Andrei Istrăţescu
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| Full name | Andrei Istrăţescu |
| Country |
 Romania  France
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| Born |
3 December 1975 Romania |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating |
2596 (May 2017) (No. 130 on the September 2009 FIDE ratings list) |
| Peak rating | 2655 (June 2013) |
Andrei Istrăţescu (born 3 December 1975 in Romania) is a chess grandmaster (1993) representing France. For the national Romanian team he took part in six Chess Olympiads (1992–1998, 2002, 2006) with a record of 17 wins, 33 draws and 11 losses. He also took part in three European Team Chess Championships (1992, 1999, and 2005) with a record of three wins, 14 draws and two losses. 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.
On the April FIDE list his Elo rating is 2648.
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