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Mustafa Yılmaz (born 5 November 1992) is a Turkish
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player who received the
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of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012. He is a three-time Turkish Chess Champion.


Chess career

He earned the titles of
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(FM) in 2008 and
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 ...
(IM) in 2009. He is a native of Mamak in
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. Yılmaz began playing chess at the age of seven, encouraged by his older sister Ezgi Yılmaz, also a Turkish chess champion. He attended the same chess course in Mamak, Ankara with
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, who became a
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(WGM). In 2008, Yılmaz was admitted to the Turkish national chess team. The same year, he took part in the
38th Chess Olympiad The 38th Chess Olympiad (), organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place from 12 to 25 November 2008 in Dresden, Germany. There were 146 teams ...
held in
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, Germany. In 2009, he became the youngest Turkish chess champion, defeating
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in the final round and reaching a total score of 11½/13. At the initiative of the
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, in 2012 he entered the Chess Department of
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in
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along with
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and
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; to receive instruction from chess masters and to learn Russian. In January 2023, Yılmaz finished second in the
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Challengers with a score of 9/13. He took part in the
Chess World Cup 2023 The Chess World Cup 2023 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 30 July to 24 August 2023. It was the 10th edition of the Chess World Cup. The winner, runner-up and third-place finisher of t ...
, where he reached the third round and lost in rapid tiebreaks to 3rd seed
Fabiano Caruana Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning four-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana is the third-highest-rated player in history. Born in Mia ...
after missing a huge chance in the second classical game . After the World Cup, Yilmaz had a surge in rating after strong showings at the European Club Cup and the FIDE Grand Swiss 2023. In the former, he scored 5,5/7 beating Vallejo Pons and only losing against Armenian GM Haik Martirosyan, while in the latter he scored 6,5/11, losing only in the first round against 2750-rated Richard Rapport and beating notable opponents such as
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and Harikrishna, mustering an overall TPR of 2753. He, then, took part in the
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playing on board 1 for Turkey, scoring 4,5/8 as Turkey finished in 22nd place.


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) {{Chess national championships Chess national championships ...
* 2009 – champion * 2017 – champion * 2022 – champion ;World Junior Chess Championship * 2012 – 19th place


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* * 1992 births Living people Turkish chess players Chess Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Russia {{Turkey-chess-bio-stub People from Mamak, Ankara