Talk:Antoaneta Stefanova

How did she earn GM title?
There is some confusion about when she earned her Grandmaster title. I went with FIDE's website saying 2002 but I'm now aware of problems with trusting FIDE's info and after a look through her results I'm not so sure. I'm changing it back to June 2003 as per the other websites info but hopefully someone can clarify under which circumstances she got the title. This is a difficult one from the looks of things but female GMs arent very common so it should have been newsworthy somewhere. Thanks to User:Quale for the warning. Jkmaskell (talk) 17:21, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


 * 2002 is correct. She's listed as GM for the first time in the October 2002 rating list: https://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=38 (in the previous July 2002 list she was an IM: https://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=34). Also chess-results.com lists her as GM in the 2002 Olympiad: http://chess-results.com/tnr1082.aspx?lan=1&art=20&snr=5&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984. As to the way she got the title, most likely she received it winning the 2002 European Individual Women's Championship, she was an IM at the start of the tournament: http://chess-results.com/tnr983.aspx?lan=1&art=1&turdet=YES&wi=984, but we can't write it as her FIDE page doesn't say "Title registered by President" (unlike Kosteniuk and Peng Zhaoqin).Sophia91 (talk) 13:52, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

youngest WFM at the time of becoming WFM?
See here: https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/36914/list-of-records-for-youngest-wfms-woman-fide-masters-since-1950-or-whenever/37084#37084

But are there any news articles or something to support this claim?

Thewriter006 (talk) 17:54, 1 October 2021 (UTC)