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June 2011 - Congrats to New Grandmasters

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Saturday, 11 June 2011
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Nadezhda Kosintseva became the 25th woman in the history of chess to become a GM.
Now both sisters have the highest chess title


The 2nd quarter Presidential Board-2011 was record-breaking in terms of the number of new title-holders. Here are the most eminent ones (GMs and WGMs):

        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

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

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

The full list is available here.

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