Mustafa Yılmaz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mustafa Yılmaz

Turkish chess player

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1992

Place of Birth: Kastamonu Province, Turkey

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Mustafa Yilmaz (born November 5, 1992) is a Turkish chess grandmaster.
He is a two-time Turkish Chess Champion. In the July 2013 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number 407 among active players in the world and number 6 in Turkey.
He earned FIDE titles as FIDE Master (FM) in 2008, International Master (IM) in 2009 and Grand Master (GM) on September 10, 2012.
He is a native of Mamak in Ankara.Yilmaz began playing chess at the age of seven, encouraged by his older sister Ezgi Yilmaz, also a Turkish chess champion.
He attended the same chess course in Mamak, Ankara with Kübra Öztürk, who became a Woman Grandmaster (WGM).In 2008, Yilmaz was admitted to the Turkish national chess team.
The same year, he took part in the 38th Chess Olympiad held in Dresden, Germany.
In 2009, he became the youngest Turkish chess champion, defeating Baris Esen in the final round and reaching a total score of 11½/13.At the initiative of the Turkish Chess Federation, in 2012 he entered the Chess Department of Russian State Social University in Moscow along with Burak Firat and Demre Kerigan; to receive instruction from chess masters and to learn Russian.