Tansel Turgut | |
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Country | Turkey |
Born | 1966 (age 57–58) |
Title | FIDE Master (2014) |
FIDE rating | 2207 (August 2021) |
Peak rating | 2305 (June 2015) |
Tansel Turgut (born 1966) is a Turkish-American cardiologist and chess player. He was born in Turkey, and moved to the US in 1992.[1] He practices medicine at the Beacon Medical Group's Advanced Cardiology Specialists division in South Bend, Indiana.[2]
Turgut was the 1997 state chess champion of Louisiana, and the 1998 state champion of Michigan.[3] In 2023, he also won the Indiana State Chess Championship [4]. In 2007, he earned the title of International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, the only grand master of correspondence chess from Turkey.[5] The International Correspondence Chess Federation has given him the highest rating among US correspondence chess players;[3] he also became a FIDE Master in over the board play in 2014.[1][3]
His son, Aydin Turgut, is also a strong chess player.[6]