Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu

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Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Country	Romania (until 2014; since 2023) Germany (2014–2023)
Born	(1976-08-01) 1 August 1976 (age 48) Braşov, Romania
Title	Grandmaster (1997)
FIDE rating	2584 (October 2024)
Peak rating	2707 (October 2005)
Peak ranking	No. 15 (October 2005)

Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (born 1 August 1976) is a Romanian chess grandmaster. His peak FIDE rating was 2707 in October 2005, when he was ranked fifteenth in the world, and the highest rated Romanian player ever. His highly aggressive style of play has earned him a reputation of a modern-day Mikhail Tal.^[1]