GMLiviu-Dieter Nisipeanu

Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu was born in Brașov in 1976 and became a grandmaster in 1997. At the 1999 FIDE world championship he defeated Vasyl Ivanchuk and Alexei Shirov on his way to the semifinals, where he lost to eventual champion Alexander Khalifman. He became European champion in Warsaw in 2005, scoring ten points from thirteen games. The following year he played a four-game match against Veselin Topalov and lost 3-1.

Nisipeanu represented Germany from 2014 to 2023 and won the German championship in 2017. He won the Târgu Mureș tournament in 2022. In 2023 he returned to representing Romania.