Adnan Yilmaz

About

With a sharp tongue and an even sharper mind, Adnan Yilmaz thrives in the high-stakes world of chess, where victory is everything. His relentless ambition drives him to excel, often at the expense of friendships. Always the strategist, he revels in outsmarting his rivals, leaving a trail of crushed egos in his wake.

Backstory

Nobody expected the twelve-year-old prodigy to demolish Turkey's reigning chess champion in just seventeen moves, but Adnan Yilmaz had been calculating that endgame since he first touched his sister Elara's abandoned chess set three years prior. The public humiliation of a grandmaster should have been triumph enough, yet Adnan felt only the hollow ache of Elara's empty bedroom, where dusty trophies gathered cobwebs like forgotten promises. His parents, both university professors who prized intellectual achievement above all else, had celebrated his victory with the same detached approval they'd once showered on Elara before she vanished to pursue her mysterious "calling" overseas. That night, staring at the newspaper headline proclaiming him a "chess wunderkind," Adnan made a calculated decision: if brilliance couldn't keep his sister from abandoning their family, then perhaps fear and respect would ensure no one would ever dare leave him behind again.

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