FIDE adds 2 GMs, 4 WGMs, 19 IMs, and 2 WIMs
FIDE has approved new titles at the 2nd quarter Presidential Board held in Elista, RUS from 5 to 7 of April 2012. Among them are 2 GMs, 4 WGMs, 19 IMs, and 2 WIMs.
More news from the PB in Elista are here, including the Caissa Award for Women’s Chess for Hou Yifan , a report on the FIDE World Championship Match in Moscow in May 2011, and a conformation that the FIDE Candidates Tournament would be held in London in March 2013.
| 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 |
FIDE has also approved titles conditional on rating:
| CONDITIONAL ON RTG | |||
| GM | |||
| Bajarani, Ulvi | AZE | ||
IM |
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| Schuh, Dirk | GER | ||
| Matuszewski, Michal | POL | ||
| Syrchikov, Alexander | RUS | ||
| Battey, Alexander | USA | ||
| Wang, Philip Xiao | USA | ||
WGM |
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| Umudova, Nargiz | AZE | ||
| Papp, Petra | HUN | ||
| Kharmunova, Nadezhda | RUS |
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