A senior Arbiter examination was organised by Vellore District Chess Association, on behalf of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and All India Chess Federation, at Annai Mira College of Engineering & Technology, Vellore, on 18th February. Seventy one participants from fifteen districts of Tamil Nadu attended the examination and also the doubt clearing session, conducted in the forenoon by International Arbiter R. Anantharam, Chairman, Arbiters’ Commission, All India Chess Federation.
The event was inaugurated by lighting the holy lamp by the Founder president of the college Sri. Ramadoss, College Secretary and Treasurer. Sri G. Damodharan, Principal, Dr. T.K. Gopinathan, College and participants – Woman International Master JE Kavitha and former state champion MR. Sangeetha Sri, S.Manikandaswamy Vice President TNSCA & President of VDCA also present on the occasion Mr. E.Shanmugahm and Mr. P. Manoharan and Secretary and Treasurer of VDCA coordinated the program well.
Interaction was mainly based on Laws of Chess, rating regulations, tiebreaks and pairing rules and the participants were very keen in getting their doubts cleared. A three hour examination, leading to the title of Senior National Arbiter was held in the afternoon and the following have been declared passed.
List of Successful candidates
| S.No |
Name |
| 1 | Cholavandan.S |
| 2 | Chockalingam Balaji U |
| 3 | Mohammed Yousuff A |
| 4 | Fidale Stanley Edwin P |
| 5 | Sandeep T |
| 6 | Kavitha JE |
| 7 | Murukaananth A |
| 8 | Varshcine K |
| 9 | Hariharan.S. Pillai |
| 10 | Kumar.B |
| 11 | Sridharan Ramanathan |
| 12 | Rajeswari S |
| 13 | Shankar Raman M |
| 14 | Ahalya S |
| 15 | Sankareswaran TA |
| 16 | Sivakumar C |
| 17 | Devendran K |
| 18 | Sanal Raj P R |
| 19 | Vinodh C |
| 20 | Thilagavathi E |
| 21 | Jeganathan N |
| 22 | Aravind G |
| 23 | Maheswaran B |
| 24 | Thanikachalam E |
| 25 | Pitchaimani S |
| 26 | Prabhu R |
| 27 | Balaskandan K |
| 28 | Magesh.J |
| 29 | Maharasi Malathi KV |
| 30 | Sundararjan S |
| 31 | Sangeetha MR |
| 32 | Anna Marial D |
| 33 | Gobi Kannan B |
| 34 | Kamalakannan MS |
| 35 | Shankar Govindaraj B |
| 36 | Sigappi M |
| 37 | Thavasipal Muthukutti I |
| 38 | Pandian.S |
| 39 | Vinodh R |
| 40 | Ayyappan J |
| 41 | Poorna Chandra Prakash.G |
| 42 | Punitha K |
| 43 | Ravi G |
| 44 | Moorthy R |
| 45 | Thiyagarajan B |
| 46 | Sakthivel R |
| 47 | Royston Santhanakumar D |
| 48 | Ilangovan K |
| 49 | Manoharan.P |
| 50 | Sudhakar Raj M |
| 51 | Arumugam R |
| 52 | Pavithra. R |
| 53 | Yuvaraju H |
| 54 | Elango S |
| 55 | John Ramesh S |
| 56 | Padmini Sivakumar |
| 57 | Gopal VK |
| 58 | Arumugam P |
| 59 | Sathiya Poonkuzhali S |
| 60 | Ravi M S |
| 61 | Parvathi |
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