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
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Not a single American. Way to go Bill Goichi!
The clown in the picture looks like Goichi. All clown and nothing else…
Sophia makes scary Goichi pictures…
Why Zhao Xue is not in that list, I wonder?
I played with one of the newest GMs on the list, Dmitry Chuprov, in Russian junior championship. He won that tournament with a fantastic result, something like 8 out of 9. That was 13 years ago, so I was sure that he is a GM for a long time now…