Aryan Tari
The 1st quarter Presidential Board meeting of FIDE, held in Moscow on 28-29 March, has approved a long list of newly titled players. Among them, the chess family welcomes 10 new Grandmasters from nine countries. Norway celebrates two new GMs – Aryan Tari and Frode Urkedal. Australia’s new Grandmaster is the 2014 National Champion Max Illingworth. The other players on the list are Mads Andersen (Denmark, born 1995), Alexandr Predke (Russia, 1994), Milan Pacher (Slovakia, 1990), Axel Smith (Sweden, 1986), Diptayan Ghosh (India, 1998), Jonathan Dourerassou (France, 1989), Daniel Forcen Esteban (Spain, 1994).
Two women were awarded the WGM title – Miranda Mikadze from Georgia, who is currently competing in the Georgian national championship and the young hope of Greek chess Stavroula Tsolakidou
Here is a full list of all titles awarded by FIDE at the Presidential Board.
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
The number of official arbiters and organizers has also increased by a considerable amount. Here is the full list from Moscow.
| IA | |||||
| Huber, Christian | AUT | ||||
| Grgic, Ivan | BIH | ||||
| Einhorn, Marcelo | BRA | ||||
| Iliev, Dimitar | BUL | ||||
| Castro, Solano Mauricio | CRC | ||||
| Lesic, Krunoslav | CRO | ||||
| Almansa Martin, Miguel A. | ESP | ||||
| Chalmeta Ugas, Jordi | ESP | ||||
| Perez Trapero, Antonio | ESP | ||||
| Kasela, Sten | EST | ||||
| Gerontopoulos, Prodromos | GRE | ||||
| Balakrishna, Ramanathan | IND | ||||
| Biju, Raj S. | IND | ||||
| Hariharan, Venkatachalam | IND | ||||
| Kapil, Saxena | IND | ||||
| Al Yhya, Dhamir Jabar Mossa | IRQ | ||||
| Hussein, Ali Hadi | IRQ | ||||
| Maina, Purity | KEN | ||||
| Mkumbwa, Gilton | MAW | ||||
| Chibikova, Irina | RUS | ||||
| Ilchenko, Nadezhda | RUS | ||||
| Magdalinskaya, Evgeniya | RUS | ||||
| Vashurin, Artur | RUS | ||||
| Wikander, Jan | SWE | ||||
| Birgisdottir, Ingibjorg | ISL | ||||
| FA | |||||
| Charef Khodia, Djamel | ALG | ||||
| Haddou, Nadjib | ALG | ||||
| Nair, Samira | ALG | ||||
| Zighemi, Shahenaz Kenza | ALG | ||||
| Del Giudice, Juan Eduardo | ARG | ||||
| Echeverria, Nestor | ARG | ||||
| Luna, Ricardo Roberto | ARG | ||||
| Zuccala, Christopher | AUS | ||||
| Huseynova, Shirmaya Huseyn | AZE | ||||
| Miskic, Sejfudin | BIH | ||||
| Poley, Vladimir | BLR | ||||
| Strelets, Igor | BLR | ||||
| Chiu, Henry | CAN | ||||
| Angulo Cubero, Oscar | CRC | ||||
| Barrios Zamora, Carlos | CRC | ||||
| Bandur, Josip | CRO | ||||
| Cooper, Lawrence H. | ENG | ||||
| Dickinson, Tim R. | ENG | ||||
| Arriazu Dominguez, Ivan | ESP | ||||
| Corbi Marti, Joaquin | ESP | ||||
| Cubero Ferreiro, Rodrigo | ESP | ||||
| Fernandez Calabuiq, Manuel | ESP | ||||
| Garcia Boix, Raul | ESP | ||||
| Gonzalez Gandara, David | ESP | ||||
| Jubeiras Sequra, Santiago | ESP | ||||
| Martinez Fernandez, Silveiro | ESP | ||||
| Mimbela Lopez, Luia | ESP | ||||
| Montes De Santiago, Fernando | ESP | ||||
| Rodriguez Lopez, Evaristo | ESP | ||||
| Giua, Stephanie | FRA | ||||
| Martin, Yvon | FRA | ||||
| Kaeck, Ralf | GER | ||||
| Mutschelknaus, Yves | GER | ||||
| Pernpeinter, Simon | GER | ||||
| Schneider, Michael | GER | ||||
| Szudra, Heinz Werner | GER | ||||
| Erdelyi, Adam | HUN | ||||
| Abbas, Abdul Zahra Abbas | IRQ | ||||
| Ahmed, Attiyah Abdullah | IRQ | ||||
| Aziz, Majeed Al-Rufaye | IRQ | ||||
| Hasa, Abd Al Jabbar | IRQ | ||||
| Hussein, Kadhim Hasan | IRQ | ||||
| Jassim,Hussein Saeed | IRQ | ||||
| Majid, Aziz Abd | IRQ | ||||
| Mazin, Adham Tawfeeq | IRQ | ||||
| Mfewq, Haider Ahmed | IRQ | ||||
| Ramzi, Khudhaer | IRQ | ||||
| Wahab, Muneer Yahya | IRQ | ||||
| Maack, Kjartan | ISL | ||||
| Vigfusson, Vigfus | ISL | ||||
| Frank, Haggai | ISR | ||||
| Sade, Liat | ISR | ||||
| Akhrass, Roland | LIB | ||||
| Ghnatios, Ralph | LIB | ||||
| Corotcova, Anastasia | MDA | ||||
| Skjelstad, Erling | NOR | ||||
| Castaneda, Carlomario | PER | ||||
| Cuellar, Ulises | PER | ||||
| Tacuche, Fernando | PER | ||||
| Samoude, Ahmad | PLE | ||||
| Dombi, Rudolf | ROU | ||||
| Calitz, Martha | RSA | ||||
| Shirjaev, Alexandr | RUS | ||||
| Somkin, Evgeni | RUS | ||||
| Cirjanic, Velibor | SRB | ||||
| Lukic, Igor M | SRB | ||||
| Milosevic, Petar V | SRB | ||||
| Franzen, Thomas | SWE | ||||
| Johansson, Daniel | SWE | ||||
| Pitirotjirathon, Jirapak | THA | ||||
| Alpyuruk, Mehmet Salim | TUR | ||||
| IO | |||||
| Holowczak, Alex R | ENG | ||||
| Garcia Castro, Pablo | ESP | ||||
| Parayre Soquero, Jordi | ESP | ||||
| Turlej, Lukasz | POL | ||||
| Grivtsov, Andrey | RUS | ||||
| Sivokonenko, Ekaterina | RUS | ||||
| Sotsky, Alexander | RUS | ||||
