{"id":4985,"date":"2021-04-23T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2021-04-23T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T07:35:25","slug":"turkish-chess-players-earn-international-master-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/turkish-chess-players-earn-international-master-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish chess players earn international master titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Turkey&#8217;s chess body says Can Durak, Ozgun Sahin beat 2,300 ELO rating in April.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkish national chess players Can Durak and Ozgun Sahin have each earned their FIDE Master (FM) titles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement Thursday, the Turkish Chess Federation (TSF) said Durak, who is a teen chess player, had a 62 ELO rating in an ongoing chess tournament, IM Rujna Zora 3 in Serbia in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The TSF said Durak beat the 2,300 ELO rating in the tournament to earn his FM title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sahin also bagged the master title from the International Chess Federation (FIDE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar to Durak, Sahin beat the 2,300 rating after having a 24.4 ELO rating at the Vladimir Bato Kontic Memorial tournament in Montenegro this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FIDE Master title is one of the prestigious international chess titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highest FIDE rank is Grandmaster (GM), with famed Norwegian player Magnus Carlsen earning the title in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/qia.az\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Q\u0130A.az<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s chess body says Can Durak, Ozgun Sahin beat 2,300 ELO rating in April. Turkish national chess players Can Durak and Ozgun Sahin have each earned their FIDE Master (FM) titles.&nbsp; In a statement Thursday, the Turkish Chess Federation (TSF) said Durak, who is a teen chess player, had a 62 ELO rating in an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/turkish-chess-players-earn-international-master-titles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turkish chess players earn international master titles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agenda","category-slider","category-sport","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}