Ivan Schitco (born 4 January 2003) is a Moldovan

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player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM, 2022).

Biography

Schitco is one of the best young Moldovan chess players. He participated in

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s and

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s.He trained with the international master Boris Itkis and regularly attended the sessions of the Chess Federation Performance Center under the guidance of the distinguished coach Grandmaster Dmitrii Svetuskin. He got the bronze in 2012 at the World School Chess Championship. In November 2017, he ranked first at the Botvinnic Cup International Tournament in Moscow (Russia), where the strongest juniors from 11 countries participated, including 8 chess players with international titles. In 2019 Ivan Schitco won European School Chess Championship in U17 age group. Schitco played for Moldova in the

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: * In 2022, at first board in the

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(+2, =7, -1). He was leading Moldova to a historical 6th place and drawing World Chess Champion

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in the same tournament. Schitco played for Moldova in the

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: * In 2019, at third board in the 22nd European Team Chess Championship in

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(+3, =1, -3). In 2019, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title and received the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title three years later. Schitco qualified for the

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, where, ranked 150th, he defeated 107th-seed

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in the first round, and 22nd-seed

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in the second round. As of 2022, Schitco was a student and chess team member at

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