The FIDE Arbiters' manual is a key working tool for chess arbiters worldwide. The Arbiters' Commission has the ambition to make it an eBook and is pleased to invite all arbiters, players, FIDE commission members, Federations, organizers to send us their feedback, comments, proposals to continue improving the Arbiters' Manual.

Please provide your inputs and wishes to IA Shohreh Bayat, Councilor of the FIDE Arbiters' commission in charge of the Arbiters' Manual, using the online survey below:

In case you are unable to use that tool, you may send us your proposals to IA Nebojsa Baralic, Secretary of the FIDE the Arbiters' Commission ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) who will pass on to the team.

The deadline is 8th July 2020. Thank you in advance.

 

The conference will be held in Zoom. To register, simply send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Prior to the start, the organiser will send a link to join the webinar.

Schedule:

Title - Workshop for federations on arbiters' title applications

Hosts - IA Laurent Freyd, Chairman of the FIDE Arbiters' Commission, IA Nebojsa Baralic, Secretary of the FIDE Arbiters' Commission and IA Jirina Prokopova, Member of the FIDE Arbiters' commission in charge of titles

Description - the hosts will share about best practices in the preparation of arbiters' title applications, to help federations and arbiters increase their applications approved at first try.

During the conference, you will find out:

- how to fill in and validate an arbiter's norm

- how to select norms for a valid application

- how to check data related to an application

It was organized by the European Chess Union, under the auspices of FIDE.

The Lecturer was IA Prokopova, Jirina (CZE), FIDE Lecturer and the Assistant Lecturer was IA Bailleul, Geert (BEL). Technical Organizer was IA Logothetis, Sotiris (GRE).

The Language of the Seminar was in English.

Forty-one (41) participants are registered from twenty-six (26) different federations attend the seminar and thirty-five (35) participated in the examination test, held after the end of the lectures.

FIDE Arbiters` Seminar which should have been organized in Hull, England (19-21/06/2020) will be organized as the Internet Seminar.

The 79th Internet based FIDE Arbiters' Seminar (ENG) is going to be organized from 21/06/2020 to 28/06/2020 by the England Chess Federation, under the auspices of FIDE.

The Lecturer will be IA/IO Barnes, Lara A.L. (ENG), FIDE Lecturer and the Assistant Lecturer will be IA Atkinson, Alan (ENG).

The language of the Seminar will be English.

The Seminar will give norms and titles of FIDE Arbiter, according to the Regulations for the titles of Arbiters.

For more detailed information:

Alan Atkinson

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Mobile: +44 (0) 1227 830629

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