Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu – a modern-day Tal?

Dorian writes: "Tonight, as usual, I have my on-line lecture. I thought that the following subject might be quite attractive, especially for German public, given the fact that Dieter is half German. In fact he is probably the strongest half German in the country, with a rating of 2678, which makes him number 25 in the current Elo list. Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu is less well known to the general public, compared with some of the names behind him on the top 100 list, such as for instance Khalifman (no. 26), Smirin (no. 29), Van Wely (no. 41) or Radjabov (no.45). People mostly connect his name with the success in the World Championship in Las Vegas (1999), when he eliminated Ivanchuk and Shirov.

This year has been especially successful for Nisipeanu, and in my lecture I want to show you why, in my opinion, he is one of the most imaginative and creative modern players. In many of his games there is total chaos on the board, and some of them can be compared with Tal's greatest achievements. During my on-line lecture you will see that many games of Nisipeanu are perfectly suited to entertain the audience and show how beautiful chess can be."

Dorian Rogozenko

• 30 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.

• International Master title in 1992, International Grandmaster title in 1996 (first GM norm in 1992, last norm in 1995).

  

• 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.

• Participant of the FIDE World Championship, Moscow 2001.

  

• 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.

• In 1999 Rogozenko moved to Bucharest, Romania, where he now lives.

  

• Hobbies: "my daughter Teodora Nana and foreign languages. Speak several of them."