Keeping the AICF’s motto of chess development every nook and corner of the country, All India Chess Federation is organizing a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar at Mumbai from 07/10/2019 to 09/10/2019 during World Youth Chess Championship-2019. The Chief Lecturer will be IA Panagiotis Nikolopoulos, FIDE Lecturer and he will be assisted by IA Gopakumar MS, FIDE Lecturer.
All Marathi Chess Association will recommend 15 participants while AICF will select 15 participants as per the receipt of application. Participants who already attended AICF’s free Arbiter Seminar earlier will not eligible to attend the seminar. The fee for attending the seminar will be Rs. 3000/-. Please use this link to complete the payment : https://aicf.in/other-payments/
Organizing Committee provides lunch and refreshments during the seminar and accommodation for 3 nights starting from 06/10/2019 to 08/10/2019.
Personnel desired to participate in the seminar required to send their entry with recommendation of state association to AICF by 10 September 2019 through email (indianchessfed@gmail.com). The payment for attending the seminar needs to be done only after publication of final list of participants by AICF.
Kind regards,
(Bharat Singh Chauhan)
Hon. Secretary
ALL INDIA CHESS FEDERATION

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