This time: the black side of the Karlsbad pawn structure

Dorian Rogozenko

• 29 years old – born on August 18, 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."