Viorel Iordăchescu
Viorel Iordăchescu is a Moldovan chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999.
Iordăchescu competed in the FIDE World Championship in 2000 and 2004. In 2002, he finished third in the Corus Tournament C group in Wijk aan Zee. He tied for 1st–6th places with Reiner Odendahl, Erwin l'Ami, Daniël Stellwagen, Susanto Megaranto and Friso Nijboer at HZ Open in 2005. Iordăchescu won the 2006/07 Reggio Emilia tournament.
In 2009 he tied for 2nd–4th with Alexey Korotylev and Sergei Tiviakov at the Moscow Open and won the 13th Open International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee on tiebreak over Vitaly Kunin, Abhijeet Gupta and Gerald Hertneck. In 2010, Iordăchescu tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Hrant Melkumyan, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Gadir Guseinov, David Arutinian, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Tornike Sanikidze in the 12th Dubai Open. The next year, he took part in the FIDE World Cup, where he was eliminated in the first round by Sébastien Feller. In 2012 Iordăchescu won the Nakhchivan Open edging out Sergei Zhigalko and Eltaj Safarli on tiebreak score. Iordăchescu competed in the FIDE World Cup 2015, losing in round one to Yu Yangyi. In the same year, he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer. In 2016 he won the Moldovan Chess Championship.
Iordăchescu played for the Moldovan team in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016 and 2018.
