Marius Ceteraş

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Marius Ceteraş (b. April 5, 1973, Alba Iulia, Romania) is a Romanian chess player, and a FIDE Master since 1992. He received 3 International Master norms, one of them unrecognized by FIDE due to a bureaucratically generated error of the Romanian Chess Federation. Best ELO FIDE rating on 01.10.2003: 2427. Current ELO on 01.07.2004: 2425.

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[edit] Early life

He was born in Alba Iulia, a city located in Transylvania. First started playing chess at the age of 5. He studied electrical engineering and he was a PhD Candidate at the Technical University from Cluj Napoca Chess instructor since 1995. He speaks Romanian, English and Portuguese.

[edit] Best results

Romanian Over-The-Board Junior Champion 1992 and 1993
Member of the 1993 Romanian team winners of the Junior Balkan Championship
8th place at 1992 European junior Championship, Sas van Gent, Holland
6th place at 1993 Romanian Over-The-Board Championship
Qualified in Romanian Over-The-Board Championship Final 2002

[edit] Other chess activities

Started to play correspondence chess in 2000
Team captain of Potaissa Turda Chess Club for the 1st edition of ICCF Champions League 2002-2004
National Email Coordinator of Romanian Correspondence Chess Commission since 2003
Member of the Romanian CC team in the 14th Olympiad Final and the 6th Coppa Latina
Columnist at Correspondence Chess News (Internet based magazine) 2002-2003
Chess lessons on the Internet
Regular contributor of the Romanian magazine Gambit
Publisher of an electronic magazine and other correspondence chess e-books
Webmaster of the Romanian correspondence chess site

[edit] Articles

  • Discovering Another Correspondence Chess in the web pages of The Gambiteers Guild
  • New Ideas In The Sicilian Dragon (I) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 46
  • New Ideas In The Sicilian Dragon (II) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 48
  • New Ideas In The Sicilian Dragon (III) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 49
  • New Ideas In The Sicilian Dragon (IV) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 56
  • IN CHE$$ WE TRUST (featuring Olimpiu Urcan) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 66
  • New Ideas In The Sicilian Dragon (V) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 67
  • Interview with Vladimir Salceanu (featuring Eugen Demian) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 71
  • Annotations In Chess (I) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 71
  • Annotations In Chess (II) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 74
  • Interview with German Castillo in Correspondence Chess News - issue 77
  • Socks'n'Chess in Correspondence Chess News - issue 80
  • The Paul Diaconescu Memorial (featuring Eugen Demian) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 81
  • Inside ICCF Champions League (I) (featuring Eugen Demian) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 82
  • Interview with Pedro Hegoburu in Correspondence Chess News - issue 83
  • Inside ICCF Champions League (II) (featuring Eugen Demian) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 85
  • Inside ICCF Champions League (III) (featuring Eugen Demian) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 88
  • Strange Theoretical Novelties in Correspondence Chess News - issue 89
  • Hanibal Ante Portas! in Correspondence Chess News - issue 92
  • Rooks In The Ring in Correspondence Chess News - issue 98
  • Your Verdict Please! (I) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 99
  • Your Verdict Please! (II) in Correspondence Chess News - issue 100

[edit] E-books

The game of the year 2003
Romanian Correspondence Chess - 2003 Report