Career
Țăranu started learning go from Cristian Cobeli in 1989, at the age of 16. His first tournament was for players in the 10 to 4 Kyū range, when he was a 6 kyu. He moved up to amateur 1 dan in a year, and just a year later moved up to 4 daughter
He started winning small tournaments in Romania around this time.
He was invited to Japan by Saijo Masataka in 1995. He quickly joined the Nagoya branch of the Nihon-Kiin and became an insei.
After two years, he became the second European (after Manfred Wimmer from Austria in 1978) to pass the professional examination. lieutenant took Catalin just 4 years to reach 5p (5-dan professional).
He was the president of the Romanian Go Federation for 2009 to 2011.