Viktor Bologan | |
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Bologan in 2013
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Country |
Soviet Union Moldova |
Born |
Chişinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
14 December 1971
Title | Grandmaster |
FIDE rating | 2640 (April 2017) |
Peak rating | 2734 (August 2012) |
Viktor (Viorel) Bologan (born 14 December 1971) is a Moldovan chess grandmaster and chess author.
Bologan won the first two editions of the Karpov Poikovsky Tournament, in 2000 and 2001. He tied for first in the same tournament in 2005 and 2015. In 2003 he won the Aeroflot Open and Dortmund.
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 at the Bozna Open.
Bologan played for Moldova in the Chess Olympiads from 1992-1998 and 2002 and 2014.