Emre Can (chess player)

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Emre Can, Gaziantep 2008
Association TurkeyTurkey Turkey
Born January 21, 1990
Izmir , Turkey
title International Master (2007)
Grand Master (2010)
Current  Elo rating 2569 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2605 (December 2017)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Emre Can [ ˈɛmrɛ ˈdʒɑn ] (born January 21, 1990 in Izmir ) is a Turkish chess player .

Life

Emre Can studied at the private university Kadir Has in Fatih , a district of Istanbul .

successes

Tournaments

In 2011 Can won the Turkish individual championship with 8.5 points from 10 games. In February 2012 he won the B tournament of the Aeroflot Open in Moscow by one point. He started the tournament with six points from the first six games.

For the Turkish national junior team, he played on the fourth board at the 2003 U16 Olympics in Denizli . He played for the Turkish national team at the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden on the second board, the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk on the third board, the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul on the reserve board and the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø on the third board. At the Team World Championship 2010 in Bursa he played on the fourth board, at the Team World Championship 2013 in Antalya on the reserve board and at the European Team Championship 2011 in Porto Carras on the second board. At the 2010 Team World Cup, he played the rare Rosentreter Gambit (also known as the Rosentreter Testa Gambit), a variant of the King Jumper Gambit , against Gabriel Sarkissjan .

He played club chess at the European Club Cup 2004 in Izmir for Eczacıbaşı SK on the first reserve board ( Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov played on the first board ). At the Club Cup 2007 in Kemer , Emre Can played on the third board of the Türk Hava Yolları SK .

Title and rating

In January 2007 he received the title of International Master . He achieved the standards for this at the Turkish championship in March 2006 and at two Russian tournaments: a GM tournament in Dubna in August 2006, in which he finished sixth, and at the Petrovskaya Ladna GM tournament in Peterhof in August of the same year.

He has been a grandmaster since September 2010. He achieved the required standards at the Valoz Cup , a GM-A tournament in the Olomouc summer in July 2007, at the Kahraman-Olgaç Memorial in Konya in July 2009 (a double-round tournament with six participants), as well at the team world championship in Bursa in January 2010, in which he could get 3.5 points from 7 games and defeated Yury Shulman in the Tarrasch variant of the French defense . The title had already been applied for in July 2010, but Emre Can only had the required rating two months later.

In January 2015, he was fifth in the Turkish Elo ranking.

Elo development

Web links

Commons : Emre Can  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Turkish Championship in Antalya . Article by Anastassija Karlowytsch on chessbase.com from February 15, 2011 (English)
  2. ↑ Article on the Aeroflot Open from February 16, 2012 on chessbase.com (English)
  3. ↑ Chess Olympiads Emre Cans on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ^ The King's Gambit, Still Kicking ( Memento September 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Article by Hans Ree on ChessCafe.com (English, PDF )
  5. ↑ European Club Cups Emre Cans on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ IM application (English)
  7. ↑ GM application (English)
  8. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
personal data
SURNAME Can, Emre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish chess player
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Izmir