Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu

Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Full name	Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Country	Romania
Born	August 1, 1976 (1976-08-01) (age 35) Braşov, Romania
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2638 (No. 118 on the September 2011 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating	2707 (October 2005)

Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (born August 1, 1976) is a Romanian chess grandmaster. His peak FIDE rating was 2707 in October 2005, when he was ranked fifteenth in the world, and the highest ranked Romanian player ever. Noted for his risky, almost paradoxical play; he is frequently called a student of Mikhail Tal.

In 1999, Nisipeanu as a clear outsider made it to the semifinals of the FIDE World Chess Championship by beating Vasily Ivanchuk in round 4 and Alexei Shirov in the quarterfinals only to succumb to the eventual champion Alexander Khalifman. Nisipeanu won the European Individual Chess Championship 2005 in Warsaw with 10 points out of 13 games, half a point ahead of runner-up Teimour Radjabov from Azerbaijan.

In April 2006, Nisipeanu played FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in a four-game match. Topalov won by a score of 3:1. The match was not for any official title.

Notable chess games

• Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu vs Vlastimil Babula, 6th EU Ind. Ch. 2005, Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation (B82), 1-0
• Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu vs Viktor Bologan, TCh-FRA Top 16 2006, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B90), 1-0
• Veselin Topalov vs Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, Mtel Masters 2007, Scandinavian Defense: Gubinsky-Melts Defense (B01), 0-1
• Vassily Ivanchuk vs Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, World Chess Cup 2007, Bogo-Indian Defense: Grunfeld Variation (E11), 0-1

External links

• FIDE rating card for Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
• Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu player profile at ChessGames.com
• OlimpBase
• Nisipeanu the European Chess Champion

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Name	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter
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Date of birth	August 1, 1976
Place of birth	Braşov, Romania
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