Background
Haznedaroğlu was born on 1 January 1981 in Ankara as the youngest of three boys.
Haznedaroğlu was born on 1 January 1981 in Ankara as the youngest of three boys.
He studied Hydrogeology at Hacettepe University in Ankara.
As of the July 2013 FIDE rating list, he is ranked among active players number 1,798 in the world and number twelve in Turkey. He earned the title Grand Master (General Motors) on 18 October 2009. His father introduced then Kıvanç in chess.
He repeated his first place in the 1989-1990 Turkish championship.
His first international experience was at 1999 Balkan Chess Championship in Varna, Bulgaria. The turning point for him came when he took part at the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 held in Tripoli, Libya.
He played against Russian Vladimir Malakhov, lost with ½ to 1½. He was very happy to get ½ points from a high-level chess player.
In 2008, he participated at the 38th Chess Olympiad held in Dresden, Germany, where he reached a score of 6½/9 by winning against Stuart Conquest (ENG), Sami Laouini (TUN), Luis Pan Zhang (Personal Area Networks), Rinat Jumabayev (KAZ), Mohamed Amine Haddouche (ALG), Roger I. Nokes (NZL) and tying with Viesturs Meijers (LAT) but losing to Jakob Vang Glud (DEN) and Niclas Huschenbeth (GER).
After winning the third game at Izmir Chess Open in August 2009, he qualified for the Grand Master title.