A. Enkhtuul becomes Grandmaster Mongolian chess player A.Enkhtuul, 20, will be officially certified as Grandmaster during the 85th FIDE Congress in Tromso, Norway from August 4 to 15. She will become the third Mongolian grandmaster. There were only two...
Vietnam has 5th WGM
Vietnam has fifth International Women’s Grand Master VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Mai Hung has become the fifth woman from Viet Nam to be awarded the International Women’s Grandmaster (IWGM) title. The Bac Giang Province-born master has completed the...
Indonesia’s Youngest WGM
Medina Warda Aulia is Indonesia’s youngest ever Women Grandmaster, achieving her third and final norm at the ongoing World Junior Championship. Article by Peter Long Last time around she almost won the championship, ultimately finishing fourth on tie-break and...
Aiming for WGM title
Medina aims for grandmaster title at IOCC Musthofid, The Jakarta Post | Sports | Fri, October 05 2012, 8:48 AM Local teen chess prodigy, Medina Warda Aulia, is looking to continue her impressive run as she bids to become...
Many norms earned at the Chess Olympiad
Norms earned so far (women): No. Name Team FED After Rd. Pts. Games New Title 1 WFM Baciu, Diana Moldova MDA 10 5 9 WIM 2 Frayna, Janelle Mae Philippines PHI 9 6 9 WIM 3 WFM Gevorgyan, Irina...
Local teen prodigy moves step closer to WGM title
Local teen prodigy moves step closer to WGM titleMusthofid, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sports |Mon, August 27 2012, 5:31 AM Local teen prodigy Medina Warda Aulia, 14, will be heading to the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey, where...
Being Chess World’s Youngest (W) Grandmaster
June 27, 2012 Kazakhstan’s chess body has posited a case for making a 12-year-old Kazakh schoolgirl the youngest female grandmaster in the world. Zhansaya Abdimalik, sporting a baseball cap and the composure of a veteran, was introduced to the...
Zhansaya Abdumalik becomes WGM at the age of 12
The young chess talent from Kazakhstan Zhansaya Abdumalik completed her final norm for Women Grandmaster. With this achievement she has all necessary requirements for the WGM title at age of 12 years 5 months and 15 days, making her...
Aleksandra Goryachkina becomes WGM at 13
Aleksandra Goryachkina, born in 1998, has just conquered her last norm for WGM title at the European Women Chess Championship. The young Russian girl finished at the amazing 40th place with 6,0/11, competing with a large number of GMs...
Abrahamyan awarded WGM title
Tatev Abrahamyan is GrandmasterBy Times.am at 8 June, 2011, 1:40 pm FIDE Presidential Board has awarded the title of women’s grandmaster to 23-year-old Armenian chess player Tatev Abrahamyan (USA) at the meeting which was held in Al Ain, UAE,...