Mihail Marin

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Mihail Marin (born 21 April 1965) is a Romanian chess Grandmaster. As of March 2008, his FIDE rating is 2551. Marin's first major success in international chess was in qualifying for the Interzonal in 1987. He has won the Romanian Championship twice and has played in the Chess Olympiads seven times. 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-10 9197600431, ISBN-13 978-9197600439), and A Spanish Opening Repertoire for Black (Quality Chess, 2007, ISBN-10: 9197600504, ISBN-13 978-9197600507). Learn from the Legends was named the 2005 ChessCafe Book of the Year, and was nominated for the 2004 BCF Book of the Year.^[1] International Master Secrets of Chess Defence was nominated for the 2003 ChessCafe Book of the Year.^[2] Jeremy Silman, himself a prize-winning author of chess books, has called Marin "one of the world's finest chess writers"^[3] and wrote of Learn from the Legends, "I can't recall having seen a better book in the last two decades".^[4]

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• FIDE rating card for Mihail Marin
• Mihail Marin at ChessGames.com
• Chess Puzzles from the Games of Mihail Marin
• Interview with Mihail Marin