| Victor Bologan | |
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 Bologan in 2013 | |
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| Born | 14 December 1971 Chişinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | Not Died |
| Title | Grandmaster (1991) |
| FIDE rating | 2594 (March 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2734 (August 2012) |
| Peak ranking | No. 18 (April 2005) |
Victor (Viorel) Bologan [1] (born 14 December 1971) is a Moldovan chess player and author. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1991.
Bologan won the first two editions of the Poikovsky Karpov International Tournament, in 2000 and 2001. [2] He tied for first in the same tournament in 2005 [3] and 2015. [4] In 2003 he won the Aeroflot Open and the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting ahead of some of the world's top players. [5]
He won the 2005 Canadian Open Chess Championship. Bologan tied for first place in the 2006 Aeroflot Open, finishing second on tiebreak. In May 2010, he tied for first with Wang Hao and Zahar Efimenko at the Bosna International open in Sarajevo. [6]
Bologan played for Moldova in the Chess Olympiad in 1992 - 1998 and 2002 - 2014. [7]
Bologan graduated from the Moscow Physical Culture and Sports Institute in 1993. In 1996, he successfully defended a doctoral thesis on the structure of preparation of high level chess players at the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism. [8] [9]
He is married to Margarita Bologan with whom he has three children. Bologan is currently living in Doha, Qatar. 2 of his children go to Hamilton international school, 1 in grade 10 and the other in grade 2.
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