Cristina Adela FoiÃÂor ( BÃÂdulescu; 7 June 1967 â 22 January 2017) was a Romanian chess player. She was awarded by FIDE the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1991 and International Master (IM) in 1997.
FoiÃÂor was born on 7 June 1967 in PetroÃÂani and studied Mathematics at the University of TimiÃÂoara.
FoiÃÂor won the Women's Romanian Chess Championship five times: in 1989, 1998, 2011, 2012 and 2013. In 2007, she won the title of women's champion of the European Union and received the title of honorary citizen of the city of PetroÃÂani.
In 1994, FoiÃÂor played in the Women's Candidates Tournament in Tilburg, for which she qualified through the 1993 Interzonal Tournament in Jakarta. She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship held with the knock-out format in 2001, 2006, 2010 and 2012.
In 2006, FoiÃÂor shared first place with Anna Zatonskih and Elena-LuminiÃÂa Cosma in the WGM tournament of the Marseille Chess Festival.
In team events, she represented Romania at fourteen Women's Chess Olympiads (1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016), 2013 Women's World Team Chess Championship, eight Women's European Team Chess Championships (1992, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2013 and 2015), and three Women's Chess Balkaniads (1985, 1990 and 1992). In this latter competition, FoiÃÂor won two gold medals (team and individual playing board 2) in 1985. In the European Club Cup for Women, playing for team AEM Luxten TimiÃÂoara, she won a team gold medal in 1998 and two team silver, in 1999 and 2011.
FoiÃÂor died at the TimiÃÂoara County Hospital on 22 January 2017. She had been scheduled to play at the Women's World Championship in Iran in February 2017.
She was married to 1982 Romania chess champion International Master Ovidiu-Doru FoiÃÂor and their daughters are also titled chess players: Sabina-Francesca FoiÃÂor is a Woman Grandmaster and Mihaela-Veronica FoiÃÂor is a Woman International Master.