Mustafa Yılmaz
Turkish chess player
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Mustafa Yılmaz at the World Chess Junior Championship, Athens, Greece in 2012
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Country | Turkey |
Born |
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1992-11-05
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5 November 1992
(age
30)
Mamak , Turkey |
Title | Grandmaster (2012) |
FIDE rating | 2634 (August 2023) |
Peak rating | 2641 (May 2023) |
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 three-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 Demre Kerigan ; to receive instruction from chess masters and to learn Russian. [8]
In January 2023, Yılmaz finished second in the Tata Steel Challengers with a score of 9/13.
Achievements
- World Junior Chess Championship
References
- ↑ "List of titles approved by the 83rd FIDE Congress (1-9 September 2012)" . FIDE.com . 17 September 2012 . Retrieved 12 January 2022 .
- ↑ "Yilmaz, Mustafa" . FIDE.com . Retrieved 16 July 2013 .
- ↑ "3.Geleneksel Mamak Satranç Şenliği" (in Turkish). Türkiye Satranç Federasyonu-Ankara İl Temsilciliği . Retrieved 16 July 2013 .
- ↑ "Türk satranç tarihine geçti" . Hürriyet Ankara (in Turkish). 28 April 2009 . Retrieved 16 July 2013 .
- 1 2 "İn cin yok, Mustafa Yılmaz var" . Sabah (in Turkish). 10 April 2009 . Retrieved 16 July 2013 .
- ↑ "38th Chess Olympiad Turkish National Teams-Men" (in Turkish). Turkish Chess Federation . Retrieved 16 July 2013 .
- ↑ "Mustafa Yılmaz tarihe geçti." Ajans Spor (in Turkish). 28 April 2009 . Retrieved 16 July 2013 .
- ↑ "Satrancı, "ana vatanı"nda öğreniyorlar" . Hürriyet (in Turkish). 10 January 2012 . Retrieved 16 July 2013 .
- ↑ "Türki̇ye Satranç Federasyonu" .
- ↑ "Türkiye Şampiyonu GM Mustafa Yılmaz" .
- ↑ "World Junior Championship Tournament" . Chessgames.com . Retrieved 16 July 2013 .
- ↑ "Ipatov dünya şampiyonu" . Sabah (in Turkish). 26 August 2012 . Retrieved 16 July 2013 .
External links
- Mustafa Yilmaz rating card at FIDE
- Mustafa Yilmaz player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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