- Suat Atalık
Infobox chess player
playername = Suat Atalık
caption=
birthname = Suat Atalık
country = TUR
BIH
datebirth = birth date and age|1964|10|10
placebirth =Istanbul ,Turkey
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =
rating = 2597
peakrating = 2632 (April 2006)Suat Atalık (born
October 10 ,1964 ) is a Grandmaster ofchess . As of the October 2006FIDE rating list, he is ranked number 187 in the world and number two inTurkey , behind Mikhail Gurevich.He went to
Galatasaray Lycee and studiedPsychology inBosphorus University .He was born in
Turkey in 1964, and represented Turkey in the World Junior Championship in 1983 and was their top board for severalChess Olympiads .Despite this, and his current residence in
Istanbul , he had disputes with chess organizers in his country, so he declared himself to be a resident ofBosnia and Herzegovina , his ancestral home.During the 2000 World
Chess Olympiad inIstanbul , Atalik insisted on playing for Bosnia rather than Turkey. As a result, the organizers of the Olympiad banned him from the competition.After the selection of the new national chess federation, he has returned to play under the Turkish national team again.
In 2003 he took first at Mar del Plata.
On
November 11 ,2005 he married 22-year-old woman grandmasterEkaterina Polovnikova fromRussia . Former world championship challengerNigel Short , who also played in the World Junior Championship in 1983 was hisbest man .Atalık was the only Grandmaster registered in Turkish Chess Federation in Turkey beginning in 1994 and ending in 2005, when Mikhail Gurevich took up residence there. But he is yet the only Turkish GM from Turkey. At the moment strong junior players like
Mert Erdoğdu orUmut Atakişi are considered to be the 2nd GM within 10 years.External links
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* [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2731 Chessbase News Reports: Grandmaster Atalik marries Woman Grandmaster Ekaterina Polovnikova]
*citation
last=Crowther | first=Mark
date=21 April 2003
title=THE WEEK IN CHESS 441: XXXIV Mar del Plata Open
url=http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic441.html#17
publisher=London Chess Center
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