Bela Khotenashvili became the 4th female GM in her country after Gapridashvili, Chiburdanidze, and Dzagnidze.

Warda Aulie Medina became the 2nd player in Indonesia to earn the WGM title. The first was Irine Kharisma Sukandar who also just fulfilled her norms for IM title. She just needs to raise her FIDE rating to 2400 to have the title confirmed.

Bryan Smith of the US is now an official GM after trying hard for several years.

GM

Khotenashvili, Bela GEO (F)
Hausrath, Daniel GER
Debashis, Das IND
Eliseev, Urii RUS
Smith, Bryan G. USA

WGM

Medina, Warda Aulia INA
Worek, Joanna POL

IM

Barrero Garcia, Carlos ESP
Cotonnec, Melkior FRA
Becking, Stephan GER
Girish, A. Koushik IND
Abdyjapar, Asyl KGZ
Laurusas, Tomas LTU
Goudriaan, Etienne NED
Malakhov, Igor RUS
Vavulin, Maksim RUS
Baikovsky, Yuriy UKR
Kurayan, Ruslan UKR

WIM

Raghavi, N. IND

CONDITIONAL ON RTG

IM

Aghasiyev, Kamal AZE
Sukandar, Irine Kharisma INA (F)
Kojima, Shinya JPN

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