Suat Atalık


Suat Atalık, Heraklion 2007
Association	Turkey Turkey (1985 to 2000, 2005 to 2019) Bosnia and Herzegovina (2000 to 2005) France (until 1985) Serbia (since 2019) Bosnia and Herzegovina France Serbia
Born	October 10, 1964 Istanbul , Turkey
title	International Master (1988) Grand Master (1994)
Current Elo rating	2509 (July 2020)
Best Elo rating	2632 (April 2006)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Suat Atalık (born October 10, 1964 in Istanbul ) is a leading Turkish chess master . He has also played for the French Chess Federation (until 1985) and the Chess Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2000 to 2005) and has been eligible to play for the Serbian Chess Federation since 2019.

In 1988 Atalık became International Master and in 1994 Grand Master . He was the first Turk ever to be awarded this title. His most significant successes include tournament victories in Budapest 1992, Satu Mare 1994, Karditsa 1994, Hastings ( Masters ) 1995, Aegina 1996, Beijing 1996, Ikaria 1997, Ljubljana 1997, Chicago 1997, Budapest 1998, Alushta 1999, Los Angeles 1999 (shared with Tony Miles , Alexander Beliavsky and Ľubomír Ftáčnik ), Nova Gorica 2000, Podlehnik 2001, Mar del Plata 2003, Zenica 2004, Berkeley 2005, Pula 2005, Oberwart 2005, Kavala 2005. In 2006 he won the C tournament in Wijk aan Zee and the Mediterranean Championships in Antalya .

Suat Atalik, Bad Wiessee 2003

In mid-November 2003 Atalık won the 7th Open Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee am Tegernsee ahead of Fabian Döttling , who had just been awarded the title of Grand Master by FIDE.

He represented Turkey at the 1984 , 1986 , 1988 , 1992 , 1994 and 1998 Chess Olympiads . In 2000, after disputes with the Turkish Chess Federation, he wanted to strengthen the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina , but FIDE refused him participation for formal reasons. At the Olympics in 2002 and 2004, however, he played for the South Slavic country. In 2006, however, he fought for Turkey again.

In 2006, after a long period of abstinence, he took part in the Turkish championship in Istanbul, where he finished second behind the elected Turk Mikhail Gurevich . In 2007 he won the Turkish individual championship for the third time after 1987 and 1988.

In 2007 he won the 4th Mediterranean Championship in Cannes after ranking ahead of Manuel Apicella . In 2012 he was banned from the Turkish Chess Federation for 15 months. Atalık had refused to sign a declaration obliging Turkish players to have the chess federation approve foreign assignments beforehand. After the Greek Chess Federation took over this ban, he played a match against his wife in Chalkida , Greece , in August 2012 , which he won with 9.5: 4.5.

He has been married to the Russian women's grandmaster Jekaterina Polownikowa (* 1982) since November 2005 . Atalık is in sixth place (as of January 2015) in the Turkish Elo ranking, which he led from January 1987 to January 2000.

societies

Atalık played in the German Chess League in the 2000/01 season with Schachfreunde Neukölln , and in the 2003/04 season with Hamburger SK . In Bosnia he played for HŠK Napredak Sarajevo in 2003 and from 2004 to 2007 for ŠK Bosna Sarajevo , with whom he was team champion from 2004 to 2006. He also won the European Club Cup in 2000 with the ŠK Bosna Sarajevo .