GMVictor Bologan

Victor Bologan, also known as Viorel Bologan, was born in Chișinău in 1971. He became a grandmaster in 1991 and graduated from Moscow’s Physical Culture and Sports Institute in 1993. His doctoral research, completed in 1996, examined the preparation of advanced chess players. Bologan won the first two Poikovsky Karpov tournaments in 2000 and 2001. In 2003 he won both the Aeroflot Open and the Dortmund tournament. He added the Canadian Open title in 2005 and shared first place at Sarajevo’s Bosna tournament in 2010. His international team career included repeated Olympiad appearances for Moldova between 1992 and 2014. Bologan has published a collection of his games and opening books covering the Chebanenko Slav, King’s Indian, Rossolimo Sicilian, Catalan and Caro-Kann. He and his wife Margarita have three children.