Sunday, March 30, 2008

World's Newest Grandmasters















Grandmaster titles awarded at the Presidential Board Meeting in Istanbul, TUR

Grandmaster

Country Name

BUL Iotov, Valentin
CHN Wen, Yang
GER Holzke, Frank
RUS Chuprov, Dmitry
RUS Deviatkin, Andrey
RUS Maslak, Konstantin
RUS Vokarev, Sergey
UKR Vovk, Yury

Conditional on rating - Grandmaster

ARM Harutjunyan, Gevorg
AUS Zhao, Zong-Yuan
AZE Safarli, Eltaj
ENG Williams, Simon K
ESP Salgado Lopez, Ivan
EST Liiva, Riho
PHI Gonzales, Jayson
RUS Ivanov, Alexander Al.

Woman Grandmaster

CHN Huang, Qian
HUN Rudolf, Anna
POL Krupa, Monika
RUS Fatianova, Tatiana

Philippines is targeting to produce five GMs for 2008. Jayson Gonzales would most likely to be the first this year. Best of luck to all Filipino aspiring Grandmasters!

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