peakrating birth_place title fideid birth_date birthname article_title
2415 -lrb- july 1997 -rrb- bourgas , bulgaria grandmaster -lrb- 1972 -rrb- 2900300 7 january 1939 ivan georgiev radulov ivan radulov

ivan radulov

ivan radulov -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born 7 january 1939 in burgas -rrb- is a bulgarian chess grandmaster .
as a chess player , he was most prominent during the 1970s , winning the bulgarian championship in 1971 , 1974 , 1977 and 1980 .
he just missed out at the 1976 event , finishing 2nd -lrb- with peicho peev , after evgeny ermenkov -rrb- .
it was during this decade that radulov took over from georgi tringov as bulgaria 's leading player , eventually giving way to kiril georgiev in the 1980s .
international tournament victories came at torremolinos 1971 -lrb- shared with miguel quinteros -rrb- , helsinki 1972 , montilla 1974 -lrb- ahead of a strong field including lubomir kavalek , helmut pfleger , miguel quinteros , florin gheorghiu and ulf andersson -rrb- , bajmok 1975 -lrb- shared with milan matulović and milan vukić -rrb- , montilla 1975 -lrb- shared with lev polugaevsky -rrb- and kikinda 1976 .
second places at varna 1968 , debrecen 1968 and silkeborg 1983 were also noteworthy achievements and his third place at albena in 1975 , contributed to a busy and successful year .
in 2013 in plovdiv he won the european senior rapid championships .
he was a regular member of the bulgarian olympiad team , competing eight times between 1968 and 1986 and winning bronze team and individual medals at his first appearance .
international master and international grandmaster titles were awarded to radulov in 1968 and 1972 , respectively .
he was for many years a practicing civil engineer and among other projects , contributed to the design of the central train station of sofia .
ivan radulov has been married for more than 40 years to eleonora and together they have two children and four grandchildren : viktoria , ivan , another ivan , and julian .
