European Chess Union Arbiters Council On-line Arbiter Certification Course First seminar and exam 16-19 January 2021 For whom is the course? The seminar is for the European arbiters, having FA or IA title, who are interested in to work as an arbiter during the ECU online tournaments. What are the cost of the certification? The cost is 30… Read More »
An article from the November edition of the ECU E-Magazine: “Fair play and good manners in Chess: a never ending story” by IA Geert Bailleul.
An article from the November edition of the ECU E-Magazine: “When online chess comes closer to OTB” by IA Marco Biagioli.
ECU Arbiters’ Council Meeting will take place online on 17 December 2020 at 19:00 – 21:00 CET. The ECU Arbiters’ Council invites representatives of the European Federations for an open meeting of the council. Each National Chess federation, member of ECU can register two participants for the AC meeting. Meeting’s Agenda: 1. Annual report of the council 2.… Read More »
Quick free start guide to running events: Monday 9 November @ 15:00 CET. In cooperation with the European Chess Union. Presented by David Cordover, Founder & CEO of Tornelo.com. Duration 45 minutes + questions (Start time 14:00 UTC). Register here. Tornelo is the official tournament management platform of the European Chess Union. In this webinar they will provide… Read More »
An article from the October edition of the ECU E-Magazine: “Fair play and good manners in chess” by IA Tomasz Delega.
An article from the September edition of the ECU E-Magazine: “New features on ECU Arbiters’ Council website” by IA Jiřina Prokopová. Available in pdf here. New features on ECU Arbiters’ Council website The ECU Arbiters’ Council took into consideration suggestions and requests mentioned during the ECU Arbiters Seminar in May and here are few new features you can… Read More »
In the latest issue of the ECU E-Magazine we published the results of Arbiters Riddle prepared by IA Tania Karali and announced the winner. We would like to thank everyone, who sent us their answer and participated in the competition. And of course, congratulations to the winner IA David Gonzalez Gandara from Spain! See the solution in the… Read More »
An article from the August edition of the ECU E-Magazine: “The “Bruges Masters Tournament” organized as the Belgian Chess Championship or Impressions after the first over the board tournament in Belgiumsince the start of Corona pandemic.” by IA Geert Bailleul.
There is a special Arbiters Riddle in the June edition of ECU E-Magazine prepared by IA Tania Karali. We sincerely apologize, thanks not only to the great interest and many enthusiastic responses, the author identified an inaccuracy in the riddle, which wouldn’t make any solution possible. So below you can find new and improved version of the problem.… Read More »