For decades, medical science has known that, in life-threatening situations, the intervention of bystanders is essential for the success of the intervention and for the victim’s chances of survival.
The seminar will take place online, on December 7th 2025, 10.00-13.00 CEST.
The ECU Arbiters’ Council has launched the 2025/2026 Call of Interest to be appointed to European Championships.
The Call of Interest has come in advance this year since the Council wishes to finalise all lists before Christmas 2025, in order to start appointing earlier in the 2026 beginning. For this reason, the window to apply has been reduced to 3 weeks and will expire on Friday, December 5th.
FIDE Women’s Commission (WOM) and Norwegian Chess Federation are organizing an Internet based FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar for women only from 9th to 11th January 2026. Seminar language is English.
The ECU Safe Play Webinar was conducted on September 21st, 2025, with Marco Biagioli as lecturers.
The seminar is a brand new format designed to instruct arbiters about the ECU Safe Play policy and rules.
The second of the Advanced Education seminars was conducted on September 6th and 7th, 2025, with Marco Biagioli and Ashot Vardapetyan as lecturers.
The fifth of our monthly Anti-Cheating seminars has been conducted on the September 13th and 14th, 2025, featuring Marco Biagioli and Matthew Carr as lecturers.
As part of the ECU seminar series one of the Swiss Manager seminars was held in German language on 26th/27th of July 2025. 23 participants from three federations (Germany, Austria & Netherlands) attended.
The lectures were IA Sandra Schmidt and IA Frank Jaeger.
The fourth of our monthly Anti-Cheating seminars has been conducted on the July 12th and 13th, 2025, featuring Takis Nikolopoulos and Tania Karali as lecturers.
The chess world is showing increasing interest in what many now refer to as “Freestyle Chess.” This term is gradually replacing – or at least complementing – the older names Chess960 and Fischer Random Chess. Having served as Chief Arbiter at two such events this year – one in Weissenhaus, Germany in February and another in Paris, France in April – I encountered a number of unique challenges. These are worth sharing, as Freestyle Chess differs from classical chess in several subtle yet significant ways.
The third of our monthly Anti-Cheating seminars has been conducted on the June 14th and 15th, 2025, featuring Stephane Escafre and Tania Karali as lecturers.