Mert Erdoğdu was born in İzmit in 1979 and discovered chess as a student at Galatasaray High School. He became a FIDE Master in 2001 and an International Master in 2003, and in 2017 he earned the grandmaster title, becoming Turkey's 13th GM. His rating peaked at 2513 in 2010.
A pillar of the Turkish national team for a decade, he played at every Olympiad from 2000 to 2010. He won the 2016 Turkish Championship in Kocaeli as well as the 2nd Mediterranean Individual Championship.
Mert is also an experienced trainer: in 2018 FIDE appointed him coach of El Salvador's women's team at the Batumi Olympiad. Within our project he coached Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş intensively, discovered Luca Protopopescu, has worked with Bodhana Sivanandan and Marc Llari, and led the July 2026 training camp in Marseille.
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