Cemil Can Ali Marandi (born 17 January 1998) is a Turkish chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster in 2017.
Cemil Can Ali Marandi repeatedly participated in European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships, where he set a peculiar record, winning five times European Youth Chess Championships in five different age groups: Cemil Can Ali Marandi participated in the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiads four times (2009–2010, 2013–2014), where he won bronze medal in team scoring (2014).
[7] Also he participated in the European Boys' U18 Team Chess Championship four times (2011, 2014–2016), where he won gold (2014) and silver (2011) medals in team scoring, as well as gold (2014) medal in individual scoring.
[8] Cemil Can Ali Marandi played for Turkey 2 in the Chess Olympiad:[9] Cemil Can Ali Marandi played for Turkey in the European Team Chess Championship:[10] In 2019, Cemil Can Ali Marandi won the US Thanksgiving Open tied with Illia Nyzhnyk and Peter Prohaszka.
[14] In December 2021, Ali Marandi tied for 1st place at the 2021 Charlotte Open alongside Grandmasters Titas Stremavičius, Tanguy Ringoir, Robby Kevlishvili, Akshat Chandra, and then-IM Christopher Yoo.