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.

Mustafa Yılmaz
Mustafa Yılmaz at the World Chess Junior Championship, Athens, Greece in 2012
Country	Turkey
Born	(1992-11-05) 5 November 1992 (age 29) Mamak, Turkey
Title	Grandmaster (2012)
FIDE rating	2631 (June 2022)
Peak rating	2640 (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 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]

Achievements

Turkish Chess Championship

• 2009 – champion

World Junior Chess Championship

• 2012 – 19th place[9][10]

References

External links

• Mustafa Yilmaz rating card at FIDE
• Mustafa Yilmaz player profile and games at Chessgames.com

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[ru] Йылмаз, Мустафа