All India Chess Federation and Arbiter Commission of AICF organised an online Senior National Arbiter Seminar and Examination for Indian Diaspora, North Eastern States and Andaman & Nicobar on 26th and 27th May 2023.
A total number of 28 participants were participated in the seminar and Mr. Gopakumar Sudhakran IA and FIDE Lecturer was the lecturer and examiner
Mr. Gopakumar handled the topics on Laws of Chess, Tournament Rules, Arbiter Regulations, Swiss Pairings, Rating Regulations, Title regulations and Fair Play Regulations during the two days seminar.
27 participants out of 28 attended the final written examination & viva after the seminar and following participants are qualified for SNA Title & FIDE NA License.
| SNo. | Name | Fide-No. | Grading |
| 1 | Gondhalekar Mayur* | 2015030 | A |
| 2 | Srinivasan Venugopal | 88102432 | A |
| 3 | Ekta Singh | 25741640 | A |
| 4 | Gowri Shankar R J | 33474125 | A |
| 5 | Venugopalan Suresh Balaji* | 39915760 | A |
| 6 | M Alamelu | 88157504 | A |
| 7 | Srinadh Panchumarthi | 33369674 | A |
| 8 | Shri Humrudha J | 5037522 | B |
| 9 | Surya Dutta | 88149200 | B |
| 10 | Shribhagwan Yadav | 88157555 | B |
| 11 | Sivanantham E N | 88111717 | B |
| 12 | Vipan Negi | 25036637 | B |
| 13 | Aiswarriya M | 88157482 | B |
| 14 | Bhairab Gogoi | 5087155 | B |
| 15 | Francis Soni | 10303235 | B |
| 16 | Navdeep Singh chandel | 88157512 | B |
| 17 | Sasirekha Ponnusamy | 33399794 | B |
| 18 | Jasleen Kaur Bohra | 25772465 | B |
| 19 | Tarandeep Kaur Bohra | 25772473 | B |
| 20 | Raja Ram P | 88157520 | B |
| 21 | S Netazi | 88157539 | B |
| 22 | Sudha G | 33391254 | B |
All the participants awarded with SNA title are required to be registered with AICF as Arbiter as well as get their FIDE NA License prior to officiating in any FIDE rated event. They must be licensed before officiating in any FIDE Rated event or attending FIDE Arbiter Seminar. To get NA License please pay an amount of Rs. 3210/- at https://prs.aicf.in/pay and intimate the details (Name, FIDE ID and Screenshot of payment) by email to indianchessfed@gmail.com & aicf.acct@gmail.com. Please note that the validity of exam results for obtaining FIDE NA License is 6 months from the date of publication of results.
**All other participants shall be eligible for NA title and eligible to officiate all events except FIDE rated ones.**

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