Vasile, Claudiu-Daniel

Claudiu-Daniel Vasile, a 31-year-old Romanian player, is rated 2210 and sitting in the top 5% of Romanian players, and in the top 4% worldwide. He plays around 19 rated games per year and had 4 career breaks: 20 months (2005–2007), 13 months (2018–2019), 26 months (2019–2022, COVID-19 included) and 20 months (2022–2023). His peak of 2254 was reached at age 20 (Sep 2015); he also reached Romanian #95 in May 2022.

At junior level, he reached World #77 in U10 and #4, #4, #7, #6 and #6 nationally in U20, U18, U16, U14 and U12.