IOAN-CRISTIAN CHIRILA (born Jan-06-1991, 34 years old) Romania [what is this?] In 2001, Chirilă won the Romanian youth championship when he was 10 years old. He repeated this achievement the following year in the Romanian under 12 championship. Chirilă won two more Romanian youth championships, in 2006 and 2009. He participated in the European Youth Team Championship, winning two medals for individual results: gold (2008, on the first board) and silver (2006, on the second board). In 2007, Chirilă became world youth champion in the U-16 age group. In 2010 he was awarded a full ride scholarship at the University of Texas at Dallas. In April 2015, Chirilă finished runner-up to Yuniesky Quezada in the Philadelphia Open.2 In 2016 Chirilă won the Millionaire Chess Open in the U-2550 rating group. In June 2018 he won the National Open tournament in Las Vegas, US. This success earned Chirilă his first magazine cover for Chess Life, one of the major American chess magazines. In September–October he was part of the Romanian team at the 43rd Chess Olympiad. Chirilă served as one of the seconds of Fabiano Caruana during the 2018 World Chess Championship match. (1) https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast... (2017 podcast interview with Ben Johnson of Perpetual Chess). Wikipedia article: Ioan-Cristian Chirilă Last updated: 2022-06-19 17:07:12

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page 1 of 17; games 1-25 of 415  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. I Chirila vs I Turcu   1-0 42 1999 ROM-ch U18 B56 Sicilian 2. I Chirila vs I Toader   0-1 38 2000 ROM-ch sf B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen 3. I Chirila vs R Norri   1-0 17 2001 EYCC B10 C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange 4. A Pavlidis vs I Chirila   0-1 50 2001 EYCC B10 D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 5. I Chirila vs V Lilov   ½-½ 77 2001 EYCC B10 B32 Sicilian 6. V Doibani vs I Chirila   0-1 40 2001 EYCC B10 C47 Four Knights 7. M Matlakov vs I Chirila   1-0 54 2001 EYCC B10 A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack 8. I Chirila vs V Onyshchuk   0-1 48 2001 EYCC B10 B23 Sicilian, Closed 9. M Roganovic vs I Chirila   0-1 43 2001 EYCC B10 C42 Petrov Defense 10. I Chirila vs A Sartena   1-0 37 2001 EYCC B10 B56 Sicilian 11. I Chirila vs P Kruglyakov   ½-½ 22 2001 EYCC B10 B32 Sicilian 12. L Aldea vs I Chirila   0-1 69 2002 Bucharest Winter Cup B42 Sicilian, Kan 13. I Chirila vs C Nanu   0-1 55 2002 Bucharest Winter Cup E54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System 14. I Chirila vs P Potapov   0-1 66 2004 Eskisehir EU fest-A 3rd B32 Sicilian 15. I Chirila vs P Potapov   ½-½ 30 2004 EU-ch U14 B30 Sicilian 16. I Chirila vs G Margvelashvili   0-1 24 2004 EU-ch U14 B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 17. Y Borel vs I Chirila   1-0 43 2005 Wch U14 A07 King's Indian Attack 18. I Chirila vs K Wagih-Abdessalem   ½-½ 41 2005 Wch U14 B32 Sicilian 19. J Ikeda vs I Chirila   0-1 87 2005 Wch U14 D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 20. I Chirila vs M Ly   1-0 39 2005 Wch U14 B01 Scandinavian 21. R Pereira vs I Chirila   0-1 39 2005 Wch U14 B42 Sicilian, Kan 22. I Chirila vs D Benidze   1-0 26 2005 Wch U14 B94 Sicilian, Najdorf 23. Le Quang Liem vs I Chirila   1-0 53 2005 Wch U14 D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 24. I Chirila vs R Hess   ½-½ 37 2005 Wch U14 C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation 25. D Recuero Guerra vs I Chirila   0-1 62 2005 Wch U14 B41 Sicilian, Kan  page 1 of 17; games 1-25 of 415

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Nov-13-09    Tabanus: GM Ioan-Cristian Chirila, Romania, born 27 January 1991. Now rated 2510, http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?... World U16 champion 2007. IM in 2008, GM in 2009. Shared 3rd in the Romanian Ch 2009. Placed 10th in the European U18 Ch 2009. Biography: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioan-C... (in Polish) Picture: http://www.sahcraiova.ro/img/comuni... Interview: http://interviews.chessdom.com/ioan... May-16-17    BIDMONFA: Ioan-Cristian Chirila CHIRILA, Ioan C. http://www.bidmonfa.com/chirila_ioa... _ Feb-14-19    Penguincw: GM Cristian Chirila (I assume this is him) will be coaching MU's first ever competitive chess team. https://www.themaneater.com/stories... Feb-16-19    Penguincw: Again, I assume it's the correct Chirila? https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/n... It definitely sounds like the Chirila in the above post. Jun-19-22    Messiah: He is an extremely good commentator. Jun-19-22    MissScarlett: I like the Saint Louis line-up but can’t drag myself away from Jan and Judit.

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