Chess Team

Hi, I'm Burak. I am a senior student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. I also play chess professionally in the Chess Team. Chess is a strategy game with the goal of capturing the opponent's king with the various unique stone pieces that you have on hand. Our chess team was established in 2015. Our aim is to represent Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University in international and national chess tournaments. As the Chess Team, we are able to use all facililites on campus, we have a good understanding about this. We can play chess in the canteen and in our club rooms. As of 2019, our chess team consists of 4 female and 4 male players. Throughout the year, we gather with our friends in chess cafes in certain locations in Ankara and organize chess tournaments. In these tournaments, we develop our own skills and meet other chess fans. Every year, an inter-university chess tournament is held. We also participate in this tournament as a team. As Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University chess team, we won the second place at the tournament held in Başkent University in Ankara in 2017. Besides that, we came in 7th place in Turkey in the women's category in the Turkey Chess Tournament. In June 2016, I won first place in my category in Ankara at the ELO-UKD (ELO-International Force Ranking) Tournament. Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University Chess Team is open to all chess fans studying at this university. I think that chess as a sport and the Chess Team help me think strategically, develop socially and make deeper analyzes. We are looking forward to all the students coming to our university to join the Chess Team.