Andreea Bollengier | |
Full Name: | Andreea-Teodora Sasu-Ducșoara |
Country: | Romania France |
Birth Date: | 17 May 1975 |
Birth Place: | Brașov, Romania |
Death Place: | Talence, France |
Rating: | 2169 (September 2018) |
Peakrating: | 2291 (September 2014) |
Fideid: | 1203347 |
Andreea Bollengier (Sasu-Ducșoara; 17 May 1975 – 28 May 2021) was a Romanian-born French chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) since 2000. She was a two-time French Women's Chess Championship medalist (2011, 2014).
At the age of 5, Andreea started playing chess with her father Adrian Sasu-Ducșoara, an FIDE Master. Later, she won a Romanian Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girl's age group.[1]
In 2000, she played for Romania in the Women's Chess Olympiad, at first reserve board in the 34th Chess Olympiad (women) in Istanbul (+3, =2, −1).[2]
Bollengier won the French Women's Chess Championship Accession féminine tournament in 2010.[3] She twice won medals in French Women's Chess Championship: silver in 2014 and bronze in 2011.
In 2012, she played for France in the Women's Chess Olympiad, at fourth board in the 40th Chess Olympiad (women) in Istanbul (+4, =0, −3).[4]
Bollengier was married in 2005 and had two children. She died on 28 May 2021, at age 46, of an undisclosed illness.[5]