Mihail Marin

Mihail Marin
Mihail Marin, 2008
Full name	Mihail Marin
Country	Romania
Born	(1965-04-21) April 21, 1965 (age 51)
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2539 (January 2017) (No. 413 on the March 2011 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating	2616 (September 2009)

Mihail Marin (born 21 April 1965) 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 (Gambit Publications, 2003, ), Learn from the Legends: Chess Champions at Their Best (Quality Chess, 2004, ), Secrets of Attacking Chess (Gambit Publications, 2005, ), Beating the Open Games (Quality Chess, 2007, , ), A Spanish Opening Repertoire for Black (Quality Chess, 2007, , ) and Reggio Emilia 2007/2008 (together with Yuri Garrett - Quality Chess, 2009, ). 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".