Vladimir Georgiev (chess player)
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Chess
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Grandmaster. He became an International Master in 1995 and a Grandmaster in 2000.
Vladimir Georgiev first caught the eye of the chess world in 1992, when he became silver on the European Champion
European Junior Chess Championship
The first chess youth championship in Europe was the yearly European Junior Championship for under age 20. It was played from 1971–2002. FIDE officially introduced the European Junior Championship in 1970 at their Annual Congress and so the 1971/72 edition was the first official European...
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He became Bulgarian National Champion
Bulgarian Chess Championship
The Bulgarian Chess Championship is an event inaugurated in 1933 to crown the best chess player in Bulgaria. The championship has been held on a nearly annual basis since, with only a few years missed...
in 1995 and in Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia
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in 2007. Since 2002 he played for the Republic of Macedonia.
He is trainer of former Women's World Chess Championship
Women's World Chess Championship
The Women's World Chess Championship is played to determine the women's world champion in chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE....
Antoaneta Stefanova
Antoaneta Stefanova
Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....
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On the May 2010 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2567.