Corvin Radovici | |
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Country | Romania |
Born | Călățele, Romania | 19 December 1931
Died | 17 August 2017 | (aged 85)
Title | International Master (1968) |
Peak rating | 2410 (January 1978) |
Corvin Radovici (19 December 1931 – 17 August 2017), was a Romanian chess player, International Master (IM) (1968).
In the 1960s Corvin Radovici was one of the leading Romanian chess players. He was a multiple participant of the Romanian Chess Championship. In 1958, he shared first place in International Chess Tournament in Sofia.[1] In 1961, he ranked third in International Chess Tournament in Bucharest.[2] In 1968, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title.
Corvin Radovici played for Romania in the Chess Olympiads:[3]
Corvin Radovici played for Romania in the European Team Chess Championship:[4]
Later Corvin Radovici became known as a chess coach. He discovered and raised two of the Romanian chess players: Florin Gheorghiu, the first Romanian player who win the title of Grandmaster (GM) and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, the first Romanian chess player who cross the barrier of an Elo coefficient of 2700 and won European Individual Chess Championship in 2005.