Tihomir Atanassov Dovramadjiev
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Tihomir Atanassov Dovramadjiev ' onMouseout='HidePop("37275")' href="/topics/Varna">Varna
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; also known as Tihomir Titschko; "Titschko" is a short form of "Tihomir" and as TigerTAD on the Playchess
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 server) is a Bulgaria
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n chess
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 FIDE Master (2004) and chess boxer
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. He won the first WCBO
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 European Chess Boxing Championship, in October 2005. Titschko defeated Andreas Schneider (Germany
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) in the event; Schneider conceded defeat after seven rounds. Before taking up chessboxing, Dovramadjiev won the Bulgarian national chess championship in his age group multiple times and he has placed in international chess tournaments. On the November 2011 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2356.

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