The Bilkent University Chess Team successfully represented the university and T\u00fcrkiye in the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall 2025, organized in cooperation with Chess.com and PlayVS, as the only university from T\u00fcrkiye to participate in the competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The competition, held across 25 different divisions with universities from around the world, concluded after seven weeks of league-format matches, followed by playoff rounds. All matches were played online via the Chess.com platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the same season, Bilkent University achieved two championship titles and one podium finish, marking a significant international success. With these results, Bilkent University became the first and only university from T\u00fcrkiye to win a championship in the Collegiate Chess League. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Team A (Division 3):<\/strong> Kaan Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m (Captain), Yusuf Eren Kavri, Efe Metehan Yavuz, Cemil Furkan Derbentli <\/p>\n\n\n\n Team B (Division 6):<\/strong> Bartu \u015eahbaz, Umut Utku E\u015fahince, Sefa U\u011fur, H\u00fcseyin Ege Olcay <\/p>\n\n\n\n Team C (Division 14): <\/strong>Vadi Doruk Potur, Arda K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7, Ali Ayhan Havatoglu, \u00c7\u0131nar Elveren, Ahmet Burak K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7kaya <\/p>\n\n\n\n Team F (Division 14): <\/strong>Alpay G\u00fcner, Ahmed Sencer Alabacak, Yusuf K\u0131l\u0131n\u00e7, Yakup Bu\u011fra Y\u0131lmaz <\/p>\n\n\n\n Teams D and E:<\/strong> Afruzbek Abduvakhobov, Ramazan G\u00f6rkem \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, Ahmet Yi\u011fit \u00d6zdemir, Ali Gurbanov, Muhammed Cengiz, Ahmet Canpolat, Abdurrahim G\u00f6kda\u011f, Ege Nuri Perdeci, Yank\u0131 T\u00fcrkmayal\u0131 <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bilkent University Chess Team successfully represented the university and T\u00fcrkiye in the Collegiate Chess League (CCL) Fall 2025, organized in cooperation with Chess.com and PlayVS, as the only university from T\u00fcrkiye to participate in the competition. The competition, held across 25 different divisions with universities from around the world, concluded after seven weeks of league-format matches, followed by playoff rounds. All matches[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,213,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10369,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339\/revisions\/10369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}