Mihail Marin

Who is Mihail Marin?

Mihail Marin is a Romanian chess Grandmaster. As of July 2011, his FIDE rating is 2548. Marin's first major success in international chess was in qualifying for the Interzonal in 1987. He has won three Romanian Championships and has played in the Chess Olympiads ten times, winning a bronze individual medal in 1988. For several years he was editor of the magazine Chess Extrapress.

Marin has written a number of well-received books: Secrets of Chess Defence, Learn from the Legends: Chess Champions at Their Best, Secrets of Attacking Chess, Beating the Open Games, A Spanish Opening Repertoire for Black and Reggio Emilia 2007/2008. Learn from the Legends was named the 2005 ChessCafe Book of the Year, and was nominated for the 2004 BCF Book of the Year. International Master Secrets of Chess Defence was nominated for the 2003 ChessCafe Book of the Year. Jeremy Silman, himself a prize-winning author of chess books, has called Marin "one of the world's finest chess writers" and wrote of Learn from the Legends, "I can't recall having seen a better book in the last two decades".