Mustafa Yılmaz

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Mustafa Yılmaz
Mustafa Yilmaz 2012.jpg
Mustafa Yılmaz at the World Chess Junior Championship, Athens, Greece in 2012
CountryTurkey
Born (1992-11-05) 5 November 1992 (age 29)
Mamak, Turkey
TitleGrandmaster (2012)
FIDE rating2627 (February 2022)
Peak rating2640 (July 2017)

Mustafa Yılmaz (born 5 November 1992) is a Turkish chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012.[1] He is a two-time Turkish Chess Champion.

In the July 2013 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number 407 among active players in the world and number 6 in Turkey. He earned the titles of FIDE Master (FM) in 2008 and International Master (IM) in 2009.[2] He is a native of Mamak in Ankara.[3]

Yılmaz began playing chess at the age of seven, encouraged by his older sister Ezgi Yılmaz, also a Turkish chess champion.[4] He attended the same chess course in Mamak, Ankara with Kübra Öztürk, who became a Woman Grandmaster (WGM).[5]

In 2008, Yılmaz was admitted to the Turkish national chess team. The same year, he took part in the 38th Chess Olympiad held in Dresden, Germany.[6] In 2009, he became the youngest Turkish chess champion, defeating Barış Esen in the final round and reaching a total score of 11½/13.[5][7]

At the initiative of the Turkish Chess Federation, in 2012 he entered the Chess Department of Russian State Social University in Moscow along with Burak Fırat and ; to receive instruction from chess masters and to learn Russian.[8]

Achievements[]

Turkish Chess Championship
  • 2009 – champion
World Junior Chess Championship

References[]

  1. ^ "List of titles approved by the 83rd FIDE Congress (1-9 September 2012)". FIDE.com. 17 September 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Yilmaz, Mustafa". FIDE.com. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  3. ^ "3.Geleneksel Mamak Satranç Şenliği" (in Turkish). Türkiye Satranç Federasyonu-Ankara İl Temsilciliği. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Türk satranç tarihine geçti". Hürriyet Ankara (in Turkish). 28 April 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  5. ^ a b "İn cin yok, Mustafa Yılmaz var". Sabah (in Turkish). 10 April 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  6. ^ "38th Chess Olympiad Turkish National Teams-Men" (in Turkish). Turkish Chess Federation. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  7. ^ "Mustafa Yılmaz tarihe geçti." Ajans Spor (in Turkish). 28 April 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  8. ^ "Satrancı, "ana vatanı"nda öğreniyorlar". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 10 January 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  9. ^ "World Junior Championship Tournament". Chessgames.com. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  10. ^ "Ipatov dünya şampiyonu". Sabah (in Turkish). 26 August 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2013.

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