Considering the great interest in IA Certification Seminars, we are pleased to announce the organization of a new IA Seminar in November / December 2025. It will be 21st IA Seminar.
According to the FIDE Regulations for the training of chess arbiters, effective from January 1st 2024, each application for IA arbiter requires one norm from IA Seminar. The duration of the IA Seminar shall be a minimum of sixteen (16) hours.
In 2024 and 2025, the ARB Commission organized nineteen IA seminars with 442 FIDE arbiters.
The following IA seminar will be organized by the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation. It will last 16 hours and will be held in 4 sessions (one per day, two weekends) of 4 hours each.
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21st On-line IA Seminar will be held in November 29th – 30th and December 6th – 7th 2025
29th November: 09.00 to 13.00 CET
30th November: 09.00 to 13.00 CET
6th December: 09.00 to 13.00 CET
7th December: 09.00 to 13.00 CET
Lecturers for 21st IA Seminars are IA Alex McFarlane (SCO) and IA Casto Abundo (PHI), both FIDE Lecturers.
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Entry fees for the IA Seminar: 130 €
Contact and registration: Nebojsa Baralic, FIDE ARB Secretary (secretary.arbiters@fide.com)
Inquiries: Casto Abundo, Executive Director, Asian Chess Federation (casto.abundo@gmail.com)
Ivan Syrovy, ARB Chairman
Nebojsa Baralic, ARB Secretary
Alex McFarlane, Leader of the ARB Education Team