Mihail Marin (born 21 April 1965) is a

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chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by

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. Marin's first major success in international chess was in qualifying for the

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in 1987. He has won three Romanian Championships and has played in the

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

s ten times, winning a bronze individual medal in 1988. For several years he was editor of the magazine ''Chess Extrapress''. Marin has written a number of well-received books: ''Secrets of Chess Defence'' (Gambit Publications, 2003, ), ''Learn from the Legends: Chess Champions at Their Best'' (

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, 2004, ), ''Secrets of Attacking Chess'' (Gambit Publications, 2005, ), ''Beating the Open Games'' (

, 2007, , ), ''A Spanish Opening Repertoire for Black'' (

, 2007, , ) and ''Reggio Emilia 2007/2008'' (together with Yuri Garrett -

, 2009, ). ''Learn from the Legends'' was named the 2005 ChessCafe Book of the Year, and was nominated for the 2004 BCF Book of the Year. ''Secrets of Chess Defence'' was nominated for the 2003 ChessCafe Book of the Year.

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 and ...

Jeremy Silman Jeremy Silman (born August 28, 1954) is an American International Master (IM) of chess and writer. Silman was born in Del Rio, Texas. He began playing chess at the age of 12. He has won the American Open, the National Open, and the U.S. Open, and ...

, himself a prize-winning author of chess books, has called Marin "one of the world's finest chess writers" and wrote of ''Learn from the Legends'', "I can't recall having seen a better book in the last two decades".Silman's Review of ''Learn from the Legends''
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Interview with Mihail Marin
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marin, Mihail 1965 births Living people Chess players from Bucharest Romanian chess players Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess writers