Dragan Šolak
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Dragan Šolak, Kavala 2011
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| Country | Serbia Turkey |
| Born | March 30, 1980 Vrbas, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2633 (June 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2639 (July 2014) |
Dragan Šolak (Serbian: Драган Шолак; born 30 March 1980, in Vrbas) is a Serbian-Turkish chess grandmaster.
In 2002 he tied for 1st–3rd with Vladimir Tukmakov and Andrei Sokolov in the Hilton Open in Basel[1] and tied for 3rd–4th with Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska in the Casino Open in Interlaken.[2] In 2011 he tied for 3rd–7th with Sergey Volkov, Ioannis Nikolaidis, Konstantine Shanava and Fernando Peralta in the 1st Isthmia International Tournament.[3]
He played for the Serbian national team in the Chess Olympiads of 2000, 2004, 2008[4] and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1999, 2005, 2009 and 2011.[5]
In December 2011 he transferred to the Turkish Chess Federation.[6] Šolak represented Turkey at the Chess Olympiads of 2012, 2014[4] and at the European Team Championship of 2013.[5] He won the Turkish Chess Championship in 2012 and 2013.
Šolak finished equal second (fourth on tiebreak) at the European Individual Chess Championship of 2014 scoring 8 points out of 11 and this result enabled him to qualify for the 2015 Chess World Cup.[7] In 2015 he won the 17th Dubai Open, edging out other five grandmasters on tiebreak, after all finished on 7/9 points.[8] At the Chess World Cup 2015 he lost in the first round to Anton Korobov and therefore was eliminated from the competition.
His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "RuznaMamuna".[9]
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dragan Šolak. |
- Dragan Šolak player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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