International Arbiter Certification Seminars – 21st 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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21st IA Certification Seminars is ready to go! (see bellow the list of participants)

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21st On-line IA Seminar will be held in November 29^th – December 07^th 2025

29th November: 09.00 to 13.00 CET
30th November: 09.00 to 13.00 CET
6th December: 09.00 to 13.00 CET
7th December: 09.00 to 13.00 CET

Lecturers for 21st IA Seminars are IA Alex McFarlane (SCO) and IA Casto Abundo (PHI), both FIDE Lecturers.

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IA Seminar 21 (29/11/2025 to 07/12/2025) with 25 arbiters

FIDE ID	Name (as on FIDE Profile)	Federation
2606763	Ferreira, Alex	CAN
4262921	Zisiadis, Dimitrios	GRE
4307470	Christie, Richie	NZL
9916466	Thilakarathne, D G D Chamil	SRI
3311660	Calle Cosme, Daniel	BOL
1649540	Doujak, Gabriel Andreas	AUT
2406500	McKay, Ruairidh	SCO
10822950	Wandina, Wambugu	KEN
1210440	Rendi, Eva	ROU
4901304	Gan-Od, Sereenen	MGL
4903463	Gan-Erdene, Sukhbaatar	MGL
22263934	Gil Fernandez, Daniel	ESP
5216540	Tabudlong, Ronnie M.	PHI
32011180	Ruiz Delgado, Basilio	ESP
10658211	Abdel Sadek, Yasser	EGY
8615888	Fan Yali	CHN
429059860	Abhijith Chenthara	IND
33464553	Malathi C	IND
5233216	Solon, Ronald	PHI
2086379	Armenta, CJ	USA
25615793	Akash Payasi	IND
4505620	Hansson, Markus	EST
6701590	Zometa, Miguel	ESA
48747815	VasanthaKumar R	IND
13804413	Abdivaliev, Daniial	KGZ

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Ivan Syrovy, ARB Chairman

Nebojsa Baralic, ARB Secretary

Alex McFarlane, Leader of the ARB Education Team