Mircea-Emilian Pârligras (born December 28, 1980) is a Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n chess Grandmaster and Romanian Champion

Romanian Chess Championship

The Romanian Chess Championship became a yearly even in 1946, and was held irregularly earlier. A series of national eliminating contests are played to select a 20-player field for the men's final...

 in 2001. As of November 2011, his FIDE rating is 2650, making him the 103rd player in the world.

In 2007 he tied for 2nd-7th with Kiril Georgiev

Kiril Georgiev

Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev is a Bulgarian chess master and three times the national champion. He should not be confused with fellow Bulgarian chess player Krum Georgiev....

, Dimitrios Mastrovasilis

Dimitrios Mastrovasilis

Dimitrios Mastrovasilis is a Greek chess Grandmaster .In 2004 he tied for 1st-2nd with Kiril Georgiev at Topola. In 2007 he tied for 2nd-7th with Kiril Georgiev, Vadim Malakhatko, Mircea Parligras, Hristos Banikas and Dmitry Svetushkin in the Acropolis International Chess Tournament.He played for...

, Vadim Malakhatko

Vadim Malakhatko

Vadim Malakhatko is a Ukrainian–Belgian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001 World Team Chess Championship...

, Hristos Banikas

Hristos Banikas

Hristodoulos Banikas is a distinguished Greek chess player. He is a resident of Salonica.-Achievements in chess :...

 and Dmitry Svetushkin

Dmitry Svetushkin

Dmitry Svetushkin is a Moldovan chess grandmaster .He tied for 1st-3rd with Johan Hellsten and Marcin Szymanski in the Ikaros Chess Festival 2003....

 in the Acropolis

Acropolis

Acropolis means "high city" in Greek, literally city on the extremity and is usually translated into English as Citadel . For purposes of defense, early people naturally chose elevated ground to build a new settlement, frequently a hill with precipitous sides...

 International Chess Tournament. In 2010, tied for 1st-6th with Yuriy Kryvoruchko

Yuriy Kryvoruchko

Yuriy Kryvoruchko is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster .He came third in the 2004 European Youth Chess Championship in Ürgüp and in the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship in Yerevan. In 2008 he tied for 1st–8th with Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Sergey Fedorchuk, Konstantin Chernyshov, Andrei...

, Gabriel Sargissian, Sergey Volkov, Bela Khotenashvili and Vladislav Borovikov in 2nd International Chess Tournament in Rethymno

Rethymno

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. In 2011, he tied for 2nd-4th with Borki Predojević

Borki Predojevic

Borki Predojević is a Bosnian chess Grandmaster and the youngest ever from his homeland.Predojević was European Champion U-12 in 1999 and U-14 in 2001.He won the World U-16 Championship in 2003 and earned the grandmaster title at age 17....

 and Hrant Melkumyan

Hrant Melkumyan

Hrant Melkumyan is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. He won the international Internet championship organized by the ICC chess Internet portal. In 2006, he won the U18 silver medal at the World Youth Chess Championship. In 2009, he tied for 1st-5th with Sergey Volkov, Andrey Rychagov, Andrei...

 in 41st International Bosna Tournament in Sarajevo

Sarajevo

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. He advanced through the 3rd round of the Khanty-Mansiysk 2011 World Cup after knocking out higher rated players such as Yu Yangyi

Yu Yangyi

Yu Yangyi is a top junior chess player, who in October 2009 at the age of 15, became China's 29th Grandmaster.-Tournaments:...

 and Zoltan Almasi

Zoltan Almasi

Zoltán Almási is a Grandmaster of chess from Hungary. He is a seven-time Hungarian Chess Champion, winning in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2008...

. He was knocked out by Peter Heine Nielsen

Peter Heine Nielsen

Peter Heine Nielsen is a Danish chess Grandmaster.-Chess career:Nielsen became an International Grandmaster in 1994. He won the Danish Chess Championship five times: in 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2008. He played for Denmark in seven Chess Olympiads, three times on top board, with an overall...

 after the rapid tiebreaks.

He played for Romania in the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

s of 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.

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