Ioan-Cristian Chirila

Ioan-Cristian Chirilă was born in Bucharest in 1991 and won Romanian youth titles in several age groups. He became world under-16 champion in 2007 and a grandmaster in 2009. In 2010 he received a full scholarship to the University of Texas at Dallas. His tournament results included second place at the 2015 Philadelphia Open and victory in the under-2550 group at Millionaire Chess in 2016. In 2018 he won the National Open in Las Vegas and represented Romania at the Batumi Olympiad. He also worked as one of Fabiano Caruana’s seconds for the 2018 world championship match. The two later became cohosts of the C-Squared chess podcast.