15-year-old Ediz Gurel becomes Turkey’s youngest Grandmaster ever

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15-year-old Turkish International master Ediz Gurel (Turkey, 2560) will become the youngest Turkish player ever with the Grandmaster title!

Ediz Gurel emerged as the Winner of the Prague Chess Challengers 2024 which concluded today, and with the score of 6.5 points earned his third GM norm. Gurel fulfilled all the requirements to get the GM title, and once FIDE approves it, he will officially become Turkey’s youngest grandmaster ever!

Scoring 6.5 points in the Prague Chess Challengers 2024, Ediz Gurel performed with 2711 rating, earned 17 rating points and qualified himself for the next Prague Chess Masters. He finished half a point ahead of GM Jaime Santos Latasa (Spain, 2612) who came second with 6 points, while GM Erwin L’Ami (Netherlands, 2636) and GM Abhimanyu Mishra (USA, 2627) shared 3-4 place with 5.5 points. Final standings can be found below

Final rankings- Prague Chess Challengers 2024:

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	IM	Gurel Ediz	TUR	2560	6.5
2	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	ESP	2612	6
3	GM	L’ami Erwin	NED	2636	5.5
4	GM	Mishra Abhimanyu	USA	2627	5.5
5	GM	Korobov Anton	UKR	2666	5
6	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	ISR	2590	4.5
7	IM	Stalmach Richard	CZE	2434	4
8	IM	Vaishali Rameshbabu	IND	2481	3
9	IM	Hrbek Stepan	CZE	2426	2.5
10	IM	Finek Vaclav	CZE	2429	2.5