1. Objective: To educate and certify Trainers and Chess-Teachers on an international basis. This FIDE Trainers’ Seminar for FIDE Trainer Titles Diploma is approved by FIDE and the FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG). The seminar is co-organised by the FIDE, the European Chess Union (ECU), the FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) and the Russian Chess Federation (RCF).
2. Dates: January 30th to February 1st, 2016.
3. Location: V.Pik Str, 4; RSSU, Moscow, Russia.
Dear FIDE trainers,
The FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) strongly encourages all trainers to increase own activity in promoting chess, and especially and specifically related to the domain of work of the chess trainer.
We encourage more personal chess websites or blogs, as well as active personal Facebook pages and Twitter accounts.
A representative site example can be seen at http://grandcoach.com
On behalf of the TRG,
Chairman Adrian Mikhalchishin
From 15 to 17 December 2015 a FIDE Arbiters' Seminar was organized in Dili, Timor-Leste, by the Asian Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Timor-Leste Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.
The Lecturer was IA Bunawan Bong (INA), FIDE Lecturer.
The lectures were in the English language.
Thirty two (32) people from Timor-Leste participated in the Seminar and in the examination test held after the lectures. The following succeeded in the test and they will be awarded the FIDE Arbiter Title, after the approval of the next FIDE Presidential Board:
Verdial, Romeo (TLS) 31900461
Dos Reis, Tito (TLS) 31900291
Viegas, Antonio (TLS) 31900429
D’Araujo, Frumencio (TLS) 31900526
Guterres, Luis (TLS) 31900232
Tilman, Mario (TLS) 31900070
Jeronimo, Augusto (TLS) 31900380
Lopes, Joao (TLS) 31900313
Maria, Apolinario (TLS) 31900402
Fernandes de Carvalho, Paulo (TLS) 31900259
Americo, Joao (TLS) 31900356
Martins, Armando (TLS) 31900372
Santana, Ervira (TLS) 31900283
Fernandes, Jose (TLS) 31900569 * (18 years old, the title will be awarded when he will be 21)
Reis, Joviano (TLS) 31900437
Fernandes, Tomas (TLS) 31900097
Madalena, Rute (TLS) 31900470
Monteiro, Jose (TLS) 31900364
Tilman, Maria (TLS) 31900275
De Almeida, Ricardo (TLS) 31900399
Monteiro, Roselio (TLS) 31900410
Sarmento, Saturnino (TLS) 31900453
Lobo, Antonio (TLS) 31900267
Hula-Muda, Ana (TLS) 31900577
Cardoso, Saula (TLS) 31900062
IA Takis Nikolopoulos
Chairman
FIDE Arbiters’ Commission
On 12 and 13 December 2015 a FIDE Arbiters' Seminar was organized in Minsk, Belarus by the Global Chess Academy of Minsk, in cooperation with the Belarus Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.
The Lecturer was IA Andrzej Filipowicz (POL), Secretary of the FIDE Technical Commission and FIDE Lecturer, and Assistant Lecturer was IA Anastasia Sorokina (AUS).
Thirty (30) arbiters from Belarus participated in the Seminar and fourteen (14) of them participated in the examination test held after the lectures. The following succeeded in the test and they will be awarded a FIDE Arbiter Norm, after the approval of the next FIDE Congress:
| Name and Surname |
Federation |
FIDE ID |
| Trus, Iryna |
BLR |
13504282 |
| Aleksandrovich, Marina |
BLR |
13517155 |
| Turapina, Irina |
BLR |
13501607 |
| Hermanovich, Nataliya |
BLR |
13517201 |
| Znak, Sviatlana |
BLR |
13517210 |
| Yakushev, Vasili Al |
BLR |
13503715 |
| Biazliudau, Stanislau |
BLR |
13508733 |
| Merebanov, Semen |
BLR |
13501968 |
| Vashurin, Artur |
RUS |
24121134 |
| Shynkevich, Pavel |
BLR |
13509365 |
| Trifonov, Denis |
BLR |
13501313 |
| Maljush, Andrej |
BLR |
13500724 |
| Vaskanian, Arsen |
BLR |
13516620 |
IA Takis Nikolopoulos
Chairman
FIDE Arbiters’ Commission
From 1 to 6 December 2015 the 44th Internet based FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was held, organized by the Americas Chess Confederation and under the auspices of FIDE.
The lecturer of the seminar was IA Santiago Garcia Ramos (MEX), FIDE Lecturer.
The Lectures were in Spanish language.
Twenty four (24) Arbiters from fourteen (14) federations (Uruguay, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Chile, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Peru, Dominican Republic, Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, Panama, Guatemala and Mexico) attended the seminar on Internet and participated in the examination test held after the lectures.
The following succeeded in the test and will be awarded a norm for the title of FIDE Arbiter, after the approval of the next FIDE Congress:
| NAME |
FEDERATION |
| Ulaneo Rubén |
Uruguay |
| Barrios Zamora Carlos |
Costa Rica |
| Angulo Cubero Oscar |
Costa Rica |
| Benítez Fretes Gualberto Ramón |
Paraguay |
| Pizarro Soza Francisco |
Chile |
| Salazar Ruiz Alberto José |
Nicaragua |
| Garcia Rosales José Alexander |
Venezuela |
1. Objective: To educate and certify Trainers and Chess-Teachers on an international basis. This FIDE Trainers’ Seminar for FIDE Trainer Titles Diploma is approved by FIDE and the FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG). The seminar is co-organised by the FIDE, the Confederation of Chess for America (CCA), the FIDE Trainers’ Commission, the FIDE Commission for Women Chess (WOM) and the Federacion Uruguaya de Ajedrez (FUDA).
2. Dates: February 12th to 14th, 2016.
3. Location: Montevideo - Uruguay.
From 5 to 6 January 2016 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Stockholm, Sweden, by the Swedish Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.
The Lecturer was IA Omar Salama (ISL), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Thór Gudmundur Sverrir (SWE).
The venue of the Seminar was the Clarion Hotel in Stockholm.
The lectures were in English language.
Fifteen (15) people from Sweden, Denmark and Finland participated in the Seminar and in the examination test, held after the end of the lectures. The following succeeded in the test and will be awarded a norm for the FIDE Arbiter title and after the approval of the next FIDE Congress:
| SURNAME |
FIRST NAME |
FIDE ID |
FED. |
| Dock |
Lars |
1704982 |
Sweden |
| Holmqvist |
Gunnar |
1716069 |
Sweden |
| Lindbergh |
Stephan |
1713213 |
Sweden |
| Perneborn |
Björn |
1724339 |
Sweden |
| Kiel |
Jörgen |
1428020 |
Denmark |
| Palmblad |
Jan Peter |
1705512 |
Sweden |
| Myklebust |
Rasmus |
1717227 |
Sweden |
| Lauronen |
Jouko |
506834 |
Finland |
| Fransson |
Peter |
1701142 |
Sweden |
| Johansson |
Carl Fredrik |
1701576 |
Sweden |
| Salopaa |
Tero |
508284 |
Finland |
| Junnila |
Ville |
504637 |
Finland |
| Näslund |
Mikael |
1708260 |
Sweden |
| Lindberg |
Cajsa |
1710877 |
Sweden |
| Jalling |
Håkan |
1724215 |
Sweden |
IA Takis Nikolopoulos
Chairman
FIDE Arbiters’ Commission
In 9 and 10 January 2016 a FIDE Arbiters' Seminar was organized in Prague, Czech Republic, by the Chess Federation of Czech Republic and under the auspices of FIDE.
The lecturer was IA Andrzej Filipowicz (POL), Secretary of the FIDE Technical Commission and FIDE Lecturer, and Assistant lecturers were IA Jirina Prokopova (CZE) and IA Petr Zaruba (CZE).
The venue of the Seminar was the Olimpik Hotel, in Prague.
Nineteen (19) Arbiters from Czech Republic, Israel and Austria participated in the seminar and n the examination test held after the end of the lectures.
The following succeeded in the test and they will be awarded a norm for the FIDE Arbiter title, after the approval of the next FIDE Presidential Board:
NAME |
FED. |
FIDE ID |
| Bazant, Petr |
CZE |
319996 |
| Fiala, Zdenek |
CZE |
330680 |
| Frank, Haggai |
ISR |
2815249 |
| Hajsman, Ladislav |
CZE |
349585 |
| Haslinger, Ewald |
AUT |
1624881 |
| Horak, Vladimir |
CZE |
319589 |
| Lausman, Petr |
CZE |
330280 |
| Mazuch, Jan |
CZE |
348910 |
| Novak, Jiri |
CZE |
312088 |
| Partl, Milos |
CZE |
329827 |
| Sieber, Martin |
CZE |
327590 |
| Skala, Jaromir |
CZE |
325805 |
| Slavik, Miroslav |
CZE |
375730 |
| Smajzr, Martin |
CZE |
309575 |
| Smajzrova, Katerina |
CZE |
373150 |
| Soukup, Vaclav |
CZE |
307997 |
| Sulc, Jaromir |
CZE |
325317 |
| Veselsky, Jan |
CZE |
303135 |
| Zamecnik, Ondrej |
CZE |
349097 |
A Seminar for International Organizers was held 8th-10th January in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The objective of the Seminar was to educate and certify Organizers on an international basis. Successful Seminar attendees receive a FIDE IO Norm necessary for the FIDE IO title application.
The Lecturer was IO Gunnar Bjornsson, President of the Icelandic Chess Federation and chief organizer of Reykjavik Open since 2010 and European Team Championship in Reykjavik last year.
Four participants attended the Seminar.
All participants took the test successfully and will get the FIDE IO Norm:
Hermann Adalsteinsson
Stefan Bergsson
Kristjan Orn Eliasson
Kjartan Maack
Chess School Polimac Kilkenny - Ireland
10 years
The Chess School Polimac started its work in 2006 with 4 students in Club House Hotel Kilkenny as a part of Kilkenny Chess Club. The FIDE Trainer Darko Polimac originally from Croatia was very keen to put Kilkenny at the World Chess map and he did it. Since then Kilkenny is proud of 14 Irish and 2 British junior chess titles, 3 Fide masters (youngest in Ireland age 13 and 16) and many juniors representing Ireland internationally. This itself is great results that no other City in Ireland and UK can match but adding that over 3000 kids learnt how to play chess with Darko in their schools is a small record itself.
FIDE Trainer Darko Polimac
For years, our junior players were among best academic achievers with top Junior and Leaving exam results and many of them are now students at prestige universities in Ireland and UK.
Our player FIDE Master Poornima Menon secured her scholarship based on great results as a chess player at her Medicine University in Dublin and we are happy that now she is a Junior Doctor.
Our top players are FIDE Master Ryan Rhys Griffiths, FIDE Master Karl McPhillips, FIDE Master Dr. Poornima Menon and John Courtney, student of medicine in Dublin.
From 2010 – 2015 Darko Polimac was Junior and Development Officer of Irish Chess Union, Academy Instructor, coach of the Irish Junior Chess team and part of Selection Committee for both Junior and Senior teams.
In 2015, he become only FIDE Trainer in Ireland and was elected to European Chess Union Educational Commission.
In February 2016, he will participate at the conference in EU Parliament where topic will be the Chess in Schools Program.
He believes that Chess should be part of the curricula in all Irish Schools and he met 2 Irish Ministers to discuss the prospect of this.
After many years, Irish Juniors were at the top at the strong international 4 nations event Glorney and Gilbert Cup.
Irish juniors won ahead England, Scotland and Wales. Irish President Mr. Higgins attended the opening ceremony and his speech was amazing as usual.
http://www.president.ie/en/media-library/speeches/speech-at-the-glorney-gilbert-international-chess-tournament
FIDE Trainers' Commission (TRG) Trainers' Surveys
The FIDE Trainers' Commission (TRG) continues with regular publishing of high quality chess training materials (in pdf format in English language) in the form of Trainers' Surveys, targeted at improving chess understanding.
Please see January 2016 additions: "The Pawn Phalanx" and "Waiting moves and previous moves" at http://trainers.fide.com/surveys.html.
1. Objective: To educate and certify Chess- Teachers on an international basis. This FIDE Trainers’ Seminar for FIDE School Instructor Diploma is approved by FIDE and the FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG). The seminar is co-organised by the FIDE, the African Chess Confederation (ACC), the FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG), the Social Action Commission (SAC) and the Uganda Chess Federation (UCF).
2. Dates: March 18th to 20th, 2016.
3. Location: Kampala, Uganda.
From 22 to 24 January 2016 a FIDE Arbiters' Seminar was organized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by the Malaysian Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.
The Lecturer was IA Casto Abundo (PHI), FIDE Lecturer, and Assistant Lecturer was IA K.K. Chan (HKG). The venue of the Seminar was the University Malaya.
The lectures were in the English language.
Twenty seven (27) National Arbiters from Malaysia participated in the Seminar and in the examination test held after the lectures. The following succeeded in the test and they will be awarded a FIDE Arbiter Norm, after the approval of the next FIDE Presidential Board:
| Liew, Chee-Meng Jimmy |
5700019 |
MAS |
|||
| Lim, Poay Sim |
5721709 |
MAS |
|||
| Mohd Latib, Latifah Kaiyisah |
5704553 |
MAS |
|||
| Ng, Wei Jie |
5728541 |
MAS |
|||
| Kwan, Penz Penz Pearl |
5705487 |
MAS |
|||
| Yap, Bob |
5709865 |
MAS |
|||
| Chuah, Jin Hai Jonathan |
5700876 |
MAS |
|||
| Ismail, Muhd Firdaus |
5730554 |
MAS |
|||
| Yee, Jeun Fui |
5721610 |
MAS |
|||
| Mohd Said, Azhar |
5727669 |
MAS |
|||
| A.Yusuf, Sophian |
5727642 |
MAS |
|||
| Mohd Naser, Mohd Fadhil |
5718929 |
MAS |
|||
| Mohd Nor, Noor Hafiz |
5730546 |
MAS |
|||
| Mohd Latib, Latifah Salwani |
5727677 |
MAS |
|||
| Abu, Bakar Martin B.A. |
5704944 |
MAS |
|||
| Yeap, Joo Hock |
5709679 |
MAS |
|||
| Nor Azlan, Mohd Adi |
5730562 |
MAS |
|||
| Johari, Nazli Johardy |
5709210 |
MAS |
|||
| Mohd Kassim, Kaber Azzad |
5713218 |
MAS |
|||
| Arshad, Muhammad |
5706530 |
MAS |
|||
| Mohd Latib, Latifah Syamimi |
5704774 |
MAS |
|||
| Madhavan, Olivia |
5704766 |
MAS |
|||
| Muniyan, Genkeswaran |
5707579 |
|
MAS |
IA Takis Nikolopoulos
Chairman
FIDE Arbiters’ Commission
A FIDE Arbiters' Seminar is going to be organized from 7 to 10 July 2016 in Benasque (Huesca), Spain, by the Spanish Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Organizers of the Benasque Open Tournament and under the auspices of FIDE.
The Lecturer will be IA Jesus Mena Sarasola (ESP), Councilor of FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer.
The venue of the Seminar will be the Hotel Aneto, in Benasque.
The language of the Seminar will be Spanish.
The Seminar will give FIDE Arbiter norms and titles, according to the Regulations for the titles of the Arbiters.
For more detailed information:
Mairelys Delgado Crespo:
Tel.: (+34) 616 76 94 56, (+34) 974 41 70 05
E-mail: openajedrezbenasque@gmail.com
Application Form
IA Takis Nikolopoulos
Chairman
FIDE Arbiters’ Commission
Lecture for Anti cheating regulations and guidelines for Arbiters On Internet
The FIDE Arbiters’ Commission, in cooperation with the FIDE Anti Cheating Committee, will organize a lecture, in order to present the Anti cheating regulations and the Anti cheating guidelines for Arbiters that are in effect from 1 January 2014.
The lecture will be held on Internet, on 23 February 2016, 17.30-20.30 Eastern European Time (UTC+2).
The Lecturers will be IA Takis Nikolopoulos (GRE), Chairman of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and IO Yuri Garrett (ITA), Secretary of the FIDE Anti Cheating Committee.
The Technical Organizer will be IA Mihail Prevenios (GRE).
The participation will be free for all Arbiters, with priority to IA, FA and then Arbiters of National Level. Maximum number of participants will be 40.
For participation please send e-mail to:
IA Takis Nikolopoulos: takisnik@yahoo.com
IA Mihail Prevenios: mprevenios@gmail.com
Takis Nikolopoulos
Chairman
FIDE Arbiters’ Commission
1. Objective: To educate and certify Trainers and Chess-Teachers on an international basis. This FIDE Trainers’ Seminar for FIDE Trainer Titles Diploma is approved by FIDE and the FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG). The seminar is co-organised by the FIDE, the European Chess Union (ECU), the FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) and the Ukrainian Chess Federation (UCF).
2. Dates: March 6th to 8th, 2016.
3. Location: Lviv, Ukraine.
