GEORGE Florin

Born April 6, 1944 in Bucharest

Tournament Winner mezhdunaronyh Manila (1969), Ourense (1974), Philadelphia (1979, 80), Novi Sad (1979), etc..
Grandmaster since 1965, Mr..

Professional rating on March 1 - 2433
FIDE rating of 1 April 2001. - 2478

Romania for a long time did not belong to a chess countries. It was astonishing ascent of youth chess Olympus messenger from Bucharest, seventeen Florin Gheorghiu. Perhaps not surprised, only Koreans Florina - he has won in 16 adult national championship! Mindful of the successes of the same Parma, many thought that George in the very near future, expect new triumphs, right up to the bidders. However long it took ten years before Florin made in his first inter-zonal. During this time, Georgiou was able, by and large, 'light up' only once, in perfect style by winning over the Fischer at the Olympiad in 1966 in Havana.

It reached its peak in the late seventies. It was in those years Florin find the optimal balance between strategic and tactical ideas embodied. The game had become tougher and more professional. At the interzonal tournament in Riga, he comes to the status of a chess player, who can 'shoot'. Throughout the distance Georgiou was in the leading group. Fatal to him was the party with one of the outsiders. Having excellent attacking positions, Florin suddenly yawned figure. In the last round he had to win with black Polugaevkogo to catch for the division of the emergent space. This ultra-task proved too much for George: In the eighties he wins a few fairly good circular tournaments, but with dreams of pretendentstve first Romanian grandmaster parted forever. Many Western journalists and chess players believe that George never failed to fully realize its great potential. What is the reason? On this question, perhaps, be able to answer only the Florin.