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Dozen Titles For India
By Arvind Aaron
The FIDE Presidential Board met and approved many titles
and at the end of it, India added its grandmaster
strength by one. Sundararajan Kidambi of Bharat
Petroleum, Chennai was awarded the highest grand master
title by FIDE. India got 12 titles in the FIDE Meetings
that took place from June 15-18.
Kidambi, 26, made his three GM norms at the Canadian
Open 2005, Badalona Open 2008 in Spain and the final
norm at Dubai on May 5 this year. His GM title has been
ratified and awarded by FIDE after the latest communique
was received by the AICF from FIDE.
Shivarame Gowda Thej Kumar of Mysore in Karnataka was
formally awarded the International Master title by FIDE.
He was earlier called M.S. Thej Kumar by us and he has
made the requirement of GM norms as well.
M.S. Gopakumar of Delhi was awarded the International
Arbiter title. Further, nine FIDE Arbiter titles were
awarded and it went to R. Guruswamy, M. Muthukumar (both
TN), Saripalli Jotsna (Goa),B.T. Sethuraman, R. Bhuvana
(TN), Deepak Tandel, P.B. Bhilare (Mah), Madhav Vitthal
Baba (all Mah), Sunil Kumar ( Del).
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