FIDE publishes the list of titles approved by the 1st quarter Presidential Board meeting held in Moscow, Russia on 28-29 March 2016.
| GM | |||||
| Illingworth, Max | AUS | ||||
| Andersen, Mads | DEN | ||||
| Forcen Esteban, Daniel | ESP | ||||
| Dourerassou, Jonathan | FRA | ||||
| Ghosh, Diptayan | IND | ||||
| Tari, Aryan | NOR | ||||
| Urkedal, Frode | NOR | ||||
| Predke, Alexandr | RUS | ||||
| Pacher, Milan | SVK | ||||
| Smith, Axel | SWE | ||||
| WGM | |||||
| Mikadze, Miranda | GEO | ||||
| Tsolakidou, Stavroula | GRE | ||||
| IM | |||||
| Shahinyan, David | ARM | ||||
| Dragnev, Valentin | AUT | ||||
| Menezes, Christoph | AUT | ||||
| Sadikhov, Ulv | AZE | ||||
| Petrov, Martin | BUL | ||||
| Petrov, Vladimir Sergeev | BUL | ||||
| Alvarado Diaz, Alejandro | ESP | ||||
| Fernandez Garcia, Jose Miguel | ESP | ||||
| Barbot, Pierre | FRA | ||||
| Roy, Prantik | IND | ||||
| Siva, Mahadevan | IND | ||||
| Mindlin, Alon | ISR | ||||
| Basso, Pier Luigi | ITA | ||||
| Hauge, Lars Oskar | NOR | ||||
| Nguyen, Piotr | POL | ||||
| Sabuk, Piotr | POL | ||||
| Gordievsky, Dmitry | RUS | ||||
| Radovanovic, Nikola | SRB | ||||
| Sagit, Rauan | SWE | ||||
| Burke, John M | USA | ||||
| Herman, Matthew J | USA | ||||
| Igonin, Temur | UZB | ||||
| Vokhidov, Shamsiddin | UZB | ||||
| WIM | |||||
| Mammadova, Narmin | AZE | ||||
| Heinemann, Josefine | GER | ||||
| Kiolbasa, Oliwia | POL | ||||
| Utiatskaja, Irina | RUS | ||||