Mustafa Yılmaz
| Mustafa Yılmaz | |
|---|---|
 Mustafa Yılmaz at the World Chess Junior Championship, Athens, Greece in 2012 | |
| Country |  Turkey |
| Born | November 5, 1992 Turkey |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2568 (November 2024) |
Mustafa Yılmaz (born November 5, 1992) is a Turkish chess grandmaster. 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 FIDE titles as FIDE Master (FM) in 2008, International Master (IM) in 2009 and Grand Master (GM) on September 10, 2012.[1] He is a native of Mamak in Ankara.[2]
Yılmaz began playing chess at the age of seven, encouraged by his older sister Ezgi Yılmaz, also a Turkish chess champion.[3] He attended the same chess course in Mamak, Ankara with Kübra Öztürk, who became a Woman Grandmaster (WGM).[4]
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.[5] In 2009, he became the youngest Turkish chess champion, defeating Barış Esen in the final round and reaching a total score of 11½/13.[4][6]
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.[7]
Achievements
- 2009 – champion
- World Junior Chess Championship
References
- ^ "FIDE Chess Profile-Yilmaz, Mustafa" (in Turkish). World Chess Federation. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
- ^ "3.Geleneksel Mamak Satranç Şenliği" (in Turkish). Türkiye Satranç Federasyonu-Ankara İl Temsilciliği. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
- ^ "Türk satranç tarihine geçti". Hürriyet Ankara (in Turkish). 2009-04-28. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
- ^ a b "İn cin yok, Mustafa Yılmaz var". Sabah (in Turkish). 2009-04-10. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
- ^ "38th Chess Olympiad Turkish National Teams-Men". Turkish Chess Federation. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
- ^ "Mustafa Yılmaz tarihe geçti." Ajans Spor (in Turkish). 2009-04-28. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
- ^ "Satrancı, "ana vatanı"nda öğreniyorlar". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2012-01-10. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
- ^ "World Junior Championship Tournament". Chess Games. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
- ^ "Ipatov dünya şampiyonu". Sabah (in Turkish). 2012-08-26. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
External links
- Mustafa Yılmaz at Chess Games
- Mustafa Yilmaz rating card at FIDE
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