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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1251 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Alan Pichot | 1-0 | 65 | Open |
| 1252 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mustafa Yilmaz | Thomas Beerdsen | 1-0 | 27 | Open |
| 1253 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Chithambaram VR. Aravindh | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1/2-1/2 | 67 | Open |
| 1254 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | David Paravyan | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 45 | Open |
| 1255 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Eric Hansen | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 38 | Open |
| 1256 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Vladimir Fedoseev | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1/2-1/2 | 31 | Open |
| 1257 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Vladislav Artemiev | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1/2-1/2 | 87 | Open |
| 1258 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Daniel Naroditsky | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 56 | Open |
| 1259 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Nils Grandelius | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 69 | Open |
| 1260 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Andrii Palchuk | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 35 | Open |
| 1261 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Olexandr Bortnyk | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 21 | Open |
| 1262 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Sergei Zhigalko | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 54 | Open |
| 1263 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Mahammad Muradli | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 19 | Open |
| 1264 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Emin Ohanyan | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 67 | Open |
| 1265 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | Paulius Pultinevicius | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 51 | Open |
| 1266 | 2021-03-06 | Titled Arena Mar 6th 2021 | lichess.org INT | - | German Della Morte | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 59 | Open |
| 1267 | 2021-03-02 | Titled Tuesday 2nd Mar | chess.com INT | 9 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Boris Savchenko | 0-1 | 31 | Open |
| 1268 | 2021-03-02 | Titled Tuesday 2nd Mar | chess.com INT | 8 | Artur Gabrielian | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 73 | Open |
| 1269 | 2021-03-02 | Titled Tuesday 2nd Mar | chess.com INT | 7 | Aziz Mert Erdogdu | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 25 | Open |
| 1270 | 2021-03-02 | Titled Tuesday 2nd Mar | chess.com INT | 6 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Nikolai Gritsenko | 1-0 | 58 | Open |
| 1271 | 2021-03-02 | Titled Tuesday 2nd Mar | chess.com INT | 3 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Evgeniy Najer | 0-1 | 40 | Open |
| 1272 | 2021-03-02 | Titled Tuesday 2nd Mar | chess.com INT | 2 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Ramyres Santana Coelho | 1-0 | 19 | Open |
| 1273 | 2021-03-02 | Titled Tuesday 2nd Mar | chess.com INT | 11 | Vugar Manafov | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 46 | Open |
| 1274 | 2021-03-02 | Titled Tuesday 2nd Mar | chess.com INT | 10 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Francesco Sonis | 0-1 | 59 | Open |
| 1275 | 2021-02-23 | Titled Tuesday 23rd Feb | chess.com INT | 9 | Oleg Vastrukhin | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 86 | Open |
| 1276 | 2021-02-23 | Titled Tuesday 23rd Feb | chess.com INT | 8 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 1277 | 2021-02-23 | Titled Tuesday 23rd Feb | chess.com INT | 7 | Vasif Durarbayli | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 30 | Open |
| 1278 | 2021-02-23 | Titled Tuesday 23rd Feb | chess.com INT | 6 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Aslan Aitbayev | 1-0 | 24 | Open |
| 1279 | 2021-02-23 | Titled Tuesday 23rd Feb | chess.com INT | 5 | Yuriy Kuzubov | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 49 | Open |
| 1280 | 2021-02-23 | Titled Tuesday 23rd Feb | chess.com INT | 4 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Alexander Rustemov | 1-0 | 22 | Open |
| 1281 | 2021-02-23 | Titled Tuesday 23rd Feb | chess.com INT | 3 | Polina Shuvalova | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 68 | Open |
| 1282 | 2021-02-23 | Titled Tuesday 23rd Feb | chess.com INT | 2 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Oleksiy Solovchuk | 1-0 | 34 | Open |
| 1283 | 2021-02-23 | Titled Tuesday 23rd Feb | chess.com INT | 1 | Guillermo Baches Garcia | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 33 | Open |
| 1284 | 2021-02-23 | Titled Tuesday 23rd Feb | chess.com INT | 11 | Miroslaw Lewicki | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 34 | Open |
| 1285 | 2021-02-23 | Titled Tuesday 23rd Feb | chess.com INT | 10 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Kirill Shevchenko | 0-1 | 112 | Open |
| 1286 | 2021-02-16 | Titled Tuesday 16th Feb | chess.com INT | 9 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Rustam Khusnutdinov | 0-1 | 33 | Open |
| 1287 | 2021-02-16 | Titled Tuesday 16th Feb | chess.com INT | 8 | Oleg Vastrukhin | Mustafa Yilmaz | 1-0 | 43 | Open |
| 1288 | 2021-02-16 | Titled Tuesday 16th Feb | chess.com INT | 7 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Elham Amar | 1-0 | 48 | Open |
| 1289 | 2021-02-16 | Titled Tuesday 16th Feb | chess.com INT | 6 | Yuriy Kuzubov | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 30 | Open |
| 1290 | 2021-02-16 | Titled Tuesday 16th Feb | chess.com INT | 5 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Maksim Chigaev | 1/2-1/2 | 81 | Open |
| 1291 | 2021-02-16 | Titled Tuesday 16th Feb | chess.com INT | 4 | Marcin Krzyzanowski | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 59 | Open |
| 1292 | 2021-02-16 | Titled Tuesday 16th Feb | chess.com INT | 3 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Milosz Szpar | 1-0 | 14 | Open |
| 1293 | 2021-02-16 | Titled Tuesday 16th Feb | chess.com INT | 2 | Lukasz Jarmula | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 34 | Open |
| 1294 | 2021-02-16 | Titled Tuesday 16th Feb | chess.com INT | 1 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Georges Leruste | 1-0 | 35 | Open |
| 1295 | 2021-02-16 | Titled Tuesday 16th Feb | chess.com INT | 10 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Ivan Ivanisevic | 0-1 | 33 | Open |
| 1296 | 2021-02-09 | Titled Tuesday 9th Feb | chess.com INT | 9 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Md. Jamal Uddin | 1-0 | 44 | Open |
| 1297 | 2021-02-09 | Titled Tuesday 9th Feb | chess.com INT | 8 | Ricardo Kropff | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 13 | Open |
| 1298 | 2021-02-09 | Titled Tuesday 9th Feb | chess.com INT | 11 | Poompong Wiwatanadate | Mustafa Yilmaz | 0-1 | 24 | Open |
| 1299 | 2021-02-09 | Titled Tuesday 9th Feb | chess.com INT | 10 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Anna Cramling Bellon | 1-0 | 22 | Open |
| 1300 | 2021-02-02 | Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb | chess.com INT | 9 | Mustafa Yilmaz | Conrad Holt | 1-0 | 40 | Open |