Mircea-Emilian Pârligras (born 28 December 1980) is a Romanian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

grandmaster and a two-time Romanian Chess Champion. As of November 2011, his

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is 2650, making him the 103rd player in the world. In 2007 he tied for 2nd–7th with

Kiril Georgiev Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev ( bg, Кирил Димитров Георгиев; born 28 November 1965 in Petrich) is a Bulgarian and Macedonian chess grandmaster, and seven-time Bulgarian Chess Champion. Chess career Georgiev first caught the ...

Dimitrios Mastrovasilis Dimitrios Mastrovasilis ( gr, Δημήτριος Μαστροβασίλης; born 12 June 1983) is a Greek chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2004 and the FIDE World Cup in 2017. Career Mastrovasilis took ...

Vadim Malakhatko Vadim Malakhatko ( uk, Вадим Малахатько; 22 March 1977 – 5 June 2023) was a Ukrainian (until 2007) and Belgian (from 2007) chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001 World Team Ches ...

Hristos Banikas Hristodoulos Banikas ( gr, Χριστόδουλος Μπανίκας; born 20 May 1978) is a Greek chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster from Salonica. Chess career Banikas won the 1990 Greek U-12 championship, the 1993 Greek U-16 championshi ...

and Dmitry Svetushkin in the Acropolis International Chess Tournament. In 2010, tied for 1st–6th with Yuriy Kryvoruchko,

Gabriel Sargissian Gabriel Eduardi Sargissian ( hy, Գաբրիել Էդուարդի Սարգսյան, ''Gabriel Eduardi Sargsyan''; born 3 September 1983) is an Armenian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Armenian team at the Chess Olympi ...

, Sergey Volkov, Bela Khotenashvili and Vladislav Borovikov in 2nd International Chess Tournament in

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. In 2011, he tied for 2nd–4th with

Borki Predojević Borki Predojević ( sr-cyrl, Борки Предојевић; born 6 April 1987 in Teslić) is a Bosnian chess grandmaster, the youngest ever from his country. He is the No. 1 ranked player of Bosnia and Herzegovina as of February 2021. Early ...

and

Hrant Melkumyan Hrant Melkumyan ( hy, Հրանտ Մելքումյան; born April 30, 1989, in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and European Blitz Champion in 2011. Chess career He won the international Internet championship organized by the ICC ches ...

in 41st International Bosna Tournament in

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. He advanced through the 3rd round of the Khanty-Mansiysk 2011 World Cup after knocking out higher rated players such as Yu Yangyi and Zoltán Almási. He was knocked out by

Peter Heine Nielsen Peter Heine Nielsen (born 24 May 1973) is a Danish chess trainer and player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. He coached world champions Vishwanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen winning World Championships in 2007, 2008, 20 ...

after the rapid tiebreaks. He played for Romania in the

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s of 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.

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