Dumitru Ghizdavu
Number of games in database: 75
Years covered: 1966 to 1977
Last FIDE rating: 2415
Overall record: +23 -23 =29 (50.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (26)      B93 B81 B89 B56 B28  Sicilian Najdorf (13)      B93 B94  King's Pawn Game (5)      C44  French Defense (5)      C11 C01 C04 C03 C07  Sicilian Scheveningen (4)      B81	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (7)      B22 B90 B52 B84 B40  Alekhine's Defense (5)      B02 B03 B05 B04  King's Indian (4)      E90 E69 E94 E60  Ruy Lopez (4)      C65 C64 C91 C84

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Ghizdavu vs Dake, 1975 1-0
   Ghizdavu vs N Padevsky, 1973 1-0

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DUMITRU GHIZDAVU (born 1949) Romania (citizen of United States of America) [what is this?] International Master

page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 75  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Y Stepak vs Ghizdavu   ½-½ 17 1966 Orebro Stud olm fA E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 2. Kolbak vs Ghizdavu   ½-½ 18 1966 Orebro Stud olm fA E16 Queen's Indian 3. Ghizdavu vs A Kapengut   0-1 32 1966 Orebro Stud olm fA C01 French, Exchange 4. Ghizdavu vs I Roebuck   1-0 29 1966 Orebro Stud olm prelim6 C11 French 5. M Schoeneberg vs Ghizdavu   ½-½ 14 1966 Orebro Stud olm fA C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 6. B Dueno vs Ghizdavu   0-1 41 1966 Orebro Stud olm prelim6 C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 7. E Nowak vs Ghizdavu   1-0 36 1966 Orebro Stud olm fA C91 Ruy Lopez, Closed 8. Ghizdavu vs Z Mestrovic   0-1 32 1966 Orebro Stud olm fA B89 Sicilian 9. Ghizdavu vs N Ivanov   1-0 39 1966 Orebro Stud olm fA B94 Sicilian, Najdorf 10. Ghizdavu vs L Day   ½-½ 19 1967 5, Jerusalem Wch jr B06 Robatsch 11. Keene vs Ghizdavu   1-0 35 1967 World Junior Championship A05 Reti Opening 12. Ghizdavu vs Timman   ½-½ 63 1967 Jerusalem YWCH C04 French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line 13. Huebner vs Ghizdavu 0-1 27 1967 Wch U20 C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical 14. Ghizdavu vs V Tukmakov   ½-½ 26 1968 WchT U26 15th qual-A B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack 15. Ghizdavu vs O Troianescu   0-1 40 1968 Bucharest B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 16. Smejkal vs Ghizdavu   1-0 40 1968 WchT U26 15th fin-A A34 English, Symmetrical 17. Ghizdavu vs Szabo   ½-½ 31 1968 Bucharest B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 18. Ghizdavu vs V Tukmakov   ½-½ 20 1968 WchT U26 15th fin-A B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack 19. Ghizdavu vs Ulf Andersson   1-0 27 1969 Netherlands C77 Ruy Lopez 20. Vaganian vs Ghizdavu   1-0 43 1969 EU-ch U20 prel E69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line 21. Ghizdavu vs K Payrhuber   1-0 19 1969 Groningen B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 22. Ribli vs Ghizdavu   1-0 41 1969 Groningen B56 Sicilian 23. Vaganian vs Ghizdavu   ½-½ 49 1969 EU-ch U20 final A D75 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O c5, 8.dxc5 24. Ghizdavu vs M Tratatovici   1-0 24 1970 Romania B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 25. Ghizdavu vs Ljubojevic   0-1 33 1970 Bucharest B28 Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation  page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 75

Feb-26-10    Marmot PFL: Anybody know what happened to him? Strong player who just seemed to disappear. Feb-26-10    siggemannen: He seems to be living in USA, search for his name here: http://arizonascorpionchess.com/200...

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