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Place of Birth: Bucharest
About Mihail Marin
- Mihail Marin (born 21 April 1965) is a Romanian chess Grandmaster.
- As of July 2011, his FIDE rating is 2548.
- Marin's first major success in international chess was in qualifying for the Interzonal in 1987.
- He has won three Romanian Championships and has played in the Chess Olympiads 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, ISBN 1-901983-91-9), Learn from the Legends: Chess Champions at Their Best (Quality Chess, 2004, ISBN 91-975243-2-8), Secrets of Attacking Chess (Gambit Publications, 2005, ISBN 1-904600-30-1), Beating the Open Games (Quality Chess, 2007, ISBN 91-976004-3-1, ISBN 978-91-976004-3-9), A Spanish Opening Repertoire for Black (Quality Chess, 2007, ISBN 91-976005-0-4, ISBN 978-91-976005-0-7) and Reggio Emilia 2007/2008 (together with Yuri Garrett - Quality Chess, 2009, ISBN 978-1-906552-32-9).
- Learn from the Legends was named the 2005 ChessCafe Book of the Year, and was nominated for the 2004 BCF Book of the Year.
- International Master Secrets of Chess Defence was nominated for the 2003 ChessCafe Book of the Year.
- Jeremy Silman, 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".
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