Fide Releases Latest List of Chess Titles

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Hi everyone,

Here is the latest list of chess titles approved by the Fide at its meeting in Elista.

GM
Yu, Ruiyuan CHN
Batchuluun, Tsegmed MGL

WGM
Mammadova, Gulnar Marfat qizi AZE
Ziaziulkina, Nastassia BLR
Goryachkina, Aleksandra RUS
Ivakhinova, Inna RUS

IM
Baghdasaryan, Vahe ARM
Gabuzyan, Hovhannes ARM
Simonian, Tigran ARM
Tovmasian, Vardges ARM
Tao, Trevor AUS
Minhazuddin, Ahmed BAN
Geirnaert, Steven BEL
Ortega Amarelle, Mariano CUB
Sodoma, Jan CZE
Arribas Lopez, Angel ESP
Espineira Gonzalez, Diego ESP
Pardo Simon, David ESP
Bluebaum, Matthias GER
Koch, Thomas GER
Horvath, David HUN
Valsecchi, Alessio ITA
Artemiev, Vladislav RUS
Eliseev, Urii RUS
Csiba, Dominik SVK

WIM
Enkhtuul, Altanulzii MGL
Foisor, Mihaela-Veronica ROU

IA
Petkova, Veneta BUL
Lopez-Chavez Mariano, Barbara CUB
Elhal, Mohamed EGY
Hernandez, Gerard FRA
R K, Balagunashekaran IND
Thirukkalathy, Kuppuswamy IND
Boromangnaev, Batir RUS
Knezevic, Drago SRB
Smith, Russel TRI
Berzah, Halil Ibrahim TUR

FA
Velchev, Hristo BUL
Estrada Sandoval, Cristian CHI
Han, Yajun CHN
Moreno, Jose Eduardo COL
Pedersen, Hans Milter DEN
Holowczak, Alex ENG
Rudd, Jack ENG
P, Maran IND
Pandit, Prem IND
S, Ganesh Babu IND
Winston, G IND
Akalamkam, Ramakrishna IND
Abdul Wahalo, Najib MAS
Madhavan, Collin MAS
Mok, Tze Meng MAS
Wahiduddin, Khairunissa MAS
Susterman, Bela MDA
Ruben, Erik NED
Akalanka, Malith SRI

CONDITIONAL ON RTG
GM
Bajarani, Ulvi AZE
IM
Schuh, Dirk GER
Matuszewski, Michal POL
Syrchikov, Alexander RUS
Battey, Alexander USA
Wang, Philip Xiao USA
WGM
Umudova, Nargiz AZE
Papp, Petra HUN
Kharmunova, Nadezhda RUS

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Planet gets one more woman chess grandmaster!

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012


Hi everyone,


Fide has just released the list of chess titles approved for the quarter. Our congratulations to all. We are particularly delighted to have another woman join the ranks of grandmasters - Anna Muzychuk. Here is the main list.

GM
Gozzoli, Yannick FRA
Huschenbeth, Niclas GER
Lalith, Babu M.R. IND
Neiksans, Arturs LAT
Tomczak, Jacek POL
Domogaev, Sergey RUS
Muzychuk, Anna SLO
Sebenik, Matej SLO
Onischuk, Vladimir UKR

WGM
Ohme, Melanie GER
Severiukhina, Zoja RUS
Yildiz, Betul Cemre TUR
Chulivska, Vita UKR

IM
Heydarli, Kanan AZE
Kovalev, Vladislav BLR
Zeng, Chongsheng CHN
Martic, Zlatko CRO
Vukoje, Vladimir CRO
Bailet, Pierre FRA
Paikidze, Nazi GEO
Zarkua, Davit GEO
Bayer, Bernhard GER
Fiebig, Thomas GER
Wahono, Awam INA
Gretarsson, Hjorvar Steinn ISL
Petre, Nad-Titus ROU
Badmatsyrenov, Oleg RUS
Gritsenko, Andrey RUS
Kurukin, Dmitry RUS
Nozdrin, Alexander V RUS
Obolenskikh, Dmitry RUS
Pankov, German RUS
Yankovsky, Roman RUS
Indjic, Aleksandar SRB
Golubka, Petr UKR
Jones, Richard WLS

WIM
Pon, Nkrithika IND
Balaian, Alina RUS
Rakhmangulova, Anastasiya UKR

You can find more details about other chess titles, including those for arbiters, at the Fide news site.

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