Mihail Marin (born 21 April 1965) is a Romanian chess player and writer.

He has won three Romanian Championships[1] and has played in the Chess Olympiads ten times, winning a bronze individual medal in 1988.

In 2011 he tied for 2nd-7th with Julio Granda, Ivan Šarić, Aleksander Delchev, Maxim Turov and Pablo Almagro Llamas at the 31st Villa de Benasque Open.

[3] Secrets of Chess Defence was nominated for the 2003 ChessCafe Book of the Year.

[4] International Master Jeremy Silman, himself a prize-winning author of chess books, has called Marin "one of the world's finest chess writers"[5] and wrote of Learn from the Legends, "I can't recall having seen a better book in the last two decades".