FIDE Arbiter Seminar at Udaipur

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.

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.