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Alfil Cup 2026 - U1800

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23 players participated in this 6-round tournament, held from 07 Mar 2026 to 08 Mar 2026 in Pitesti, Romania. Top 10 Elo average was 1716, and top seed was Ciprian-Dumitru Beldiman (🇷🇴 ROU, 1792).

Viorel Serban (🇷🇴 ROU, 1726) won with 5.0/6, ahead of Ciprian-Dumitru Beldiman (5.0) and Teodor-Nicolas Haimana (4.0). Serban shared the lead from round 4, winning on tie-break.

The biggest upset came in round 1: Viorel Andrei Balan (1464) beat Darius-Ionut Nistor (1697), a +233-point gap.

Location
🇷🇴Pitesti, Romania
Dates
07 Mar 2026 → 08 Mar 2026
Time control
Standard: 30 minutes for game with 30 seconds increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 6 rounds
Top seed
🇷🇴Ciprian-Dumitru Beldiman1792
Avg top 10
1,716
Participants
23
Federations · 1 represented
🇷🇴Romania×23
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 6 rounds

Tight race until R6; 2 players tied at 5.0/6, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
8
4
1
2
4
2
1.534.56R1R2R3R4R5R6
Beldiman5Serban5Nitu4Haimana4Popescu4Popescu4
R6 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 5.0/6. Serban takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (18.5).

R2–R6 · WIN STREAK

Ciprian-Dumitru Beldiman won 5 in a row (R2–R6).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Ciprian-Dumitru Beldiman*—
1
0
2Viorel Serban—*
½
1
3Ionel-Casian Nitu
0
½
*
½
4Teodor-Nicolas Haimana
1
0
½
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Serban, Viorel1726ROU+16B=5N+7B+12N=4B+3N5.018.521.017.001946+31.2
2Beldiman, Ciprian-Dumitru1792ROU−3B+17N+15B+8N+5B+4N5.018.020.016.001860+17.2
3Haimana, Teodor-Nicolas1641ROU+2N+23B=4B=5N+6N−1B4.022.022.013.001845+66.8
4Nitu, Ionel-Casian1711ROU+8N+14B=3N+6B=1N−2B4.021.524.014.501768+9.4
5Popescu, Patrick1664ROU+19N=1B+13N=3B−2N+7B4.020.522.012.501708+4.8
6Popescu, Erick1702ROU+17B+21N+12B−4N−3B+9N4.016.517.09.001735+10.8
7Andrei, Marius-Andrei1675ROU=13N+9B−1N+15B+19B−5N3.518.019.59.001628-9.6
8Ivascu, Petru1543ROU−4B+16N+21B−2B=10N+19N3.516.517.06.251608+12.4
9Nanu, Alexandra-Gabriela1675ROU=15B−7N+23N+13B+11N−6B3.516.516.57.751644-7.6
10Nistor, Darius-Ionut1697ROU−14N−13B+17N+22B=8B+12N3.514.014.57.251668-5.6
11Chelu, Tudor-Iulian1675ROU+22B−12N+14B=19N−9B+18N3.512.513.05.751632-6.8
12Cioboata, Luca-Stefan1776ROU+18N+11B−6N−1B+16N−10B3.018.520.58.001667-31.9
13Doncu Petcu, Adriana Aylin0ROU=7B+10N−5B−9N=14B+20N3.017.018.58.0016230.0
14Balan, Viorel Andrei1464ROU+10B−4N−11N=18B=13N=16B2.516.518.57.251585+30.8
15Achim, Dorian1444ROU=9N+20B−2N−7N=18B=17N2.516.017.55.251585+38.8
16Belegan, Albert-Nicola-Matei1583ROU−1N−8B+20N+21B−12B=14N2.515.516.03.251463-31.6
17Puiu, Natalia1523ROU−6N−2B−10B=20N+21N=15B2.016.517.02.501399-30.4
18Precup, Luca Ioan1627ROU−12B+22N−19B=14N=15N−11B2.013.013.53.001394-47.2
19Harosa, Mircea-Vladimir0ROU−5BF+18N=11B−7N−8B1.516.516.53.7514870.0
20Dumitrache, Dragos-Alexandru1563ROUF−15N−16B=17B+22N−13B1.510.510.51.501242-48.0
21Netoiu, Adrian0ROUF−6B−8N−16N−17B=22B0.512.512.50.257860.0
22Doncu, Ion-Alexandru0ROU−11N−18BF−10N−20B=21N0.511.011.00.258390.0
23Dumitrache, Elisa-Andreea1726ROUF−3N−9BFFF0.07.57.50.00857-47.6

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets