CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · General Reference

Moldovan Chess Championship

Chess championship

Cross-disciplinary reference desk with index cards, atlas, dictionary and catalogue
General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ20873007 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

Editorial summary

“Moldovan Chess Championship” enters the record as chess championship. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Moldovan, Chess and Championship can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1944, 1949, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1944. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Moldovan, Chess and Championship.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Moldovan Chess Championship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Moldovan, Chess and Championship provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20873007. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1944, 1949 and 1994.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Moldovan Chess Championship”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Moldovan Chess Championship primary sources, Moldovan Chess Championship archive and Moldovan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Moldovan Chess Championship”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Moldovan Chess Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.