Arbiters' Seminar in Dagomys

Wednesday, 07 May 2008

A R B I T E R S' S E M I N A R

RUSSIA, 17-23 April 2008

LECTURER'S REPORT

The Arbiters' Seminar was organized by the Russian Chess Federation and took place in the complex "Dagomys" in Sochi, from 17 to 23 of April 2007. The seminar was held in parallel with Russian Youth Chess Championship.

In total, 79 arbiters took part in the seminar (5 International Arbiters, 16 National Category and 58 the 1st Category Arbiters) from Russia representing about 40 regions. The list of arbiters is attached.

The seminar proceeded 7 days (18 hours). The program of seminar included the following issues:

The Laws of Chess (including Rapid, Blitz and all appendices)
Tournament Rules
Basic principals in organizing tournaments.
System of games (Round Robin system, Swiss system, Scheveningen system)
Tie-breaks.
Rating regulations.
Title regulations.
Regulations for the titles for the Arbiters.
Usage of electronic clocks.
Pairing Programs

All participants of the seminar have shown a big interest and activity during discussions of above mentioned issues.

At the end of the seminar it was organized a test work for 10 Arbiters.

Participants who achieved 80% and points in the examination test, may be awarded the FIDE Arbiters' Norm:

The List of participants of the seminar and examinations' test results are attached.

Name	Fed.	Birth	Result	Norm
Boromangnaev, Batir	RUS	1939	80	FIDE Arbiter Norm
Vodnitsiy, Vladimir	RUS	1949	81	FIDE Arbiter Norm
Zhdanovich, Gennady	RUS	1957	90	FIDE Arbiter Norm
Kryukova, Irina	RUS	1968	90	FIDE Arbiter Norm
Poletov, Vladimir	RUS	1949	67
Potapenko, Alexei	RUS	1966	66
Stepanov, Andrey	RUS	1984	86	FIDE Arbiter Norm
Chibikova, Irina	RUS	1971	81	FIDE Arbiter Norm
Yakimenko, Anna	RUS	1974	80	FIDE Arbiter Norm
Yatsenko, Vitaly	RUS	1951	74

All Arbiters, who participated in this seminar got certificates from the Russian Chess Federation.
Finally, I would like to congratulate the Russian Chess Federation for good organization and successful implementation of this seminar.

The Lecturer

IA Ashot Vardapetian (ARM)

Member of FIDE Arbiters' Council,
Rules and Tournament Regulations Committee
and Swiss Pairings Committee

Please download Lecturer's Report.

Here are some photos from Seminar:

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