Victor Ciocâltea

Victor Ciocâltea, Bochum 1981
Association	Romania
Born	January 16, 1932 Bucharest , Romania
Died	September 10, 1983 Manresa
title	International Master (1957) Grand Master (1978)
Best Elo rating	2480 (January 1976)

Victor Ciocâltea (born January 16, 1932 in Bucharest , † September 10, 1983 in Manresa , Spain ) was a Romanian chess player . In 1957 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master , and in 1978 he became Grand Master .

Life

Victor Ciocâltea won the Romanian championship in 1952, 1959, 1961, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1975 and 1979.

He played at eleven chess Olympiads for Romania from 1956 to 1982 , and won his game against Bobby Fischer in Varna in 1962 . Ciocâltea took part with the Romanian team in the European Team Championships in 1965, 1973 and 1977.

He took part in four zone tournaments, with his best result being shared 5-7. Place in Vrnjačka Banja in 1972. He also achieved 5th to 7th place at the International German Championship in Bochum in 1981 , which Lubomir Kavalek won.

Ciocâltea's last Elo rating was 2440. Before the Elo rating was introduced, it had its highest historical rating of 2601 in December 1964 .

Tournament successes

Alexander Beliavsky , Anatoli Karpow , Victor Ciocâltea and Florin Gheorghiu , Chess Olympiad 1982 in Lucerne

• Dresden 1956: 3rd place
• Sofia 1962: 1st / 2nd space
• Asztalos Memorial 1966: 4th / 5th space
• DSV tournament Zinnowitz 1966: 2nd place
• Reggio Emilia 1966/67: 1st / 2nd space
• Reggio Emilia 1968/69: 1./4. space
• Málaga 1971: 3rd / 4th space
• Asztalos Memorial 1971: 3./4. space
• Bucharest 1971: 3rd / 4th space
• Tunis 1973: 1st place
• Dortmund 1974: 1st / 2nd space
• Bucharest 1978: 2nd place
• Bucharest 1979: 2nd / 4th space
• Satu Mare 1979: 1st place
• Beersheba 1982: 2nd place

Web links

Commons : Victor Ciocâltea  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Replayable chess games by Victor Ciocâltea on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 89 and p. 77.
2. ↑ Victor Ciocâltea's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Victor Ciocâltea's results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Victor Ciocâltea's Elo development on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Victor Ciocâltea's historical Elo numbers on chessmetrics.com (English)
6. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days 1974 from May 3rd to 14th in Dortmund's Westfalenpark