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IMIrina Bulmaga

ROU Born 1993 (Age ≈33) Female
FIDE ID
13903063

About Irina Bulmaga

Irina Bulmaga grew up in Chisinau and won repeated Moldovan girls' championships before taking the senior women's title in 2007 and 2008. She began representing Romania in 2009, continuing to collect junior titles in classical, rapid and blitz chess. Show more

Irina Bulmaga grew up in Chisinau and won repeated Moldovan girls' championships before taking the senior women's title in 2007 and 2008. She began representing Romania in 2009, continuing to collect junior titles in classical, rapid and blitz chess. She became a woman grandmaster in 2012 and an international master in 2013. At the 2014 Olympiad she won an individual bronze medal. Her interests extend to chess problem solving, in which she became European women's champion in 2015. She won Romania's classical women's championship in 2018 and the women's Capablanca Memorial in 2022. In 2025 she finished second at the European Women's Championship.

FIDE ratings

2367.0

Classical

Published FIDE

2351

Rapid

Published FIDE

2290

Blitz

Published FIDE

Official classical ranks

World rank
#2325
National rank · ROU
#28
Women’s world rank
#77

Active players · Nov 2026 FIDE list ⓘ

FIDE rating history

Highest recorded rating
2453 Feb 2020
Recorded years
2004–2026
Archived games
2306

Based on available monthly lists and saved games.

FIDE rating history

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FIDE tournaments

All tournament results

Available Games

Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-10 (UTC).

Online games are identified from known tournament names, playing sites and PGN mode. Other games are listed as OTB (over-the-board).

# Date Event Site Round White Black Result Moves View
1101 2021-02-20 Bunratty 2021 Online chess.com INT 5 Irina Bulmaga Fiona Steil-Antoni 1-0 38 Open
1102 2021-02-16 Gran Canaria Online Blitz lichess.org INT 9 Irina Bulmaga Luis Mansilla Tolosa 1-0 31 Open
1103 2021-02-16 Gran Canaria Online Blitz lichess.org INT 7 Irina Bulmaga Diego Moreno Diepa 0-1 69 Open
1104 2021-02-16 Gran Canaria Online Blitz lichess.org INT 6 Daniel Mamani Beltran Irina Bulmaga 0-1 31 Open
1105 2021-02-16 Gran Canaria Online Blitz lichess.org INT 5 Irina Bulmaga Agustin Fernandez Manrique 0-1 42 Open
1106 2021-02-16 Gran Canaria Online Blitz lichess.org INT 4 Irina Bulmaga Diego Alexander Reyes Zavaleta 1-0 52 Open
1107 2021-02-16 Gran Canaria Online Blitz lichess.org INT 3 Benny Aizenberg Irina Bulmaga 1-0 63 Open
1108 2021-02-16 Gran Canaria Online Blitz lichess.org INT 2 Irina Bulmaga Miguel Sismeiro 1/2-1/2 71 Open
1109 2021-02-16 Gran Canaria Online Blitz lichess.org INT 1 Allahverdi Hamidov Irina Bulmaga 0-1 56 Open
1110 2021-02-16 Gran Canaria Online Blitz lichess.org INT 11 Irina Bulmaga Jinela de Cari Rodriguez Rivero 1-0 44 Open
1111 2021-02-16 Gran Canaria Online Blitz lichess.org INT 10 Xulio Del Prado Rodriguez Irina Bulmaga 1-0 77 Open
1112 2021-02-07 Ville d'Orsay On/L Blitz Europe-Echecs INT 9 Irina Bulmaga Benjamin Auder 1-0 36 Open
1113 2021-02-07 Ville d'Orsay On/L Blitz Europe-Echecs INT 8 Alexander Sharikov Irina Bulmaga 1-0 33 Open
1114 2021-02-07 Ville d'Orsay On/L Blitz Europe-Echecs INT 7 Irina Bulmaga Parham Maghsoodloo 0-1 50 Open
1115 2021-02-07 Ville d'Orsay On/L Blitz Europe-Echecs INT 6 Clement Kuhn Irina Bulmaga 1/2-1/2 82 Open
1116 2021-02-07 Ville d'Orsay On/L Blitz Europe-Echecs INT 5 Irina Bulmaga Vladislav Efremov 1-0 59 Open
1117 2021-02-07 Ville d'Orsay On/L Blitz Europe-Echecs INT 4 Marc Schaub Irina Bulmaga 0-1 46 Open
1118 2021-02-07 Ville d'Orsay On/L Blitz Europe-Echecs INT 3 Irina Bulmaga Sarah El Barbry 1-0 40 Open
1119 2021-02-07 Ville d'Orsay On/L Blitz Europe-Echecs INT 2 Irina Bulmaga Alexandre Casas 0-1 55 Open
1120 2021-02-07 Ville d'Orsay On/L Blitz Europe-Echecs INT 1 Unidentified player Irina Bulmaga 0-1 33 Open
1121 2021-02-07 Ville d'Orsay On/L Blitz Europe-Echecs INT 10 Willian Henrique Hille Irina Bulmaga 1-0 71 Open
1122 2021-02-02 Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb chess.com INT 9 Irina Bulmaga Sergei Ljukin 1-0 38 Open
1123 2021-02-02 Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb chess.com INT 8 Irina Bulmaga Anastasiya Geller 0-1 104 Open
1124 2021-02-02 Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb chess.com INT 7 Evgeny Postny Irina Bulmaga 1-0 41 Open
1125 2021-02-02 Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb chess.com INT 6 Irina Bulmaga Polina Gutkovich 1-0 23 Open
1126 2021-02-02 Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb chess.com INT 5 Frederik Svane Irina Bulmaga 1-0 65 Open
1127 2021-02-02 Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb chess.com INT 4 Irina Bulmaga Peter Svidler 1-0 31 Open
1128 2021-02-02 Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb chess.com INT 3 Irina Bulmaga Boris Abrashkin 1-0 36 Open
1129 2021-02-02 Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb chess.com INT 2 Alexandr Fier Irina Bulmaga 1-0 117 Open
1130 2021-02-02 Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb chess.com INT 1 Vladimir Bugayev Irina Bulmaga 0-1 57 Open
1131 2021-02-02 Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb chess.com INT 11 Pa Iniyan Irina Bulmaga 0-1 45 Open
1132 2021-02-02 Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb chess.com INT 10 Armin Kekic Irina Bulmaga 0-1 45 Open
1133 2021-01-26 Titled Tuesday 26th Jan chess.com INT 9 Dmitry Kryakvin Irina Bulmaga 1-0 32 Open
1134 2021-01-26 Titled Tuesday 26th Jan chess.com INT 8 Irina Bulmaga Veronika Shubenkova 1-0 45 Open
1135 2021-01-26 Titled Tuesday 26th Jan chess.com INT 7 Irina Bulmaga Sharma Isha 1-0 54 Open
1136 2021-01-26 Titled Tuesday 26th Jan chess.com INT 6 Claudiu-Cristian Dobre Irina Bulmaga 0-1 47 Open
1137 2021-01-26 Titled Tuesday 26th Jan chess.com INT 4 Alex Cuevas Irina Bulmaga 1-0 22 Open
1138 2021-01-26 Titled Tuesday 26th Jan chess.com INT 3 Irina Bulmaga Julian Estrada Nieto 0-1 27 Open
1139 2021-01-26 Titled Tuesday 26th Jan chess.com INT 2 Giga Quparadze Irina Bulmaga 1-0 25 Open
1140 2021-01-26 Titled Tuesday 26th Jan chess.com INT 1 Irina Bulmaga Maksim Omariev 1-0 43 Open
1141 2021-01-26 Titled Tuesday 26th Jan chess.com INT 11 Jonathan Dourerassou Irina Bulmaga 1-0 59 Open
1142 2021-01-26 Titled Tuesday 26th Jan chess.com INT 10 Irina Bulmaga Alexey Lizlov 1-0 31 Open
1143 2021-01-12 Titled Tuesday 12th Jan chess.com INT 9 Muhammad Lutfi Ali Irina Bulmaga 1-0 31 Open
1144 2021-01-12 Titled Tuesday 12th Jan chess.com INT 8 Irina Bulmaga Ori Kobo 1-0 62 Open
1145 2021-01-12 Titled Tuesday 12th Jan chess.com INT 7 Volkan Sevgi Irina Bulmaga 0-1 43 Open
1146 2021-01-12 Titled Tuesday 12th Jan chess.com INT 6 Irina Bulmaga Enrique Butti 1-0 37 Open
1147 2021-01-12 Titled Tuesday 12th Jan chess.com INT 5 Irina Bulmaga Richard Bethke 1-0 41 Open
1148 2021-01-12 Titled Tuesday 12th Jan chess.com INT 4 Olexandr Bortnyk Irina Bulmaga 1-0 45 Open
1149 2021-01-12 Titled Tuesday 12th Jan chess.com INT 3 Irina Bulmaga Abhijeet Gupta 0-1 43 Open
1150 2021-01-12 Titled Tuesday 12th Jan chess.com INT 2 Kirill Shevchenko Irina Bulmaga 0-1 73 Open