Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu

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Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu

Full name	Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Country	Romania
Born	August 1, 1976 (1976-08-01) (age 31) Braşov, Romania

Title	Grandmaster


FIDE rating	2684 (No. 39 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating	2707 (October 2005)

Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (born August 1, 1976) is a Romanian chess grandmaster. His peak FIDE rating was 2707 in October 2005, when he was ranked fifteenth in the world, and the highest ranked Romanian player ever. Noted for his risky, almost paradoxical play; he is frequently called a student of Mikhail Tal.

In 1999, Nisipeanu as a clear outsider made it to the semifinals of the FIDE World Chess Championship by beating Vasily Ivanchuk in round 4 and Alexei Shirov in the quarterfinals only to succumb to the eventual champion Alexander Khalifman. Nisipeanu won the European Individual Chess Championship 2005 in Warsaw with 10 points out of 13 games, half a point ahead of runner-up Teimour Radjabov from Azerbaijan.

In April of 2006, Nisipeanu played FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in a four-game match. Topalov won by a score of 3:1. The match was not for any official title.