Margareta Teodorescu (13 April 1932 – 22 January 2013) was a

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

player who was awarded the

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of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1985. Born in

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, she won the Romanian Women's Championship in 1959, 1968, 1969 and 1974. Teodorescu played for Romania in the

Women's Chess Olympiad The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ...

s of

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, 1963 and 1974, winning the team silver medals in both 1957 and 1974. She came in 15th in the Women's Candidates Tournament (

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, 1964). Her highest ranking in the FIDE Top Women list appears to be 35–37 in the July 1972 list (Elo 2165).

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Margareta Teodorescu
chess games at 365Chess.com

1932 births 2013 deaths Chess Woman Grandmasters Romanian female chess players Chess players from Bucharest Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century Romanian chess players 20th-century Romanian sportswomen {{Romania-chess-bio-stub Romanian chess players