IMIrina 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. 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.