The ECU Arbiters Council organizes a Swiss Manager Seminar (online) on 18th and 19th of January 2025. The seminar language will be English.
The lecturers are IA Marco Biagioli and IA Tania Karali.
Registration closed.
The Swiss system entered our lives in order to avoid a situation of unpractical number of rounds compared to the Round Robin System. The Swiss pairings concept is actually not that new. It actually started back in 1895 in Zürich (hence the name Swiss System). The Swiss System was adopted by the chess world some time later with… Read More »
Dear colleagues, The Call of Interest for arbiters who wish to be appointed as match arbiters in European events in 2025 is here! We are addressing International and FIDE Arbiters (IAs and FAs) who are under the flag of federations that are affiliated to the European Chess Union. As ECU Arbiters’ Council, we appoint now 30% of the… Read More »
An article from the October edition of the ECU E-Magazine: “2024 annual report of ECU AC: Most important items”
An article from the September edition of the ECU E-Magazine: “Annual meeting of the ECU Arbiters’ Council in Budapest”
An article from the August edition of the ECU E-Magazine: “The equation to success” by IA Marco Biagioli
The ECU Arbiters’ Council’s will be held during the ECU General Assembly 2024, in Danubius Hotel Hungaria, Budapest, Hungary, on Friday, September 10th, at 10:00. The meeting Agenda and the annual report that has been submitted to the General Assembly are available below: Meeting Agenda (download in pdf) Report to the ECU General Assembly & Annex (download the Report in pdf,… Read More »
An article from the July edition of the ECU E-Magazine: “Knocking down pieces in time trouble” by IA Alon Shulman
An article from the June edition of the ECU E-Magazine: “The importance of training chess arbiters for the development of chess” by IA Alex Sokolski
An article from the May edition of the ECU E-Magazine: “Application procedure for FIDE or International Arbiters” by IA Frank Jaeger