Mihail Marin

Mihail Marin
Mihail Marin, 2008
Full name	Mihail Marin
Country	Romania
Born	April 21, 1965 (1965-04-21) (age 46)
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2555 (No. 413 on the March 2011 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating	2616 (September 2009)

Mihail Marin (born 21 April 1965) is a Romanian chess Grandmaster. As of July 2011, his FIDE rating is 2548. Marin's first major success in international chess was in qualifying for the Interzonal in 1987. He has won three Romanian Championships^[1] and has played in the Chess Olympiads ten times, winning a bronze individual medal in 1988. For several years he was editor of the magazine Chess Extrapress.

Marin has written a number of well-received books: Secrets of Chess Defence (Gambit Publications, 2003, ISBN 1-901983-91-9), Learn from the Legends: Chess Champions at Their Best (Quality Chess, 2004, ISBN 91-975243-2-8), Secrets of Attacking Chess (Gambit Publications, 2005, ISBN 1904600301), Beating the Open Games (Quality Chess, 2007, ISBN 9197600431, ISBN 978-9197600439), A Spanish Opening Repertoire for Black (Quality Chess, 2007, ISBN 9197600504, ISBN 978-9197600507) and Reggio Emilia 2007/2008 (together with Yuri Garrett - Quality Chess, 2009, ISBN 9781906552329). Learn from the Legends was named the 2005 ChessCafe Book of the Year, and was nominated for the 2004 BCF Book of the Year.^[2] International Master Secrets of Chess Defence was nominated for the 2003 ChessCafe Book of the Year.^[3] Jeremy Silman, himself a prize-winning author of chess books, has called Marin "one of the world's finest chess writers"^[4] and wrote of Learn from the Legends, "I can't recall having seen a better book in the last two decades".^[5]

Notable games

• Joel Akesson vs Mihail Marin, Excelsior Cup 2004, Benoni Defense:Fianchetto Variation (A62), 1/2-1/2
• Pavel Blatny vs Mihail Marin, Haifa ETC 1989, Zukertort Opening: Nimzo-Larsen Variation (A04), 0-1

References

1. ^ Federaţia Română de Şah Prezentare (Romanian)
2. ^ Interview with Mihail Marin
3. ^ Id.
4. ^ Silman's Review of Beating the Open Games
5. ^ Silman's Review of Learn from the Legends

External links

• FIDE rating card for Mihail Marin
• Mihail Marin player profile at ChessGames.com
• Olympiads performance on Olimpbase.com
• Mihail Marin at 365Chess.com
• Chess Puzzles from the Games of Mihail Marin
• Books by Mihail Marin
• Interview with Mihail Marin

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Date of birth	21 April 1965
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