Titles Awarded to Chess Players at Dresden FIDE Congress

Both men and women were issued new chess titles at the 79th FIDE Congress in Dresden, Germany this November 16-26 and finalized. I congratulate all players in their achievements, even kava, GM-Elect Anton Kovalyov, who's history is known to TransWarp followers. For those curious, it's in the blog archives, but congrats to him at any rate.

Grandmaster titles awarded:

Country, Name

ARG Flores, Diego
ARG Kovalyov, Anton
ARG Valerga, Diego
ARM Melkumyan, Hrant
BUL Bojkov, Dejan
BUL Rusev, Krasimir
CHN Hou, Yifan *
CHN Zhou, Weigi
CRO Bosiocic, Marin
CRO Saric, Ivan
CUB Gonzales Vidal, Yuri
CUB Corrales Jimenes, Fidel
EGY El Gindy, Essam
FRA Cornette, Matthieu
FRA Thal, Abergel
GEO Dzagnidze, Nana *
GER Braun, Arik
GER Siebrecht, Sebastian
GRE Papadopoulos, Ioannis K.
HUN Berczes, David
IND Arun Prasad, S.
KAZ Ismagambetov, Anuar
PER Cordova, Emilio
PHI Gomez, John Paul
POL Socko, Monika *
RUS Klimov, Sergey
RUS Orlov, Andrey
RUS Sjugirov, Sanan
SLO Borisek, Jure
SRB Milanovic, Danilo
UKR Simantsev, Mikhail
USA Friedel, Joshua E.
* Women achieving "Men's" Grandmaster Title, noting this as you will see there is a separate Women's Grandmaster Title, with less requirements to meet. There were a select few, starting with GM Zsuzsa (Susan now) Polgar winning the title the conventional way, as Men would. Nona Gaprindashvili was awarded the Men's GM Title as a result of winning the 1977 Lone Pine Tournament, held in the US, in 1978. Then Maia Chiburdanidze beat Nona and two other women in 1984 to win the Women's World Championship and was thus awarded the Men's GM Title. So although, Susan was the 3rd the achieve the conventional GM title, she was the first to win it the same way the men win it. Then came Judit, but that's a whole different story! Precise ways Nona and Maia achieved their GM titles: source wikipedia.com

International Master Titles awarded:

Country, Name

ARG Della Morte, German
ARG Iermito, Sebastian
AUT Hangweyrer, Manfred
AUT Santos, Marcus Vinicius M.
BUL Milchev, Nikolay
BUL Serafimov, Tervel
CAN Quan, Zhe
CHN Liu, Qingnan
COL Uribe, Mauricio
CRO Martinovic, Sasa
CRO Sertic, Rudolf
CUB Gomez Garrido, Camilo
CZE Biolek, Richard Jr.
ENG D'Costa, Lorin AR
ESP Recuero Guerra, David
FRA Delorme, Axel
FRA Goldsztejn, Gildas
FRA Housieaux, David
FRA Nezar, Mustafa
FRA Roser, Kevin
GEO Benidze, David
GER Morawietz, Dieter
GER Pasalic, Mehmed
GER Spiess, Gunter
GER Wegerle, Joerg
HUN Balog, Imre
HUN Nemeth, Miklos
HUN Toth, Ervin
INA Purnama, Tirta Chandra
IND Arghyadip, Das
IND Bathay T. Muralikrishnan
IND Narayanan, Srinath
IRI Toufighi, Homayoon
ISR Bykhovsky, Anatoly
ISR Caspi, Israel
ISR Kostromin, Mikhail
ITA Zimina, Olga
KAZ Amanov, Zhanibek
LTU Beinoras, Mindaugas
LTU Vaznonis, Vytautas
MKD Pancevski, Filip
NED Bitalzadeh, Ali
NED Rothuis, Vincent
NED Wemmers, Xander
PER Cruz Sanchez, Cristhian
PHI Barbosa, Oliver
PHI Nolte, Rolando
POL Piorun, Kacper
RUS Kharous, Ernest
RUS Klimov, Anton
RUS Kuznetsov, Gennady
RUS Moskalenko, Alexander
RUS Yatsenko, Alexey
SUI Carron, Julien
SUI Vuilleumier, Alexandre
SVK Jurcik, Marian
SVK Michalik, Peter
SWE Blomqvist, Erik
SWE Grandelius, Nils
SWE Smith, Axel
UKR Ipatov, Alexander
UKR Muzychuk, Mariya
UKR Nyzhnyk, Illya
UKR Tuka, Oleg
USA Kaufman, Raymond

Women's Grandmaster Titles awarded:

Country, Name

CRO Stock, Lara
CUB Marrero Lopez, Yaniet
IND Swaminathan, Soumya
ROU Sandu, Mihaela

Womrn's International Master Titles awarded:

Country, Name

BUL Jordanova, Svetlana
BUL Nikolova, Adriana
BUL Raeva, Elitsa
CHN Xu, Tong
CZE Pertlova, Sona
FRA Congiu, Mathilde
GEO Danelia, Mariam
GER Hoolt, Sarah
HUN Domany, Zsofia
LTU Limontaite, Simona
RUS Vazirova, Karina
SVK Borosova, Zuzana
TUR Ozturk, Kubra
USA Melekhina, Alisa
USA Zenyuk, Iryna

Grandmaster Titles awarded (conditional on rating*)

Country, Name

ARG Lemos, Damian
ARM Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel
BUL Vasilev, Milen
FRA Libiszewski, Fabien
LTU Pileckis, Emilis
POL Swiercz, Dariusz
UKR Zherebukh, Yaroslav
ZAM Simutowe, Amon

*must achieve a rating of 2500, not sure if they can pass 2500 during a quarterly rating period, then drop below before the rating period ends and still achieve title. Say, achieve a 2506 rating during September, but fall to 2498 in the same month, end up rated 2498 in October list and still achieve the title. Hmn, seems if someone passed 2500 during the period, they would end up NOT playing other tournaments until the next rating list to make sure Title is achieved (Many countries pay a stipend to it's professional players based on titles), thus losing out on a possible tournament win and payday. Would have to delve into the deep recesses of FIDE rules to find out.

International Master Titles awarded (conditional on rating)

Country, Name
ARG Filgueira, Hernan
AUT Kreisl, Robert
BUL Berbatov, Kiprian
CZE Jasny, Stanislav
CZE Nemcova, Katerina
ENG Rudd, Jack
ISL Arngrimsson, Dagur
MAS Lim, Yee-Wenig
NED Slingerland, Fred
POL Leniart, Arkadiusz
USA Arnold, Marc

Women's Grandmaster Titles awarded (conditional on rating)

Country, Name

ROU Ionica, Iulia-Ionela

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