A Senior National Arbiter Examination was organized by West Godavari District Chess Association, on behalf of Andhra Pradesh Chess Association and All India Chess Federation was held at Bhimavaram, AP on 10th July 2018. Twenty seven participants from Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Odisha and Chhattisgarh took part in the doubt clearing session conducted by Prof.R. Anantharam IA, Chairman, Arbiters’ Commission, AICF. The important topics pertaining to the syllabus of the SNA exam was mainly discussed and the participants actively involved in the discussion.
The session was followed by an examination in the afternoon and the following have been declared passed.
| S.No. | Name of the participant | State |
| 1. | Debasis Mishra | ORI |
| 2. | Prachi Kishore Mayekar | Mah |
| 3. | Ram Kumar E | TN |
| 4. | Gopinadh M | AP |
| 5. | Kanthi Kiran Katarapu | AP |
| 6. | Sheik Abdul Nabi | AP |
| 7. | Hariprasad Pindi | AP |
| 8. | Madasu Kishore | AP |
| 9. | Uday Kumar A | AP |
| 10. | Deepak Shankar A | TN |
| 11. | Rama Subba Reddy | AP |
| 12. | Sreenivas Naveen M | AP |
| 13. | Venkatesh Sattiveti | AP |
| 14. | Radha Kmari Vemparla | AP |
| 15. | Prasad MVS | AP |
| 16. | Prasada Rao Ponnapalli | AP |
| 17. | Sreedhara Raju | AP |
| 18. | Ram Prasad TVH | AP |
| 19. | Mandula Rajeev | AP |
| 20. | Suman Y | AP |
| 21. | Umamaheswari Adhimoolam | TN |
| 22. | Venkataramana Amasa | AP |
| 23. | Venkata Subbu Reddy GC | AP |
| 24. | Shubham Soni | CHT |
| 25. | Sudhir Kumar DV | AP |
| 26. | P Md Hussain Babu Khan | AP |
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