GMAdar Tarhan

Adar Tarhan was born in Istanbul in 2007 and began chess at six. He attended Bilfen schools before joining ENKA High School on a chess scholarship. He won Turkish age-group championships at under-fourteen in 2021, under-fifteen in 2022, under-seventeen in 2024 and under-eighteen in 2025. He became an international master in 2023. That year he won the World Schools under-seventeen championship. He also helped ENKA win Turkey's under-eighteen team championship, scoring a perfect eight points on board three. In 2024 he won the European Schools under-seventeen title. He finished fourth at the 2025 World Junior Championship. His grandmaster norms came in Abu Dhabi in 2023, the Serbian league in 2024 and the Budapest Spring Festival in March 2026. FIDE records his grandmaster title in 2026.