Chess Titles Approved: Congrats if you Made the List!

Hello chess blog friends, the world chess body FIDE has published the list of titles approved by the 4th quarter Presidential Board meeting held in Sochi, RUS on 7-10 November 2014. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand. There are quite a few new arbiters from Iraq and lots of titled players from... yes, you guessed it right... from Russia! Congratulations everyone.




GM
Lorenzini, Martin ARG
Obregon, Andres Carlos ARG
Ju, Wenjun CHN
Gonzalez Acosta, Bernal CRC
Hawkins, Jonathan ENG
Pavlidis, Antonios GRE
Idani, Pouya IRI
Pakleza, Zbigniuew POL
Sivuk, Vitaly UKR
Nguyen, Duc Hoa USA

WGM
Mammadzada, Gunay AZE
Kulon, Klaudia POL

IM
Petrosyan, Manuel ARM
Petrosyan, Tigran S. ARM
Preotu, Razvan CAN
Guo, Qi CHN
Ma, Zhonghan CHN
Kelires, Andreas CYP
Abel, Dennes GER
Raykhman, Alexander GER
Vertetics, Attila GER
Sagar, Shah IND
Nanjo, Ryosuke JPN
Meskovs, Nikita LAT
Gajek, Radoslaw POL
Deac, Bogdan-Daniel ROU
Chashchev, Sergey RUS
Khatoev, Eduard RUS
Kozionov, Kirill RUS
Moroz, Roman RUS
Musalov, Ruslan RUS
Petrov, Nikita RUS
Pezelj, Novak SRB
Radovanovic, Dusan SRB
Studer, Noel SUI
Johansson, Linus SWE
Shmeliov, Denis UKR
Liou, Yian USA
Viswanadha, Kesav USA

WIM
Narva, Mai EST
Tsolakidou, Stavroula GRE
Milovic, Aleksandra MNE
Stojanovic, Marija MNE

IA
Huergo, Juan Jose ARG
Kalantaryan, Norayr ARM
Vardanyan, Nune ARM
Diez Cabeza, Vicente ESP
Bayat, Shohreh IRI
Graham, Gerry IRL
Baldursson, Steinthor ISL
Bertagnolli, Gerhard ITA
Oyunchimeg, Genden MGL
Eliens, Arno NED
Ruben, Erik NED
Van Roon, Ton NED
Eriksen, Tom NOR
Milvang, Otto NOR
Hall, Craig NZL
Brozek, Lukasz POL
Du Randt, Jean RSA
Kuzin, Anton RUS
De San Vicente, Sabrina URU
Vibbert, Tracey USA
Banda, Aaron ZAM

FA
Afandiyev, Majid AZE
Jafarov, Mahir AZE
Mehtiyev, Sadig AZE
Murtuzov, Sohrab AZE
Castillo Garcia, Pau ESP
Martinez Escandell, Alfonso ESP
Pareja Lopez, Fransisco Jesus ESP
Kleifges, Matthias GER
Widmann, Volker GER
Barrientos, Alejandra HON
Debobrata, Das IND
Mali, Suraj suryakant IND
Pravin, Pantawane IND
Prem, Kumar G. IND
Shyam Sundar, T. IND
Susil, Kumar S. IND
Mohammadi, Sonia IRI
Pashanejati, Reza IRI
Shadin, Sepideh IRI
Birgisdottir, Ingibjorg ISL
Blass, Uri ISR
Ross, Oded ISR
Biancotti, Alessandro ITA
Held, Mario ITA
Cheong, Kok Love MAS
Kwan, Nam Seng Eddy MAS
Walenciak, Katarzyna POL
Iordache, Claudiu-Badea ROU
Volcinsche, Sebastian ROU
Goosen, Tinus RSA
Hugo, Madeleine RSA
Van Der Walt, Connie RSA
Van Wyngaard, Larissa RSA
Veldsman, Johannes RSA
Izraelyants, Karen RUS
Kaluga, Sergey RUS
Shukan, Vladimir RUS
Lee, Chien Earn SIN
Geffert, Anton SVK
Kucukkilinc, Harun TUR
Regan, Michael W. USA
Phelps, Matthew W. USA

IO
Llerins Bonet, Ricardo ESP
Cohen, Alon ISR
Noe, Claudio ITA
Perico, Gianvittorio ITA
AlTaher, Tarek Ali UAE

CONDITIONAL ON RATING
GM
Sevian, Samuel USA

IM
Videnova, Iva BUL
Aablig-Thomsen, Jakob DEN

WIM
Imnadze, Nato GEO
Blagojevic, Tijana MNE
Baymuratova, Sevara UZB
Gevorgyan, Irina UZB

CONDITIONAL ON INFO
IA
Hajiyev, Emin AZE
Dimitrijevic, Aleksandra BIH
Polendakova, Iliana BUL
Castillo, Nelson ESA
Jansen, Joost NED
Ihsan, Jawad PLE
Akin, Oguz Cem TUR

FA
Misini, Burhanudin ALB
Buitrago, Juan Carlos COL
Arghya, Arpan Parida IND
Biswajita, Mohanty IND
Afshar, Fatemah IRI
Armand, Saman IRI
Abdulkareem, Ismael Tawfeeq IRQ
Al-Hasnawi, Ali FarhanNasser IRQ
Ayad, Ismael Tawfeeq IRQ
Jamal Kadhum, Khalaf IRQ
Khalel, Ali Abdulkarem IRQ
Khudhair, Shuaib Adham IRQ
Maroof, Mohammad IRQ
Saad, Abdulhussein Hataf IRQ
Saad, Mohsin Hussein IRQ
Arnetta, Benedetto Pierro ITA
Mancin, Roberto ITA
Ungurs, Edgars LAT

Download the LIST of FA titles from Seminars approved by the 4th quarter PB 2014.

Download the LIST OF NEW TRAINERS' TITLES approved by the 4th quarter PB 2014.
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Congratulations for all New Chess Titles - April 2014 FIDE Rating List

Hi everyone,

FIDE has published the list of titles approved by the 1st quarter Presidential Board meeting held in Khanty-Mansiysk, RUS on 29 March - 1 April 2014. (April 2014 FIDE chess ratings)

GM 
Haddouche, Mohamed ALG
Aghasaryan, Robert ARM
Michiels, Bart BEL
Maghalashvili, Davit GEO
Nigalidze, Gaioz GEO
Dvirnyy, Danyyil ITA
Bok, Benjamin NED
Artemiev, Vladislav RUS
Mozharov, Mikhail RUS
Stukopin, Andrey RUS
Nosenko, Alexander UKR

WGM 
Abdumalik, Zhansaya KAZ

IM 
Harutyuniuan, Tigran K ARM
Platzgummer, Fabian AUT
Ziaziulkina, Nastassia BLR
Lin, Chen CHN
Teplyi, Igor DEN
Pile, Richard FRA
Valles, Manuel FRA
Aravindh, Chithambaram IND
Navin, Kanna T.U. IND
Kantans, Toms LAT
Grishchenko, Sergey RUS
Rasskazov, Vladimir RUS
Cabarkapa, Novak SRB
Jovanovic, Dusan D SRB
Zlatanovic, Boroljub SRB
Steel, Henry Robert RSA
Camacho Collados, Marcos ESP
Fenollar Jorda, Manuel ESP
Polyakov, Maxim UKR

IA 
Kenmure, Jammie AUS
Stead, Kerry AUS
Gimenez Canadas, Carlos ESP
Fiedler, Wolfgang GER
Strobl, Thomas GER
Balaraman, Subramanian IND
Palaniappan, P. IND
Pandit, Perm IND
Lagerman, Robert ISL
Klinova, Masha ISR
Kotsur, Pavel KAZ
Degregori, Luis PER
Marcial, Augusto PHI
Ivanov, Alexander Al. RUS
Myakutin, Valery I. RUS
Sharkov, Pavel RUS
Grosar, Aljosa SLO
Diviak, Ratislav SVK
Zidi, Abdullah TUN
Altun, Emin Yasa TUR
Sequera Gimenez, Ely Saul VEN

FA
Lerari, Said ALG
Chibnall, Alana AUS
Forace, Lee AUS
Huber, Christian AUT
Hajiyev, Emin AZE
Li, Shaomeng CHN
Xia, Qiong CHN
Lacmanovic, Stipe CRO
Valcovic, Kristian CRO
Herrera del Sol, Isbel CUB
Kudla, Richard CZE
Ugarte De Rueda, Antonio ESP
Feit, Jean-Luc FRA
Kikvidze, Inga GEO
Kuhn, Christian GER
Poetke, Dan-Peter GER
Wolf, Stefan GER
Christoforidis, Ioannis GRE
Siempos, Harilaos GRE
Siempos, Konstantinos GRE
Stamatopoulos, Christos GRE
Dhenagaran, B. IND
Rajesh, R. IND
Saini, Rashmi IND
Thanki, Hemal Karsanii IND
Vinothkumar, T. IND
Siva, Ramakrishnan IND
Baldursson, Steinthor ISL
Egorov, Evgeny KAZ
Borg, Geoffrey MLT
Aanstad, Magnus NOR
Murillo, Augustin PAN
Cybulski, Maciej POL
Maka-Polkowska, Magdalena POL
Bornheim, Michael RSA
Steyn, Lynette RSA
Bunbich, Vitaly RUS
Kulikov, Nikolay I. RUS
Magdalinskaya, Evgeniya RUS
Mestnikov, Semen RUS
Golubovic, Marko SRB
Radosavljevic, Nebojsa SRB
Stankovic, Miodrag SRB
Stojanovic, Nadezda SRB
Tisma, Ivan SRB
Paganini, Toni SUI
Studer, Jonas SUI
Vyparina, Matej SVK
Berg, Bo SWE
Gergeroglu, Yalcin TUR
Makarevich, Vladimir UKR
Garcia, Oscar USA
Kormick, Korey J. USA

IO
Masole, Vincent BOT
Katisenge, Keenese BOT
Lopez Rodriguez, Eduardo ESP
Iashvili, Akaki GEO
Reshef, Nir ISR
Manole, Vasile ROU
Steenkamp, Judy-Marie RSA
Bouaziz, Slim TUN
Roselli Mailhe, Bernardo URU

CONDITIONAL ON RTG

GM 
Ankit, R.Rajpara IND
Boruchovsky, Avital ISR
Troff, Kayden W USA
Yang, Darwin USA
Vakhidov, Jahongir UZB

IM 
Arabidze, Meri GEO
Kathmale, Sameer IND
Abrahamyan, Tatev USA

WIM 
Frayna, Janelle Mae PHI

CONDITIONAL ON INFO
IA 
Ogando Gonzalez, Francisco J. ESP
Langland, Thomas P. USA

FA 
Faraliana, Annissa INA
Luna, Riasti INA
Ali, Ebraheem JOR
Duarez Facho, Luis Alberto PER
Alacaba, Onur TUR
Horodyskyi, Oleh UKR
Kireev, Andrey UKR
Martynkov, Oleksandr UKR

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Fide Chess Title Norms: Deadline Extended to 31 July 2013

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Hi everyone, 

Here's an important Fide notification for chess players. Due to move of offices and upgrading of computers and technical software and hardware in the past 20 years, it has been an onerous task to verify norms achieved from old tournaments based on the then prevailing title regulations when the tournaments took place. Instead of tracking old regulations and old tournament results whenever an application is received, the QC recommended that norms achieved prior to 1st July 2005 be registered before 31st July 2013. Titles (FM/WFM/CM/WCM) achieved through a published rating or from an Olympiad result prior to 1st July 2005, must also be registered before 31st July 2013. Failing which, such norms or title claims will be considered to have expired on 31st July 2013. In addition with readily available information from the recent years, the QC hopes to move towards automation of title awards as soon as possible. The PB approved the recommendation of the QC.

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