Darwin Yang officially an IM

Titles awarded at the FIDE Presidential Board
The FIDE family increases with 21 GMs, 50 IMs, 9 WGMs, and 10 WIMs

FIDE has awarded titles at the Presidential Board Meeting in Al Ain. The family increases with 21 GMs, 50 IMs, 9 WGMs, and 10 WIMs. Among them are two commentators of Chessdom.com – GM Alexander Ipatov and WGM Iva Videnova.

To celebrate the title, GM Ipatov will be joining for live commentary of Sigeman & Co and Bazna Kings 2011.

GM
CHN Xiu, Deshun
COL Barrientos, Sergio
CRO Martinovic, Sasa
CUB Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo
CZE Petr, Martin
ESP Ipatov, Alexander
ESP Perez Candelario, Manuel
ESP Vila Gazquez, Xavier
FRA Wirig, Anthony
GRE Kapnisis, Spyridon
IRI Golizadeh, Asghar
NED Brandenburg, Daan
PHI Sadorra, Julio Catalino
RUS Danin, Alexandre
RUS Dubov, Daniil
RUS Fedoseev, Vladimir
RUS Kosintseva, Nadezhda
SRB Pap, Misa
SVK Michalik, Peter
UKR Firman, Nazar
USA Shankland, Samuel L

IM
ARG Barrionuevo, Pablo
ARG Blit, Jacques
ARG Rodi, Luis Ernesto
ARM Grigoryan, Karen H.
BUL Enchev, Ivajlo
CHI Valdes Escobar, Alvaro
CHN Lu, Shanglei
CHN Shen, Siyuan
CHN Wang, Chen
COL Gallego Alcaraz, Andres Felipe
CRO Mukic, Josko
ENG Zhou, Yang-Fan
ESP Espinosa Aranda, Angel
ESP Forcen Esteban, Daniel
ESP Lorenzo De La Riva, Lazaro
FRA Genzling, Alain
FRA Guilleux, Fabien
GER Berger, Steve
GER Carlstedt, Jonathan
GER Grimberg, Boris
GER Markgraf, Alexander
GER Poetsch, Hagen
GER Tereick, Benjamin
GER Wichmann, Cliff
HUN Csonka, Attila Istvan
IND Shivananda, B.S.
IRI Abbasifar, Hasan
IRI Sharbaf, Mohsen
IRL Astaneh Lopez, Alex
ITA Aranovitch, Emiliano
ITA Stella, Andrea
LAT Sveshnikov, Vladimir
MGL Gundavaa, Bayarsaikhan
NOR Urkedal, Frode
POL Szablowski, Pawel
ROU Baratosi, Daniel
ROU Dragomirescu, Robin-Alexandru
RUS Biriukov, Ilja
RUS Gunina, Valentina
RUS Ozolin, Maxim
RUS Savina, Anastasia
RUS Ulanov, Alexandr
SRB Nestorovic, Lazar
UKR Biriukov, Nikolai
UKR Klyuner, Vyacheslav
UKR Sivuk, Vitaly
USA Holt, Conrad
USA Yang, Darwin
VIE Nguyen, Duc Hoa

WGM
BUL Nikolova, Adriana
BUL Videnova, Iva
CHN Guo, Qi
COL Ortiz, Nadya Karolina
CUB Ordaz Valdes, Lisandra Teresa
GEO Tsatsalashvili, Keti
HUN Schneider, Veronika
USA Abrahamyan, Tatev
VIE Pham, Le Thao Nguyen

WIM
ARM Hairapetian, Anna
ESP Vega Gutierrez, Belinda
IRI Hakimifard, Ghazal
ISR Efroimski, Marsel
ISR Porat, Maya
PHI Camacho, Chardine Cheradee
PHI Perena, Catherine
ROU Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca
RUS Bezgodova, Maria
SRB Djukic, Sandra

Conditional GM
AUS Xie, George Wendi
NOR Hansen, Torbjorn Ringdal
RUS Gorovykh, Eduard

IM
AUS Rej, Tomek
BIH Kadric, Denis
GEO Guramishvili, Sopiko
IRI Ahmadinia, E.
MNE Pajkovic, Vladimir
NED Hommeles, Theo
NED Van Assendelft, Floris
NOR Getz, Nicolai
RUS Antipov, Mikhail Al.
RUS Oparin, Grigoriy
RUS Smirnov, Vladimir
USA Kiewra, Keaton F.
UZB Vakhidov, Jahongir

WIM
RUS Kovpak, Anastasiya
RUS Miednikova, Swietlana