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Cristian Chirila

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Title:
  • Grandmaster
Rating:
  • 2561
Federation:
  • Romania
Age:
  • 28
Bio:
  • Cristian is a four time Romanian Junior Championship winner. In April of 2015, Cristian won the World Youth Championship for 16 and under. In 2010 he received a full-ride scholarship to the University of Texas in Dallas and would go on to win the Millionaire Chess Open in the under 2550 rating group. Chirila was also a part of Fabiano Caruana’s team that won the 2018 Candidates Tournament and followed him to the World Chess Championship match against Magnus Carlsen in London in November 2018. Chirila streams on twitch.tv on the channel “chesschilla” and he plays on chess.com under the pseudonym “TheCount.”