GMMustafa Yilmaz
- FIDE ID
- 6302718
About Mustafa Yilmaz
Mustafa Yılmaz was born in Ankara in 1992 and began playing chess at seven, encouraged by his older sister Ezgi. He joined the Turkish national team in 2008 and became the country's youngest national champion in 2009. He became an IM in 2009 and a GM in 2012. Show more
Mustafa Yılmaz was born in Ankara in 1992 and began playing chess at seven, encouraged by his older sister Ezgi. He joined the Turkish national team in 2008 and became the country's youngest national champion in 2009. He became an IM in 2009 and a GM in 2012. With support from the Turkish federation, he studied in the chess department of the Russian State Social University in Moscow. He won further Turkish championships in 2017 and 2022. In 2023 he finished runner-up in the Tata Steel Challengers with nine points from thirteen games. He reached the third round of that year's World Cup, losing to Fabiano Caruana in rapid tiebreaks.
FIDE rating history
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FIDE tournaments
| Date | Tournament | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-17 | 41st European Chess Club Cup - OPEN | Classical | 2 |
Available Games
Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-09 (UTC).
Online games are identified from known tournament names, playing sites and PGN mode. Other games are listed as OTB (over-the-board).
| # | Date | Event | Site | Round | White | Black | Result | Moves | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1101 | 2021-07-07 | 34th Leon Blitz Open 2021 | chess.com INT | 13 | Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 43 | Open |
| 1102 | 2021-07-07 | 34th Leon Blitz Open 2021 | chess.com INT | 12 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Matthias Bluebaum | 0-1 | 40 | Open |
| 1103 | 2021-07-07 | 34th Leon Blitz Open 2021 | chess.com INT | 11 | Igor Lysyj | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 47 | Open |
| 1104 | 2021-07-07 | 34th Leon Blitz Open 2021 | chess.com INT | 10 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Volodymyr Onyshchuk | 1/2-1/2 | 60 | Open |
| 1105 | 2021-06-08 | Titled Tuesday 8th June | chess.com INT | 9 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Narayanan S L | 0-1 | 42 | Open |
| 1106 | 2021-06-08 | Titled Tuesday 8th June | chess.com INT | 8 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Garg Aradhya | 1-0 | 44 | Open |
| 1107 | 2021-06-08 | Titled Tuesday 8th June | chess.com INT | 7 | Gahan M G | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1/2-1/2 | 61 | Open |
| 1108 | 2021-06-08 | Titled Tuesday 8th June | chess.com INT | 6 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Ori Kobo | 1-0 | 28 | Open |
| 1109 | 2021-06-08 | Titled Tuesday 8th June | chess.com INT | 5 | Victor Bologan | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 30 | Open |
| 1110 | 2021-06-08 | Titled Tuesday 8th June | chess.com INT | 4 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Aman Hambleton | 1-0 | 63 | Open |
| 1111 | 2021-06-08 | Titled Tuesday 8th June | chess.com INT | 3 | Pavel Shkapenko | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 54 | Open |
| 1112 | 2021-06-08 | Titled Tuesday 8th June | chess.com INT | 2 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Daniel Garcia Ramos | 1-0 | 38 | Open |
| 1113 | 2021-06-08 | Titled Tuesday 8th June | chess.com INT | 1 | Kamil Koziol | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 43 | Open |
| 1114 | 2021-06-08 | Titled Tuesday 8th June | chess.com INT | 11 | Robert Hess | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 63 | Open |
| 1115 | 2021-06-08 | Titled Tuesday 8th June | chess.com INT | 10 | Jonah B Willow | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 46 | Open |
| 1116 | 2021-05-30 | European Hybrid Swiss TB | Tornelo INT | 9.15 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Emre Can | 1/2-1/2 | 11 | Open |
| 1117 | 2021-05-30 | European Hybrid Swiss TB | Tornelo INT | 8.13 | Adam Kozak | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 57 | Open |
| 1118 | 2021-05-30 | European Hybrid Swiss TB | Tornelo INT | 7.13 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Ivan Ivanisevic | 0-1 | 61 | Open |
| 1119 | 2021-05-30 | European Hybrid Swiss TB | Tornelo INT | 6.12 | Pawel Teclaf | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1/2-1/2 | 43 | Open |
| 1120 | 2021-05-30 | European Hybrid Swiss TB | Tornelo INT | 5.8 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Evgeny Tomashevsky | 1/2-1/2 | 67 | Open |
| 1121 | 2021-05-30 | European Hybrid Swiss TB | Tornelo INT | 4.6 | Aleksandar Indjic | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 62 | Open |
| 1122 | 2021-05-30 | European Hybrid Swiss TB | Tornelo INT | 3.5 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Ivan Cheparinov | 1/2-1/2 | 41 | Open |
| 1123 | 2021-05-30 | European Hybrid Swiss TB | Tornelo INT | 2.5 | Vladimir Fedoseev | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1/2-1/2 | 63 | Open |
| 1124 | 2021-05-30 | European Hybrid Swiss TB | Tornelo INT | 1.15 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Boris Savchenko | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 1125 | 2021-05-29 | European Hybrid Qual 2021 | Tornelo INT | 3.4 | Robert Hovhannisyan | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1/2-1/2 | 48 | Open |
| 1126 | 2021-05-29 | European Hybrid Qual 2021 | Tornelo INT | 3.3 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Robert Hovhannisyan | 1-0 | 53 | Open |
| 1127 | 2021-05-29 | European Hybrid Qual 2021 | Tornelo INT | 3.2 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Robert Hovhannisyan | 1-0 | 45 | Open |
| 1128 | 2021-05-28 | European Hybrid Qual 2021 | Tornelo INT | 3.1 | Robert Hovhannisyan | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 58 | Open |
| 1129 | 2021-05-27 | European Hybrid Qual 2021 | Tornelo INT | 2.4 | Valentin Dragnev | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 39 | Open |
| 1130 | 2021-05-27 | European Hybrid Qual 2021 | Tornelo INT | 2.3 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Valentin Dragnev | 1-0 | 51 | Open |
| 1131 | 2021-05-27 | European Hybrid Qual 2021 | Tornelo INT | 2.2 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Valentin Dragnev | 1-0 | 44 | Open |
| 1132 | 2021-05-26 | European Hybrid Qual 2021 | Tornelo INT | 2.1 | Valentin Dragnev | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 57 | Open |
| 1133 | 2021-05-25 | European Hybrid Qual 2021 | Tornelo INT | 1.2 | Leon Livaic | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 48 | Open |
| 1134 | 2021-05-24 | European Hybrid Qual 2021 | Tornelo INT | 1.1 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Leon Livaic | 1-0 | 44 | Open |
| 1135 | 2021-05-11 | Titled Tuesday 11th May | chess.com INT | 2 | Ivan Aldokhin | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 40 | Open |
| 1136 | 2021-05-11 | Titled Tuesday 11th May | chess.com INT | 1 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Viktoriya Tarasova | 1-0 | 27 | Open |
| 1137 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Toivo Keinanen | 0-1 | 34 | Open |
| 1138 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Mikhail Demidov | 1/2-1/2 | 44 | Open |
| 1139 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Sanan Sjugirov | 1-0 | 52 | Open |
| 1140 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Gawain C B Maroroa Jones | 1-0 | 49 | Open |
| 1141 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Alexey Sarana | 1-0 | 42 | Open |
| 1142 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | David Larino Nieto | 1-0 | 43 | Open |
| 1143 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Andrii Palchuk | 1-0 | 19 | Open |
| 1144 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Vladislav Kovalev | 1-0 | 24 | Open |
| 1145 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Emin Ohanyan | 1-0 | 34 | Open |
| 1146 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Samuel Weber | 1-0 | 26 | Open |
| 1147 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Frederik Svane | 1-0 | 29 | Open |
| 1148 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Tuan Minh Le | 1-0 | 21 | Open |
| 1149 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Thomas Beerdsen | 1-0 | 13 | Open |
| 1150 | 2021-05-08 | Titled Arena May 8th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Toivo Keinanen | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 21 | Open |