Kübra Öztürk (born May 11, 1991) is a Turkish female chess player. As of the July 2012
FIDE
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rating list, she is ranked number 199 in the world and second in Turkey among female active players. She earned FIDE titles as
Woman FIDE Master
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(WFM) in 2006,
Woman International Master
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(WIM) in 2009 and
Woman Grandmaster
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(WGM) on February 5, 2011.
[ She is a student of physical education and sports at ]Hacettepe University
Hacettepe University is a leading state university in Ankara, Turkey. It was established on 8 July 1967. It is ranked first among the Turkish universities by URAP in 2021.
The university has two main campuses. The first campus is in the old t ...
in Ankara. She is a member of Beşiktaş J.K.'s chess team.
She was born in 1991 in a low-income family to Durak Öztürk, a worker in a garment workshop, and his wife Gülizar as the third child. She has a sister and a brother. She grew up in a one-room shanty in the slums of
Mamak,
Ankara
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with her parents and paralytic grandfather.
Already in the second class of the primary school and eight years old in 1998, she attended a chess course in her neighborhood. Only eight months after her begin, her chess instructor İslam Osmanoğlu took Kübra to the
World Youth Chess Championship
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held in
Oropesa del Mar
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, Spain, where she placed 44th in her age category. At the age of nine, she placed third in the under-10 category of national championship. She won the Turkish champion title six times after 1999. In 2006 and 2007, Kübra Öztürk became European champion. At the World Championship held in
Kemer
Kemer is a seaside resort and district of Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, west of the city of Antalya, on the Turkish Riviera.
Kemer is on the Gulf of Antalya, of sea coast with the skirts of the western Taurus Mountain ...
,
Antalya
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, Turkey in November 2007, she placed fourth at the U-16 girls category even though she gathered the same points with the winner.
After the 2006 Chess Olympiad in Italy, she was awarded the title Woman FIDE Master (WFM). Kübra Öztürk was named Woman Grandmaster after her success at the World Women's Chess Club Championship held in
Mardin, Turkey as the second WGM following Betül Cemre Yıldız.
Meanwhile, she helped finance her brother Mehmet's education, who studied Physic at
Süleyman Demirel University
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in
Isparta
Isparta is a city in western Turkey and the capital of Isparta Province. The city's population was 222,556 in 2010 and its elevation is 1035 m. It is known as the "City of Roses".
Isparta is well-connected to other parts of Turkey via roads. Ant ...
, with her income from chess.
She won the
Turkish Chess Championship Following are the official winners of the national Turkish Chess Championships from 1962 to date.
Winners
:
Notes
References
Lists of winners from the Turkish Chess Federation (TCF)
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women's title in Kemer, Antalya on January 29- February, 2012 defeating title-defender
Betül Cemre Yıldız
Betül Cemre Yıldız Kadıoğlu (born 16 May 1989) is a top female chess player from Turkey. She is a Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and won the Turkish women's championship eleven times in total.
She became in 2004 Woman International Master (WIM), ...
in the final game.
She played board three for Turkey in the women's
chess olympiad
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in
Baku
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in 2016 scoring +4 =4 -3.
Achievements
;
Turkish Chess Championship Following are the official winners of the national Turkish Chess Championships from 1962 to date.
Winners
:
Notes
References
Lists of winners from the Turkish Chess Federation (TCF)
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(women's section)
* 2012 – champion
References
External links
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1991 births
Living people
People from Mamak, Ankara
Turkish female chess players
Turkish sportswomen
Beşiktaş J.K. athletes
Hacettepe University alumni
Chess woman grandmasters