Victor (Viorel) Bologan (born 14 December 1971) is a Moldovan chess player and author. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1991. Bologan...

his title of Chess960 World Champion over Viswanathan Anand, while Victor Bologan won the Chess960 open tournament. Rybka won the 2007 computer championship...

Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Gregory Kaidanov, Igor Glek, Alexander Morozevich, Victor Bologan, and Levon Aronian. The use of the KIA was also advocated by the prominent...

opening has been employed by a number of strong grandmasters, including Victor Bologan, Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, and Alex Yermolinsky. Yermolinsky...

for first place at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow with Baadur Jobava, Victor Bologan and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, finishing third on tiebreak score. Later...

2010-04-30. Harding & Botterill (1977), p. 66 Estrin (1971), p. 67 Bologan, Victor (2014). Bologan's Black Weapons in the Open Games. The Netherlands: New in Chess...

South Korea at the 43rd Chess Olympiad, where he managed a draw against Victor Bologan (who was rated over 300 points higher) in the first round. Lee played...

Linares 1995, round 1, Catalan Opening: General, 1-0. Joel Lautier vs Victor Bologan, Mar-11, Enghien-les-Bains 3rd 1999, round 8, Caro-Kann Defense: Accelerated...

first at Aeroflot, the invitation to Dortmund going to tiebreak winner Victor Bologan. He won the 4th Karpov tournament in Poikovsky on tiebreak with Joel...

Essen 2001, first at Pamplona 2002 (winning a blitz playoff against Victor Bologan after both had finished the main tournament on 3½/6), first with 8/9...

round-robin/final  Levon Aronian (ARM)  Viswanathan Anand (IND) 2–21  Victor Bologan (MDA) N/A N/A N/A Rybka 2008 Open tournament N/A N/A N/A  Hikaru Nakamura (USA)...

Repertoire 1A: 1.d4 The Catalan. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-88-0. Bologan, Victor (2012). The Powerful Catalan. New in Chess. ISBN 978-90-5691-401-1...

1920–1996) Isaac Boleslavsky (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, 1919–1977) Victor Bologan (Moldova, born 1971) Igor Bondarevsky (Russia, 1913–1979) Eero Böök...

convincing 3½–½ win against the substantially weakened Moldova, which miss Victor Bologan and Viorel Iordăchescu, with only Arjun Erigaisi drawing his game on...

Topalov (Bulgaria) 2735 1 ½ ½ Does not appear 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 7½ 48.50 2757 5  Victor Bologan (Moldova) 2679 ½ 0 ½ 0 Does not appear ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 0 7½ 46.75 2761...

2585 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ Does not appear ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 7 40.75 2631 8  GM Victor Bologan (Moldova) 2658 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ Does not appear 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 7 40.00 2625...

Granda (PER), 2679 (AM12) 51.   Yuriy Kryvoruchko (UKR), 2678 (E12) 52.   Victor Bologan (MDA), 2672 (E12) 53.   Alexey Dreev (RUS), 2668 (E12) 54.   Sergey...

Championship. In 2005, he participated in the Chess World Cup but lost to Victor Bologan in the first round. Carlos Matamoros Franco is the winner of many international...

31st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 31 – August 10, 2003) GM Victor Bologan qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2003. IM Yuri Boidman (2407)...

Man International tournament. In May 2010, he tied for 1st–2nd with Victor Bologan in the 40th Bosna International Tournament in Sarajevo. At the 39th...

Chris Chase, "Chess Notes", The Boston Globe, 23 June 2015, page B5. Victor Bologan, The Rossolimo Sicilian: A Powerful Anti-Sicilian that Avoids Tons of...

Openings 2. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-6099-7. Bologan, Victor (2008). The Chebanenko Slav according to Bologan: a popular chess opening explained by a top...

Armenian GM, former World Junior Champion and highly rated - December 7 Victor Bologan, Moldovan GM, a winner of the strong Dortmund Sparkassen event - December...

Tournament, a round-robin tournament, in Poikovsky, Russia on tiebreak over Victor Bologan, after they both finished on 6/9 points. In August 2016, Korobov won...

the Chess World Cup 2011, but was eliminated in the first round by Victor Bologan. In 2013 he won the Riga Technical University Open. In 2021 he won against...

Kostenko 147 Lev Zverev 148 Harsha Bharathakoti 149 Arjun Kalyan 150 Victor Bologan 151 Vladimir Burmakin 152 Daniyal Sapenov 153 Mustafokhuja Khusenkhojaev...

since the introduction of the knockout format. Alexander Beliavsky, Victor Bologan, Mikhail Gurevich, Curt Hansen, Lembit Oll, Alon Greenfeld, Ilya Smirin...

Dolmatov in round one by 1.5-0.5 to advance. In round two, he defeated Victor Bologan by 2.5-1.5 in playoffs. He was knocked out in round three by Vladimir...

equal. Jobava, Karjakin (both — 12 points out of 18), Radjabov, Jakovenko, Bologan and Timofeev (all — 11½ out of 18) qualified as the winners of 40-players...

Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Vadim Milov, Evgeny Bareev, Alexander Motylev, Victor Bologan, Zoltán Almási, Ilya Smirin, Ivan Sokolov, Arkadij Naiditsch, Krishnan...