Latest Approved FIDE Titles
At the recent FIDE Presidential Board meeting held in Istanbul, new chess titles were awarded to the players achieving the necessary results. The new Grandmasters included Scotland's top female player, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (originally from Georgia).
A list of new GM titles awarded is below and full details of all the other titles awarded can be found here. Congratulations to all those who were honoured!
| Name | Country |
| Simonian, Hrair | ARM |
| Wang, Rui | CHN |
| Edouard, Romain | FRA |
| Hammer, Jon Ludvig | NOR |
| Sanchez, Joseph | PHI |
| Jakubowski, Krzysztof | POL |
| Lintchevski, Daniil | RUS |
| Kryakvin, Dmitry | RUS |
| Shimanov, Aleksandr | RUS |
| Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan | SCO |
| Salem, A.R. Saleh | UAE |
| Eryomenko, Volodymyr | UKR |
| Vovk, Andrey | UKR |
