Dragan Šolak (chess player)
Turkish-Serbian chess grandmaster (born 1980)
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Dragan Šolak (Serbian: Драган Шолак; born 30 March 1980) is a Turkish-Serbian chess grandmaster.
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Dragan Šolak, Baku 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 March 1980 |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Yugoslavia → Serbia (until 2011) Turkey (since 2011) |
| Title | Grandmaster (2001) |
| FIDE rating | 2590 (September 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2641 (November 2016) |
| Peak ranking | No. 95 (April 2008) |
Career
Šolak learnt chess from a very young age and started participating in tournaments before he turned four years of age.[1] In 2002 he tied for 1st–3rd with Vladimir Tukmakov and Andrei Sokolov in the Hilton Open in Basel[2] and tied for 3rd–4th with Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska in the Casino Open in Interlaken.[3] In 2011 he tied for 3rd–7th with Sergey Volkov, Ioannis Nikolaidis, Konstantine Shanava and Fernando Peralta in the 1st Isthmia International Tournament.[4]
He played for the Yugoslav (later Serbian) national team in the Chess Olympiads of 2000, 2004, 2008[5] and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1999, 2005, 2009 and 2011.[6]
In December 2011 he transferred to the Turkish Chess Federation.[7] Šolak represented Turkey at the Chess Olympiads of 2012, 2014, 2016[5] and at the European Team Championship of 2013.[6] He won the Turkish Chess Championship in 2012 and 2013.
Šolak finished equal second (fourth on tiebreak) at the 2014 European Individual Chess Championship, scoring 8/11, and qualifying for the 2015 Chess World Cup.[8] In 2015, he won the Dubai Open, edging out the other five grandmasters on tiebreak, after all finished on 7/9 points.[9] At the Chess World Cup 2015 he was eliminated in the first round by Anton Korobov.
His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "RuznaMamuna".[10]
