Andrei Istrățescu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Andrei Istrățescu

Romanian chess player

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1975

Place of Birth: Romania

Profession: chess player

Nationality: France, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Andrei Istra?escu (born 3 December 1975) is a Romanian chess grandmaster.
He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 1998 and in the FIDE World Cup in 2005 and 2013. Istra?escu has played for the Romanian national team in the Chess Olympiad, the European Team Chess Championship and the Chess Balkaniads.
He represented France from 2011 to 2017.
In 2004 he finished in second place behind Anatoly Karpov in the rapid knockout tournament in Aix en Provence.
Subsequently, a rematch was set up in Bucharest: four classical games and four rapid games.
The final score was 6-2 in favour of Karpov.