Martin Petrov (chess player)

Martin Petrov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster.

Martin Petrov

Personal information
Born	(2000-10-03) October 3, 2000 (age 25) Sofia, Bulgaria
Chess career
Country	Bulgaria
Title	Grandmaster (2022)[1]
FIDE rating	2540 (October 2025)
Peak rating	2556 (April 2022)

Chess career

In January 2019, he tied for first place with Daniel Gormally, Oleg Korneev, Šarūnas Šulskis, Alexander Cherniaev, and Conor Murphy at the 94th Hastings Congress.^[2]

In March 2020, he won the Bulgarian Chess Championship, during which he also defeated grandmasters Momchil Nikolov and Krasimir Rusev.^[3]

In June 2022, he finished in third place at the Targu Mures Open after having the best tiebreak score of six players who initially tied for third.^[4]

In February 2023, he finished in fourth place in the Bulgarian Chess Championship after having tied for second place with Nurgyul Salimova and Momchil Petkov.^[5]