Vahap Şanal (born 26 May 1998) is a Turkish

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grandmaster and two-time Turkish Chess Champion.

Chess career

In 2006, Şanal became the youngest player on the Turkish national team at the age of eight and defeated world champion

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in an online blitz game in 2019. Şanal won the 4th World Schools Chess Championships, U11 section in 2008, scoring 8.5/9, and becoming a

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in the process. In 2012, he won the European School Championship Open 15, scoring 8.5/9, and also became a

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that year. He won the Turkish Chess Championship in 2019 and 2020. He qualified to play in the

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and

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. Şanal took part in the 23rd European Chess Championship and won the individual bronze medal for his board. In 2022, Şanal played first board at Turkish Chess Super League. He scored 9/12 winning the first board prize with performance of 2796. Sanal became the first Turkish chess player to reach the fourth round of Chess World Cup by eliminating

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in the second round and

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in the third round of the

. He was defeated by

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in the fourth round in tiebreaks.

References

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