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...
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for first place at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow with Baadur Jobava, Victor Bologan and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, finishing third on tiebreak score. Later...
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opening has been employed by a number of strong grandmasters, including Victor Bologan, Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, and Alex Yermolinsky. Yermolinsky...
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his title of Chess960 World Champion over Viswanathan Anand, while Victor Bologan won the Chess960 open tournament. Rybka won the 2007 computer championship...
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Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Gregory Kaidanov, Igor Glek, Alexander Morozevich, Victor Bologan, and Levon Aronian. The use of the KIA was also advocated by the prominent...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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convincing 3½–½ win against the substantially weakened Moldova, which miss Victor Bologan and Viorel Iordăchescu, with only Arjun Erigaisi drawing his game on...
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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...
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1920–1996) Isaac Boleslavsky (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, 1919–1977) Victor Bologan (Moldova, born 1971) Igor Bondarevsky (Russia, 1913–1979) Eero Böök...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Granda (PER), 2679 (AM12) 51. Yuriy Kryvoruchko (UKR), 2678 (E12) 52. Victor Bologan (MDA), 2672 (E12) 53. Alexey Dreev (RUS), 2668 (E12) 54. Sergey...
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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)...
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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...
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Armenian GM, former World Junior Champion and highly rated - December 7 Victor Bologan, Moldovan GM, a winner of the strong Dortmund Sparkassen event - December...
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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...
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Kostenko 147 Lev Zverev 148 Harsha Bharathakoti 149 Arjun Kalyan 150 Victor Bologan 151 Vladimir Burmakin 152 Daniyal Sapenov 153 Mustafokhuja Khusenkhojaev...
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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...
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Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Vadim Milov, Evgeny Bareev, Alexander Motylev, Victor Bologan, Zoltán Almási, Ilya Smirin, Ivan Sokolov, Arkadij Naiditsch, Krishnan...
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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...
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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...
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76) 1 (W 112) 1 (B 106) (W 64) 0 (B 85) 0 (W 73) 10 217½ 223 2586 105 Victor Bologan 2472 ½ (B 33) 1 (W 57) 0 (B 18) ½ (W 76) 0 (B 48) 1 (W 138) 0 (B 64)...
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since the introduction of the knockout format. Alexander Beliavsky, Victor Bologan, Mikhail Gurevich, Curt Hansen, Lembit Oll, Alon Greenfeld, Ilya Smirin...
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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...
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