The Moldovan Chess Championship has been contested every year since 1944. Since 1949 a separate women's championship has also been held in most years. Both championships are currently held under the auspices of the Moldova Chess Federation (Romanian: Federația de Șah a Republicii Moldova), which was founded on 2 November 1994.[1]
Open championship winners
Anatoly Lutikov, six-time Moldovan champion from 1963 to 1977Vasile Sanduleac, five-time Moldovan champion from 1998 to 2008Svetlana Petrenko, Moldovan champion in 2005 and eleven-time Moldovan women's champion
