Florin Gheorghiu
Florin Gheorghiu ( born April 6, 1944 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian chess master.
Life
Even as a 13 -year-old Gheorghiu won the Romanian Youth Championship, three years later, in 1960, he won the national championship of adults. A total of nine times (1960, 1962, 1964-1967, 1973, 1977 and 1984 ) brought him the victory in the national championship and he was up in the early 1990s, the leading player in Romania. In 1963 he was in Banja Vrnjačka the first Romanian Junior World Champion. FIDE awarded him the same year the title of International Master in 1965 the title of Grand Master.
Gheorghiu represented his country 1962-1990 fourteen times in chess Olympiads, of which ten times on the first board.
After two unsuccessful attempts in the Zone Tournament (each a 4th place in Vrnjačka Banja in 1967 and Athens 1969) reach him four skills ( 2nd place in Helsinki in 1972, 1st - 2nd place in Vratsa, 1975, 2nd-5th in Warsaw in 1979 and. 1st-2nd place in Budapest in 1982 ) to the next stage in the World Cup qualification: He played in the interzonal tournaments Petrópolis 1973 ( 14 ), in Manila 1976 ( 10th-13th ), in Riga 1979 ( 5.- 6. . ) and Moscow in 1982 ( 12 ).
For more tournament successes:
- Hastings 1964/65: 2 / 3 Place with Gligorić behind Paul Keres
- Belgrade 1965: 1 / 2 Place with Matulovic
- Bucharest 1966: 2nd place behind Korchnoi
- Orense 1973: 1st Place
- Manila 1974: 4/5 space
- Torremolinos 1974: 1 / 2 Place with Torre
- Novi Sad 1979: 1st Place
- Biel 1982: 1 / 2 Place with Nunn
He won the U.S. Open three times in a row: 1979, 1980 ( with John Fedorowicz ) and 1981 ( with Larry Christiansen ).
In his home country he was very popular: A 1978 book published Secretele marilor Maestri by Constantin Ştefaniu puts him on a par with Robert James Fischer and Anatoli Karpov Jewgenjewitsch. A collection of his best games Gheorghiu published in 1980 under the title Particle Alese.
Gheorghiu also applies in addition to Ulf Andersson and Mihai Suba as a pioneer and expert in the hedgehog position.
His current Elo rating is 2375 (as of January 2008). His best Historical Elo rating was 2688 in May 1981. His club in Romania is CS Progresul Bucharest.