International Arbiter Certification Seminars – 20th IA Seminar is ready to go!!

Dear chess arbiters and especially FIDE arbiters,

According to the FIDE Regulations for the training of chess arbiters, starting from January 1^st 2024, each application for IA arbiter requires one norm from IA Seminar. The duration of the IA Seminar shall be a minimum of sixteen (16) hours. The following IA seminar will also last 16 hours but will be held in 4 sessions (one per day, two weekends) of 4 hours each.

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20th IA Certification Seminars is ready to go! (see bellow the list of participants)

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20th On-line IA Seminar will be held in November 15^th – 23^rd 2025

15th November: 11.00 to 15.00 CET
16th November: 11.00 to 15.00 CET
22nd November: 11.00 to 15.00 CET
23rd November: 11.00 to 15.00 CET

Lecturers for 20th IA Seminars are IA Aris Marghetis (CAN) and IA Hal Bond (CAN), both FIDE Lecturers.

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IA Seminar 20 (15/11/2025 to 23/11/2025) with 25 arbiters

FIDE ID	Name (as on FIDE Profile)	Federation
5127130	Salazar Gonzalez, Felipe Adolfo	MEX
5125545	Arroyo Montenegro, David Isaac	MEX
4404947	Delgado, Julian	COL
25034707	Abilash G	IND
1310925	Kupalov, Igor	SUI
88120090	Vennila C	IND
48721050	Arun Seshadhri S R	IND
54241545	Adel Arafa, Adel	EGY
20670320	Plat, Sammy	FRA
45049793	Manodhya Prakrati	IND
5717612	Chong, Yong Soon	MAS
3903907	Rondon Chacon, Rene Ibrahim	VEN
7800959	Muhammad, Saleem Akhtar	PAK
7818033	Farah Majeed	PAK
6203191	Atikankhotchasee, Manunthon	THA
12501298	Keshavarzi, Masoudeh	IRI
2211351	Escobar Dominguez, Daniel	ESP
30997429	Craney, Peter H	USA
2631067	Corrie, Michael	CAN
2210738	Del Valle Domenech, Rafael	ESP
12560057	Sadeghi Shoormasti, Ali	IRI
3820599	Arizabal, Nathaniel	PER
5807190	Khor, Eng Yeow	SGP
2042118	Hodina, James	USA
9315756	Nawaf Ali, Al-Mansoori	UAE

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Ivan Syrovy, ARB Chairman

Nebojsa Baralic, ARB Secretary

Alex McFarlane, Leader of the ARB Education Team