Cemil Can Ali Marandi

Cemil Can Ali Marandi repeatedly participated in European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships, where he set a peculiar record, winning five times European Youth Chess Championships in five different age groups:

• In 2008, in U10 age group,[1]
• In 2010, in U12 age group,[2]
• In 2011, in U14 age group,[3]
• In 2014, in U16 age group,[4]
• In 2015, in U18 age group.[5][6]

Cemil Can Ali Marandi four times participated in the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiads (2009-2010, 2013-2014), where he won bronze medal in team scoring (2014).[7] Also he four times participated in the European Boys' U18 Team Chess Championship (2011, 2014-2016), where he won gold (2014) and silver (2011) medals in team scoring, as well as gold (2014) medal in individual scoring.[8]

Cemil Can Ali Marandi played for Turkey 2 in the Chess Olympiad:[9]

• In 2012, at second board in the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (+2, =5, -2).

Cemil Can Ali Marandi played for Turkey in the European Team Chess Championship:[10]

• In 2011, at third board in the 18th European Team Chess Championship in Porto Carras (+1, =3, -2).

In 2019, Cemil Can Ali Marandi won the US Thanksgiving Open tied with Illia Nyzhnyk and Peter Prohaszka.[11]

He is the 7th best Turkish chess player. (May 2020)

In 2013, he was awarded the FIDE title of International Master (IM)[12] and received the Grandmaster (GM) title four year later.[13]

In January 2020, Ali Marandi tied for second place with a score of 6.5/9 in the Charlotte Open, held in Charlotte, North Carolina, tying with GM Akshat Chandra, GM Andrew Tang, GM Ulvi Bajarani, and IM Aaron Grabinsky.[14]

More details can be found at his website, www.cemilcan.com.[15]

• Cemil Can Ali Marandi rating card at FIDE
• Cemil Can Ali Marandi chess games at 365Chess.com
• Cemil Can Ali Marandi player profile and games at Chessgames.com