FIDE has published the list of titles approved by the 1st quarter Presidential Board held in Al Ain, UAE from 3 to 6 of February 2012.
The PB also confirmed that the 2012 Chess Olympiad and FIDE Congress will be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 27th August to 10th September.
The bids for the Candidates Matches were discussed, with a final decision to be made before 29th February, 2012.
A Committee was set up to present a final proposal on the chess project for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Titles:
GM
Gozzoli, Yannick FRA
Huschenbeth, Niclas GER
Lalith, Babu M.R. IND
Neiksans, Arturs LAT
Tomczak, Jacek POL
Domogaev, Sergey RUS
Muzychuk, Anna SLO
Sebenik, Matej SLO
Onischuk, Vladimir UKR
WGM
Ohme, Melanie GER
Severiukhina, Zoja RUS
Yildiz, Betul Cemre TUR
Chulivska, Vita UKR
IM
Heydarli, Kanan AZE
Kovalev, Vladislav BLR
Zeng, Chongsheng CHN
Martic, Zlatko CRO
Vukoje, Vladimir CRO
Bailet, Pierre FRA
Paikidze, Nazi GEO
Zarkua, Davit GEO
Bayer, Bernhard GER
Fiebig, Thomas GER
Wahono, Awam INA
Gretarsson, Hjorvar Steinn ISL
Petre, Nad-Titus ROU
Badmatsyrenov, Oleg RUS
Gritsenko, Andrey RUS
Kurukin, Dmitry RUS
Nozdrin, Alexander V RUS
Obolenskikh, Dmitry RUS
Pankov, German RUS
Yankovsky, Roman RUS
Indjic, Aleksandar SRB
Golubka, Petr UKR
Jones, Richard WLS
WIM
Pon, Nkrithika IND
Balaian, Alina RUS
Rakhmangulova, Anastasiya UKR
IO
Anderson-Smith, William AUS
Burgess, Shane AUS
Greenwood, Norman AUS
Hartland, Gerrit AUS
Parr, Peter AUS
Sandler, Leonid AUS
Sergiev, Stefan BUL
Velchev, Nikolay BUL
Lesic, Krunoslav CRO
Nadasi, Balazs HUN
Baltrunas, Arvydas LAT
Lavendelis, Egons LAT
Sakotic, Vladimir MNE
Sand, Morten NOR
Chojnicki, Zenon POL
Delega, Tomasz POL
Kusina, Jan POL
Moras, Jerzy POL
Pietraszewski, Jaroslaw POL
Pyda, Zbigniew POL
Siwik, Rafal POL
Sokolski, Aleksander POL
Szewczak, Andrzej POL
Akhmetov, Artiom RUS
Babikov, Ivan RUS
Filipenko, Vasiliy RUS
Kryukova, Irina RUS
Startsev, Vladimir RUS
Reginaldo Huix, Pere ESP
Katanic-Vujic, Petar SRB
Galperin, Leonid UKR
Prihodko, Alexander UKR
Atkins, Michael USA
Brady, Frank USA
Doyle, E S USA
Palatnik, Sam USA
Rogers, L Thad USA
Rust, Larry USA
Salinas, Luis USA
Smith, Patricia USA
Al-Taher, Hisham UAE
Hernandez Bermudez, Ulises Eduardo VEN
Khalifa Al-Hitmi QAT
Sultan bin Khalifa Al-Nehyan UAE
Dabilani Buthali BOT
Chu Bo CHN
Silvio Danailov BUL
Nizar Elhaj LBA
Nigel Freeman BER
Israel Gelfer ISR
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov RUS
Kurt Jungwirth AUT
Mohammed Kambuzia IRI
Boris Kutin SLO
Ilya Levitov RUS
Georgios Makropoulos GRE
Beatriz Marinello USA
Lakhdar Mazouz ALG
Lewis Ncube ZAM
D V Sundar IND
Jorge Vega GUA
David Jarrett ENG
Polina Tsedenova RUS
IA
Cengic, Semsudin BIH
Rodriguez Alvarez, Norbey COL
Sethuraman, B. T. IND
Bansod, Swanil IND
Prabhakar, Sakthi IND
Sjol, Henrik NOR
K. C., Umesh NEP
Knezevic, Ilija SRB
Pizurica, Ratko SRB
Karabay, Fahri TUR
Khazmin, Ruslan UKR
Clark, Wayne USA
FA
Goldenberg, Danny CAN
Simecek, Alexej CZE
Mokhtar, Moustafa EGY
Youssef, Ashraf EGY
Dijoux, Frederic FRA
Grall, Gwenole FRA
Hucy, Jean-Louis FRA
Lerat, Paul-Pascal FRA
Mimaud-Lacoste, Francis FRA
Lubis, Endar Sakti INA
Rasyidi, Achmad INA
Santriyono, Yusuf INA
Anandh Babu, V L IND
Arora, Yashpal IND
Beig, Saleem IND
Chitkara, Sandeep IND
Moree, Promodraj IND
Palaniappan, P IND
Somanathan A P, Athulan IND
Sriman, V. S. IND
Afkham-Ebrahimi, Payam IRI
Hosseinali, Mehdi IRI
Salari, Sharman IRI
Bertagnolli, Gerhard ITA
Eliens, Arno NED
Torres Baldeon, Jean Pierre PER
Sokolski, Alexander POL
Raikin, Leonid RUS
Vatlin, Alexandr RUS
Zhelnin, Yury RUS
Altun, Emin Yasa TUR
Demirci, Ulas TUR
Klinova, Masha UKR
Abdukhalikov, Abdukakhar UZB
Ballou, Kenneth USA
Gupta, Ankit USA
Reed, Boyd USA
Conditional on rating:
GM
Pruijssers, Roeland NED
IM
Brito, Luismar BRA
Kriebel, Tadeas CZE
Geske, Julian GER
Swayams, Mishra IND
Sadzikowski, Daniel POL
Denisov, Ivan RUS
Bortnik, Alexandr UKR
Kislik, Erik Andrew USA
WGM
Toma, Katarzyna POL
WIM
Nodirjanova, Nodira UZB
