Tabanus: GM Marius Manolache, Romania, born 22 April 1973. Now rated 2540, http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?...IM in 2001. GM in 2007. Plays a lot in Spain and France.
Placed 3rd in Vila de Padron Open (Spain) 2004 (= GM norm), 2nd in Abierto Ayuntamiento de Ortigueira (Spain) 2004, 1st in Circuito Gallego (Spain) 2004, 2nd in Galati Open (Romania) 2005, 1st in Bucharest Open 2005, 3rd in Vila de Marin Open (Spain) 2005, 1st in Adolfo Pedrido Memorial 2006, 3rd in Romanian Ch 2006, 2nd in Abierto Cidade das Burgas (Spain) 2007, 1st in Subotita de Craciun 2008, 4th in Romanian Ch 2008, 4th in Werther Schloss-Open (Germany) 2009,
1st in Condom Open A (France) 2009:
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http://iulianceausescu.wordpress.co...
Biography:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius... (in German)
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius... (in Polish)
Pictures:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Guw1gYyybuU/S...
http://iulianceausescu.files.wordpr...
http://www.vados.ro/files_/medium/2...
Highest rated victim (in Chessbase):
[Event "ROM-chT"]
[Site "Eforie Nord"]
[Date "2000.12.22"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Manolache, Marius"]
[Black "Fedorov, Alexei"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2399"]
[BlackElo "2646"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Nf3 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5
Ne7 9.Nd2 c5 10.dxc6 bxc6 11.b4 d5 12.b5 d4 13.Na4 g5 14.Re1 Ng6 15.g3
g4 16.Nc5 h5 17.Ndb3 Nh7 18.Qd2 Re8 19.bxc6 Ne7 20.Nb7 Qc7 21.c5 Nxc6 22.Nd6 Re7 23.h3 a5 24.Qd1 a4 25.Nd2 Ng5 26.h4 d3 27.Bxd3 Nh3+ 28.Kg2 a3 29.Nb3 Nd4 30.Nxd4 exd4 31.Bd2 Qxc5 32.Nxc8 Qxc8 33.Rc1 Qe6 34.Rc5 Qxa2 35.Bc4 Qb2 36.Rb5 Rb8 37.Rxb2 Rxb2 38.Re2 d3 39.Bxd3 a2 40.Qa4 Be5 41.Bc3
Rxe2 42.Bxe2 Bxc3 43.Qxa2 Bd4 44.Qd5 Bb6 45.Bc4 Rc7 46.Qxh5 Rxc4 47.Qxg4+
Kf8 48.Kxh3 1-0