Magic Mérida .

Between 1995 and 2014 Bologan took part in the European Club Cup 14 times and won it in 1996 with Sberbank Tatarstan Kazan , in 2005 and 2006 with Tomsk-400 . He achieved second places in 2004 with the ŠK Bosna Sarajevo and in 2013 with Malachit Ekaterinenburg , third places in 2001 with Gasovik Tyumen , 2007 with ShK Tomsk-400 and 2014 with Malachit Ekaterinenburg . Bologan won the individual ranking in 2004 on the fourth reserve board and in 2014 on the second reserve board.

literature

  • Viorel Bologan: Selected Games . Chessgate, Nettetal 2009. ISBN 978-3935748162 .
  • Victor Bologan: Chebanenko Slav According to Bologan . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2008. ISBN 90-5691-246-1 .
  • Victor Bologan: The King's Indian According to Bologan. A Complete Black Repertoire . Chess Stars, 2009. ISBN 978-9-548782-71-5 .
  • Victor Bologan: The Powerful Catalan. A Complete Repertoire for White . New in Chess, 2012. ISBN 978-9056914011 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 80.
  2. ↑ Dortmunder Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2003
  3. ↑ Viktor Bologan's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Viktor Bologan's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Viktor Bologan's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Viktor Bologan's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Bologan, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bologan, Viorel; Bologan, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moldovan chess master
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Chișinău