# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrei-istratescu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:38:37.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrei-istratescu"
name: "Andrei Istrățescu"
slug: "andrei-istratescu"
description: "Andrei Istrățescu 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.\nIstrățescu 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."
tagline: "Romanian and French chess player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andrei_Istr%C4%83%C5%A3escu_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1975-12-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.702127659574468
  historical:           10.27062666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://andreiistratescu.ro"
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    title: "Андрей Істрецеску"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Istr%C4%83%C8%9Bescu"
    title: "Andrei Istrățescu"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Istr%C4%83%C8%9Bescu"
    title: "Andrei Istrățescu"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Istr%C4%83%C8%9Bescu"
    title: "Andrei Istrățescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Andrei Istrăţescu"
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  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrejs_Istrecesku"
    title: "Andrejs Istrecesku"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Istratescu"
    title: "Andrei Istratescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Andrei Istrățescu"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump