A FIDE Trainers' Seminar was organised by the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association under the aegis of All India Chess Federation (AICF) from 1-3 February 2019.
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, kindly sponsored the event and so all participants were given free board and lodging.
India has now held four such seminars in the last twelve months with some 150 local coaches so far qualifying for FIDE Trainer titles.
The following titles were proposed to be awarded and will be subject to endorsement by TRG and final approval by the FIDE Presidential Board at their meeting in March 2019.
| Participants | ||||
| No. | Name | ID | FED | Title Proposed |
| 1 | Kannappan Priyadharshan | 5018293 | IND | FT |
| 2 | Prasad Devaki V | 5000050 | IND | FT |
| 3 | Gokhale Chandrashekhar | 5001315 | IND | FT |
| 4 | Ramaswamy Aarthie | 5004373 | IND | FT |
| 5 | Goswami Vedant | 5003725 | IND | FT |
| 6 | Ramu Kandi | 5006171 | IND | FT |
| 7 | Singh Rishpal S | 5004284 | IND | FT |
| 8 | Amitpal Singh | 5012899 | IND | FI |
| 9 | Kavitha J E | 5044200 | IND | FI |
| 10 | Sangeetha M. R. | 5011868 | IND | FI |
| 11 | Kameswara Rao Vempati | 5049059 | IND | FI |
| 12 | Vinod Kumar M. | 5016207 | IND | FI |
| 13 | Swapnil Hoble | 5020174 | IND | FI |
| 14 | Sivakumar C. | 5016258 | IND | FI |
| 15 | Vijaydespande | 5003628 | IND | FI |
| 16 | Santhanam H. | 5011469 | IND | FI |
| 17 | Niklesh Kumar Jain | 5037921 | IND | FI |
| 18 | Farhaan M | 5055423 | IND | NI |
| 19 | Rajashekar B | 5089743 | IND | NI |
| 20 | Gopinadh M | 5098262 | IND | NI |
| 21 | Gautam Rohidas Tari | 5066921 | IND | NI |
| 22 | Promodraj Moree | 25040316 | IND | NI |
| 23 | Madhuri N | 5044251 | IND | NI |
| 24 | Vamsi Krishna R | 25006355 | IND | NI |
| 25 | Khonde Shobharaj | 5049318 | IND | NI |
| 26 | Unni Krishnan Pg | 35071599 | IND | NI |
| 27 | Bansod Swapnil | 25017993 | IND | NI |
| 28 | Kalyanaraghavan.V.S | 5081513 | IND | NI |
| 29 | Suman Yaddanapudi | 46653910 | IND | NI |
| 30 | Kavya. S | 5065410 | IND | NI |
| 31 | Narayanan J | 25086715 | IND | NI |
| 32 | Karpagakumar S V S | 35009591 | IND | NI |
| 33 | Subrahmanyam K V | 46602712 | IND | NI |
| 34 | Raghavendra M V | 45051518 | IND | NI |
| 35 | Kishore Madasu | 25124595 | IND | NI |
| 36 | Omkar S Dandoti | 25637843 | IND | NI |
| 37 | Banel Andross J | 25707329 | IND | NI |
| 38 | Suresh Babu M H | 45028320 | IND | NI |
| 39 | Venugopal V | 25142151 | IND | NI |
The lecturers were FST/GM Ramesh RB and FST/IM Vishal Sareen.
D.V. Sundar, FIDE VP, officiated while special thanks is due to Bharat Singh Chauhan, AICF Hon. Secretary for obtaining government sponsorship.
Seminar participants