[{"id":11313,"date":"2026-09-26T20:49:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/?p=11313"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:49:46","slug":"fide-arbiters-seminar-in-nouakchott-mtn-august-2026-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/news\/11313","title":{"rendered":"FIDE Arbiters\u2019 Seminar in Nouakchott (MTN) \u2013 August 2026 \u2013 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From 14th to 16th August 2026, a FIDE Arbiters\u2019 Seminar was organized in Nouakchott (MTN), by the Mauritanian Chess Federation, under the auspices of FIDE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lecturer was IA\/IO Messaoudi, Bechir (TUN), FIDE Lecturer and Local Assistant Lecturer was IA Kreiked, Aly Moctar (MTN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The language of the Seminar was French with translation into Arabic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seventeen (17) arbiters from MTN chess federation participated in the Seminar and sixteen (16) participated in the examination test, held after the end of the lectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following succeeded in the test and they will be awarded a norm for the title of the FIDE Arbiter, after the approval of the next FIDE Council:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><strong>FIDE ID<\/strong><\/th><th><strong><strong>Name (as on FIDE Profile)<\/strong><\/strong><\/th><th><strong>FED<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>19606486<\/td><td>Brahim Oumar<\/td><td>MTN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19606290<\/td><td>Taher El Moustapha<\/td><td>MTN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19607725<\/td><td>Hamady Mohamed Mahmoud<\/td><td>MTN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19603533<\/td><td>Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamedou El Abass<\/td><td>MTN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19612389<\/td><td>Cheikh Lemane<\/td><td>MTN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19604971<\/td><td>Mohameden Sidi Tah<\/td><td>MTN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19600291<\/td><td>Hemam Mine<\/td><td>MTN<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"584\" data-id=\"11315\" src=\"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260926_nouakchott_mtn_pic02-1024x584.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260926_nouakchott_mtn_pic02-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260926_nouakchott_mtn_pic02-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260926_nouakchott_mtn_pic02-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260926_nouakchott_mtn_pic02.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" 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\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 14th to 16th August 2026, a FIDE Arbiters\u2019 Seminar was organized in Nouakchott (MTN), by the Mauritanian Chess Federation,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11317,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions\/11317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":11308,"date":"2026-09-26T11:36:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/?p=11308"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:39:42","slug":"fide-arbiters-seminar-in-noida-uttar-pradesh-ind-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/news\/11308","title":{"rendered":"FIDE 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Internet-based FIDE Arbiters\u2019 Seminar (Asian Chess Federation) \u2013 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 236th Internet Based FIDE Arbiters\u2019 Seminar (Asian Chess Federation) was held from 4th to 6th September 2026. It was organized by the Asian Chess Federation, under the auspices of FIDE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lecturer was IA\/IO Pahlevanzadeh, Mehrdad (IRI), FIDE Lecturer, and Local Assistant Lecturer was IA Pagaran, Michael Joseph (PHI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Language of the Seminar was English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-two (22) arbiters from fourteen (14) national chess federation (BEL, CAN, CHN, CRO, IND, JPN, NGR, PAK, ROU, RSA, SRB, TUR, USA, and ZIM) participated in the Seminar, and all of them participated in the examination test, held after the end of the lectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following succeeded in the test and they will be awarded a norm for the title of the FIDE Arbiter, after the approval of the next FIDE Council:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>FIDE ID<\/th><th>Name (as on FIDE Profile)<\/th><th>FED<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>334033448<\/td><td>Jerkovic, Leonardo<\/td><td>CRO<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>223751<\/td><td>Vincent, Gwijde<\/td><td>BEL<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>255424<\/td><td>Burssens, Jorian<\/td><td>BEL<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2632420<\/td><td>Kapush, Oleksandr<\/td><td>CAN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>531001610<\/td><td>Sasikanth Vaddadi<\/td><td>IND<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>150101194<\/td><td>Nemeth, Jake<\/td><td>USA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6386776<\/td><td>Oney, Mehmet<\/td><td>TUR<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>35005243<\/td><td>Pritam Kr.Ghosh<\/td><td>IND<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>122105404<\/td><td>Cirica, Eric-Cristian<\/td><td>ROU<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7007400<\/td><td>Wang, Minrui<\/td><td>JPN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11026642<\/td><td>CHIOME TAURAI<\/td><td>ZIM<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8506132<\/td><td>EVBUOMWAN Edward Eguavoen<\/td><td>NGR<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 236th Internet Based FIDE Arbiters\u2019 Seminar (Asian Chess Federation) was held from 4th to 6th September 2026. 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Awards 2026 Presented at the ARB Congress Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, during the meeting of the FIDE Arbiters&#8217; (ARB) Commission, the Arbiters&#8217; Awards 2026 were presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The awards were handed to the recipients who were present at the meeting, while the awards of those who were unable to attend were received on their behalf by their national federations, which will present them at an official ceremony in their respective countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FIDE Arbiter&#8217;s Award is granted to arbiters with a minimum of 35 years of service as an International Arbiter (having held the IA title since at least 1991) who have served as an arbiter in at least three FIDE Major Events (Olympiads, World Championships, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>List of Awarded Arbiters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Md Haroon or Rashid (BAN)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bento, Antonio (BRA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bratosevic, Mladen (CRO)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Krause, Christian (GER)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Metzing, Horst (GER)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dapiran, Franca (ITA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Abd Hamid Bin Abd Majid (MAS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We sincerely congratulate all the award recipients!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIDE ARBITERS&#8217; 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The purpose of the Manual is to provide clear explanations, practical guidance, and up-to-date interpretations of the FIDE regulations that govern our game.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Several important updates have been introduced in the FIDE Handbook since the previous edition. These include:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>further refinements to rating and title regulations<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>updated tie-break and playoff procedures<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>continued harmonisation of rules across standard, rapid, and blitz<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The work presented here is the result of a collective effort by a highly committed team of experts. Team led by IA Anantharam Rathinam (IND) and members Alex McFarlane (SCO), Amir Erfan Hashemi (IRI), Arasu B (IND), Ashot Vardapetyan (ARM), Chanda Nsakanya (ZAM), Cicek Melih (TUR), Ganesh Babu S (IND), Gilton Mkumbwa (MWI), Gopakumar S (IND), Kamalov Jakhongir (UZB), Klaus Deventer (GER), Marco Biagioli (ITA), Mario Held (ITA), Roberto Ricca (ITA), Shaun Press (PNG) and Swapnil Bansod (IND).<\/p>\n<p>They all provided very valuable input.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Publications\/Manual\/Arbiter-Manual-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD FIDE ARBITERS` MANUAL 2026 (*.pdf) &gt;&gt;&gt;\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIDE Arbiters&#8217; Commission is pleased to release the edition 2026 of the FIDE Arbiters&#8217; Manual.\u00a0 The FIDE Interim President,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arb-manual","category-fide-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11290,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288\/revisions\/11290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":11274,"date":"2026-09-20T16:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/?p=11274"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:23:11","slug":"fide-arbiters-congress-meeting-samarkand-2026-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arbiters.fide.com\/news\/11274","title":{"rendered":"FIDE Arbiters\u2019 Congress Meeting (Samarkand 2026) \u2013 Invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear FIDE official, dear delegates, dear arbiters, dear chess friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the FIDE Arbiters\u2019 Commission Meeting\u00a0to be held as part of the FIDE Congress in Samarkand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting will be held on Tuesday, 22nd September 2026 at 09:00 AM in <strong>Silk Road by Minyoun Hotel (2nd floor)<\/strong>, and on the following <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/85762185395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zoom link<\/a><\/strong> (Meeting ID: 857 6218 5395) and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/h9ub9gSdDj0?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FIDE YouTube<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agenda:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">Introduction words<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">Obituary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:14px\">ARB Commission Activities (informative Report)<br>&#8211; 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