Related Research Articles
Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn is a Vietnamese chess player. He is the youngest Vietnamese ever to become a Grandmaster, and one of the youngest grandmasters in the history of the game, having qualified for the title at the age of fourteen.
The 37th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between May 20 and June 4, 2006, in Turin, Italy. There were 148 teams in the open event and 103 in the women's event. In total, 1307 players were registered.
Rico Mascariñas is a Philippine (Filipino) chess player with the title of International Master. He was one of the premiere chess players of the Philippines during the 1980s and the 1990s and for a long period of time he was the No. 2 ranked player of the Philippines behind Grandmaster Eugenio Torre.
Rogelio Antonio Jr. is a Filipino chess grandmaster, who was awarded the title in 1993. He is affectionately known as "Joey" Antonio or GM Joey. Antonio finished tied for 3rd-8th places in the 2009 Asian Chess Championship and became the first player in the Philippines' history to qualify for the World Cup later in 2009.
Eugenio "Eugene" Torre is a Filipino chess player. In 1974, at 22 years old, he became the first Filipino and non-Soviet Asian to qualify for the title Grandmaster. Torre did this by winning the silver medal in the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice, France. He is considered the strongest chess player the Philippines produced during the 1980s and 1990s, and played for the Philippines on board 1 in seventeen Chess Olympiads. In 2021, Torre was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.
G.N. Gopal is an Indian Chess grandmaster from Cochin, Kerala. Gopal became Kerala's first grandmaster in 2007 at the age of 18 and India's sixteenth grandmaster.
Lubov Zsiltzova-Lisenko is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of FIDE title of Woman International Master. She won the Ukrainian Women's Chess Championship in 1978 and is a two-time Women's Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner.
Noura Mohamed Saleh is an Emirati chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 2009 and is a four-time Emirati Women's Chess Championship winner. She was the Women's Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner in 2006.
Basheer Al Qudaimi is a Yemeni chess player who holds the title of International Master (IM), and Arab Chess Championship winner. He is the Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner.
Heinz Wirthensohn, is a Swiss chess International Master (1977), three-times Swiss Chess Championship winner, European Team Chess Championship individual silver medal winner (1973).
Börje Jansson is a Swedish chess FIDE Master (2005) and two-time Swedish Chess Championship winner.
Glenn Bordonada, is a Filipino chess player, Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (1978), three-times Asian Team Chess Championships gold medal winner.
Carlos Antonio Reyes Nájera is a Guatemalan chess FIDE Master (FM), three-time Guatemalan Chess Championship winner and Chess Olympiad individual gold medalist (1988).
Raül García Paolicchi is an Andorran chess player who received the FIDE title of FIDE Master (FM) in 1993. He is a two-time Andorran Chess Championship winner and Chess Olympiad individual gold medalist (1990).
Hoàng Thị Bảo Trâm is a Vietnamese chess player and Woman Grandmaster. She is a two-time Vietnamese Women's Chess Championship winner, Women's Asian Team Chess Championship team gold winner (2005), and two-time World Women's Team Chess Championships individual medalist.
Vlasta Maček is a Croatian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master. She won Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship (1980) and twice won Croatian Women's Chess Championship. She is Women's Chess Olympiad individual bronze medalist (1974) and first European Senior Chess Championship (women) winner (2003).
Arovah Bachtiar is an Indonesian International master (IM) (1978). He is a four-times Indonesian Chess Championship winner.
Ardiansyah was an Indonesian chess Grandmaster (GM) (1986) and five-time Indonesian Chess Championship winner. FIDE rating lists from 1975 to 2017 give his name as "Ardiansyah, H", the H being an abbreviation for the honorific Haji.
Purev Tumurbator is a Mongolian chess player, two-times Mongolian Chess Championship winner.
Erling Mortensen, is a Danish chess International Master (IM) (1980), four-times Danish Chess Championship winner.
References
- ↑ "Tunveer Gillani - PAKCHESS". 18 June 2015. Archived from the original on 18 June 2015.
- ↑ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - ASIAN ZONAL 3.2 CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP". chess-results.com.
- ↑ "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Tunveer Gillani". www.olimpbase.org.
