25th IA Seminar – Report

The 25th Internet Based International Arbiter Certification Seminar was held from 9th to 17th May 2026. It was organized by the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission, under the auspices of FIDE.

The Lecturers were IA Laurent Freyd (FRA) and IA Carolina Munoz Solis (CRC), both FIDE Lecturers.

The Language of the Seminar was English.

Twenty-five (25) arbiters from fifteen (15) federations (ALG, AUS, BEL, CRC, ENG, ESP, GER, IND, KEN, NOR, POR, RUS, TUN, UZB, and VIE) participated in the Seminar, and all of them participated in the evaluation test that was held after the end of the lectures.

The following succeeded in the test and they will be awarded a norm for the title of the International Arbiter, after the approval of the next FIDE Council:

FIDE	Name (as on FIDE Profile)	FED
1982907	Cardoso, Antonio Da Costa	POR
24670057	Klek, Hanna Marie	GER
6509851	Zeledon Perez, Edgar	CRC
54597471	Pardina Domenech, Albert	ESP
14221888	Malikov, Daler	UZB
3276635	Kulkarni, Mahesh	AUS
35083457	Shrivastava Aditi	IND
1592190	Matysiak, Anna	NOR
220574	Scaillet, Timothe	BEL
481270	Buxton, Richard	ENG
3266150	Batyrbekov, Kuanysh	AUS
1911090	Madeira, Francisco Jose Duarte	POR
5500818	Azaiez, Fahmi	TUN
2268795	Huerga Leache, Mikel	ESP
34126241	Nepomnyaschikh, Nikolay	RUS
45026475	Ramakrishnan S G	IND
25971123	Kashish	IND

Ivan Syrovy, ARB Chairman

Nebojsa Baralic, ARB Secretary

Alex McFarlane, Leader of the ARB Education Team