FIDE Arbiter Seminar at Udaipur

6 years ago

A FIDE Arbiter seminar was organised by All Rajputana Chess Association and hosted by Chess in Lake City on behalf of All India Chess Federation and FIDE Arbiters’ Commission at Udaipur, Rajasthan from 17th to 19th September 2019 under AICF’s Vision 2020 project.

Following is the list of thirty participants from Tamilnadu, Puducherry, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Sikkim and Rajasthan participated in this three-day event.

SNo.	Name	Club
1	Aishwarya	Delhi
2	Akash Payasi	Uttar Pradesh
3	Arif Mohammed	Rajasthan
4	Ashish Raj	Bihar
5	Barkha Kumawat	Rajasthan
6	Bhargava Sunil	Rajasthan
7	Bhavik Joshi	Gujarat
8	Dipika Sahu	Rajasthan
9	Divyanshu Upadhyay	Chattisgarh
10	Farhaan M	Puducherry
11	Jaimal Singh Rathore	Rajasthan
12	Jain Daksh	Rajasthan
13	Kamlesh Choudhary	Rajasthan
14	Katariya Gayatri	Rajasthan
15	Kori Amitanand	Karnataka
16	Kumar Manish	Rajasthan
17	Mahesh Kumar Das	Chattisgarh
18	Mohit Kumar Jaiswal	Uttar Pradesh
19	Monika Sahu	Rajasthan
20	Nirupama Purohit	Rajasthan
21	Pankaj Kumar Salvi	Rajasthan
22	Parul Rathore	Rajasthan
23	Parveen Khan Pathan	Rajasthan
24	Prashant Raval	Gujarat
25	Priyadarshi Alok	Bihar
26	Raveendra Kumar C	Tamilnadu
27	Singh Satendra	Uttar Pradesh
28	Suraj Gupta	Sikkim
29	Suraj Sahu	Rajasthan
30	Wilson Andrade	Karnataka

International Arbiter and Fide Lecturer, Gopakumar M S was the Chief Lecturer and International Arbiter Swapnil Bansod assisted him in the lectures.

They lectured on topics like Laws of Chess, Rating regulations, Title regulations, Arbiter regulations, Competition rules, Tiebreaks, Pairing regulations, Anti-cheating regulations etc.

The participants were very enthusiastic and inquisitive with lot of inputs. Many of them cleared their doubts they had in their mind about many regulations and focus was mainly on Laws of Chess. Several case studies and practical examples were also discussed during the seminar.

On the third day, the participants attended the examination and hosts Chess in Lake City provided mementos to all the participants and lecturers as token of love. FIDE Arbiters’ Commission will declare the results after evaluation of answer sheets in due course as per regulations.