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 »