Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu

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Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (born August 1, 1976) is a Romanian chess grandmaster. In the October 2006 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2690, making him the top Romanian player and number twenty-two in the world. His peak FIDE rating was 2707 in October 2005, when he was ranked fifteen in the world. Noted for his risky, almost paradoxical play; he is frequently called a student of Mikhail Tal.

In 1999, Nisipeanu as a clear outsider made it to the semifinals of the FIDE World Chess Championship by beating Vasily Ivanchuk in round 4 and Alexei Shirov in the quarterfinals only to succumb to the eventual champion Alexander Khalifman. Nisipeanu won the European Individual Championship 2005 in Warsaw with 10 points out of 13 games, half a point ahead of runner-up Teimour Radjabov from Azerbaijan.

In April of 2006, Nisipeanu played FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in a four-game match. Topalov won by a score of 3:1. The match was not for any official title.

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• Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu download 193 of his games in pgn format.
• Play through the Nisipeanu vs. Topalov games
• Nisipeanu's FIDE card
• Nisipeanu's chess games
• Nisipeanu the European Chess Champion