12th IA Seminar – Report
The 12th Internet Based International Arbiter Certification Seminar was held from 15th to 12rd March 2025. It was organized by the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission, under the auspices of FIDE.
The Lecturers Lecturers were IA Mahdi Abdulrahim (UAE) and IA Anastasia Sorokina (AUS), both FIDE Lecturers.
The Language of the Seminar was English.
Twenty-six (26) arbiters from eighteen (18) national federations (AUS, EGY, ESP, FRA, IND, IRI, JOR, KAZ, LAT, LBN, MNE, NED, PLE, POL, RSA, THA, TUN, and TUR) 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 |
---|---|---|
6213383 | Srisawang, Piroon | THA |
12508683 | Esmaeili, Sanaz | IRI |
5311799 | Hammoud, Rawad | LBN |
2247500 | Magdaleno Puche, Juan Pedro | ESP |
4196872 | Savina, Anastasia | FRA |
33327645 | Pratul Sinha | IND |
44535902 | Subasi, Veysel | TUR |
3203360 | Kordahi, Nicholas | AUS |
25987097 | Md Hussain Babu Khan P | IND |
3215164 | Chew Lee, Alanna | AUS |
8101779 | Ahmad, Saadah | JOR |
5301378 | Abou Zahr, Ezzeddine | LBN |
12538620 | Khodabandeh, Milad | IRI |
14325764 | Mokoena, Jabulani | RSA |
5523478 | Oueslati,Amira | TUN |
4809661 | Abdulkareem Ismael Tawfeeq | NED |
10628118 | Serag El Din, Moheb | EGY |
11619473 | Ter-Avetisjana, Agapi | LAT |
16504178 | Pekic, Momcilo | MNE |
21836264 | Kulesza, Andrzej | POL |
12573035 | Ansari, Mehrnoosh | IRI |
3803392 | Bendayan Claros, Aaron | ESP |
13702424 | Kaiyrbekov, Rustam | KAZ |

Ivan Syrovy, ARB Chairman
Nebojsa Baralic, ARB Secretary
Alex McFarlane, Leader of the ARB Education Team