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29 years old born on August 8, 1973 in Chisinau or Kishinev, Moldova (former Soviet Union). In 1994 Rogozenko graduated from the Sport University in Chisinau and received a diploma as a Sport Teacher.
Dorian first started playing chess at the age of six and first went to chess training (at a chess school) at the age of nine. Later he became the pupil of Moldavia's most famous coach, Vecheslav Chebanenko.
Best FIDE rating on 1.07.1999: 2576.
Multiple junior champion of Moldavia.
Best results: Moldavian Champion 1994, winner of the following international tournaments: Moscow GM tournament 1992, Chemnitz open 1997, Bucharest GM tournament 1998, Eforie open 1998; co-winner: Lvov 1995, Hamburg 1997, 2000.
Several times Champion of Romania with the team RATB; second place in the Netherland Team Competition in year 2001, as a member of Bussum team.
Four times participated in Chess Olympiads: three times for Moldavian team, once for Romanian team (second board) in the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul 2000.
Winner of The Ten Most Important Theoretical Novelties Of The Chess Informant 82.
In 2000 ChessBase released Rogozenko's first opening CD-ROM Sveshnikov Sicilian, in 2002 the second one: The Slav Defence.
Permanent contributor of several international and national chess publications.
Hobbies: "my daughter Teodora Nana and foreign languages. Speak several of them."
To see a list of GM Rogozenko's previous articles do a search for "Rogozenko" in the left navigation column of the ChessBase home page.
