Tags: Chess Player.
Gülümser Öney née Yılmaz (born 1956) is a Bulgarian born Turkish female chess player. She is Turkey’s most successful chess player being the eleven times national champion seven times consecutively from 1973.Gülümser was born in Pleven Bulgaria to Turkish parents. Her father Lütfi Yılmaz was a teacher and chess player. She learnt to play chess by her father. She became Bulgarian youth champion and captain of her high school’s chess club.