Mustafa Yılmaz

Mustafa Yılmaz (born November 5, 1992) is a Turkish chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Turkish Chess Champion.

Mustafa Yılmaz
Mustafa Yılmaz at the World Chess Junior Championship, Athens, Greece in 2012
CountryTurkey
Born (1992-11-05) November 5, 1992
Mamak, Turkey
TitleGrandmaster (2012)
FIDE rating2630 (February 2021)
Peak rating2640 (July 2017)

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
Turkish Chess Championship
  • 2009 – champion
World Junior Chess Championship

References
  1. "FIDE Chess Profile-Yilmaz, Mustafa" (in Turkish). World Chess Federation. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
  2. "3.Geleneksel Mamak Satranç Şenliği" (in Turkish). Türkiye Satranç Federasyonu-Ankara İl Temsilciliği. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
  3. "Türk satranç tarihine geçti". Hürriyet Ankara (in Turkish). 2009-04-28. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
  4. "İn cin yok, Mustafa Yılmaz var". Sabah (in Turkish). 2009-04-10. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
  5. "38th Chess Olympiad Turkish National Teams-Men". Turkish Chess Federation. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
  6. "Mustafa Yılmaz tarihe geçti." Ajans Spor (in Turkish). 2009-04-28. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
  7. "Satrancı, "ana vatanı"nda öğreniyorlar". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2012-01-10. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
  8. "World Junior Championship Tournament". Chess Games. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
  9. "Ipatov dünya şampiyonu". Sabah (in Turkish). 2012-08-26. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
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