Betül Cemre Yıldız Kadıoğlu (born 16 May 1989) is a top female

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player from

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. She is a

Woman Grandmaster FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(WGM), and won the Turkish women's championship eleven times in total. She became in 2004

Woman International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating an ...

(WIM), and was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster in 2012, becoming the first ever Turkish WGM. Yıldız won the bronze medal at the World Under-18 Girls Championship of 2007 and at the

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of 2009.

Biography

Yıldız was born on May 16, 1989, in

Adapazarı Adapazarı () is a city in northwestern Turkey and the central district of Sakarya Province. The province itself was originally named Adapazarı as well. Adapazarı is a part of the densely populated region of the country known as the Marmara Re ...

. She began chess playing at the age of nine, interested while watching her older brothers playing with her father. However, the ambitious girl was ignored by her brothers. So, she attended the chess course at her school without letting her family know about it. Her father was against her participation at tournaments. She, however, took part at her first tournament and won all the seven games and became İzmir champion at her age group. She represented her country two years later at the Chess Olympiad. In 2003, Yıldız became an FIDE master and the next year WIM. Yıldız studied law at the

Dokuz Eylül University Dokuz Eylül University ( tr, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi) (DEÜ) is a university in İzmir, Turkey. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 15 faculties. DEU is the first university which applied the problem-based learning method in Turkey, ...

in Izmir and economics at the

Anadolu University Anadolu University ( tr, Anadolu Üniversitesi) is a public university in Eskişehir, Turkey. The university is known for its success in verbal fields such as history and communication. Its Faculty of Communication Sciences is sometimes considered ...

Eskişehir Eskişehir ( , ; from "old" and "city") is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. The urban population of the city is 898,369 with a metropolitan population of 797,708. The city is located on the banks of the ...

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. After completing her studies, she started a lawyer profession. Currently, she is also engaged in teaching chess to children at a center named after her in Balçova, İzmir.

Achievements

; Turkish Chess Championship (women's section) * 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019 – champion * 2007 World Youth Chess Championship U18 Girls - Bronze Medal * 2009 World Junior Chess Championship U20 Girls - Bronze Medal (shared 1st place) * 2012 Istanbul Chess Olympiad 2nd Board - Bronze Medal ;

Turkish draughts Turkish draughts (Turkish: Dama)(Armenian: շաշկի)(Arabic: دامە)(Kurmanji: دامە) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and several other locations around the Mediterranean Se ...

* 2016 1st Women's World Championship Turkish Draughts - Bronze Medal

References

External links

* * 1989 births Living people Turkish female chess players Chess woman grandmasters Sportspeople from Adapazarı Dokuz Eylül University alumni Anadolu University alumni 21st-century Turkish lawyers {{Turkey-chess-bio-stub