Official website of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association
(Affiliated to All India Chess Federation) TN Regn. no.48/1960
Official website of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association
(Affiliated to All India Chess Federation) TN Regn. no.48/1960
From 26 to 28 January 2018 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Chennai, India, by the Tamil Nadu State Association, in cooperation with the All India Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.
The venue of the Seminar was the Royal Regency Hotel, in Chennai.
The Lecturer was IA Prof. R. Anatharam (IND), FIDE Arbiters’ Commission Councillor and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Dharmendra Kumar (IND).
The lectures were in the English language.
Fifty-six (56) people from India participated in the Seminar and in the examination test held after the lectures. The following succeeded in the test and they will be awarded a FIDE Arbiter Norm, after the approval of the next FIDE Presidential Board:
| NAME | FIDE ID | FED |
| Rajaraman | 5018307 | IND |
| Uma Maheswaran P | 5075050 | IND |
| Sandeep T | 35005960 | IND |
| Sunitha Jain | 25036130 | IND |
| Kavitha JE | 5044200 | IND |
| Naresh Krishna S | 25003780 | IND |
| Arasu B | 25932977 | IND |
| Chockalingam Balaji | 35016350 | IND |
| Rajagopalan CV | 25932985 | IND |
| Ramesh S | 25662155 | IND |
| Ravichandran K | 5003113 | IND |
| Bhaskar V | 5068746 | IND |
| Rajasekaran P | 5015740 | IND |
| Ravichandran S | 5008263 | IND |
| Sathish P | 25682326 | IND |
| Banel Andross J | 25707329 | IND |
| Karpagavalli T | 25631179 | IND |
| Jeganathan N | 25760076 | IND |
| Kalyanaraghavan VS | 5081513 | IND |
| Umapathy M | 25933299 | IND |
| Chitra R | 46623752 | IND |
| Ebenezer Rajakumar D | 35084585 | IND |
| Jameel Kamate | 25921819 | IND |
| Shankar Raman N | 25064568 | IND |
| Sri chitra P | 25933280 | IND |
| Kosanam Karunakar Reddy | 25097466 | IND |
| Naveen Karthikeyan P | 35017438 | IND |
| Aruthi M | 5041341 | IND |
| Thanikachalam E | 25619144 | IND |
| Jayaraman K | 25625764 | IND |
| Manikandan C | 35094203 | IND |
| Sivasubramanian B | 46638210 | IND |
| Anitha Rajendran | 25698095 | IND |
| Anandan Arunachalakani | 25756320 | IND |
| Arasappan T | 3506051 | IND |
| Shankar Govindaraj B | 25751611 | IND |
| Sudhakar H | 25717146 | IND |
| Senthil Kumar V | 45016771 | IND |
| Sundara Rajan S | 46637621 | IND |
| Praveen G | 25677136 | IND |
| Santhi M | 25064576 | IND |
| Kannan M | 25932993 | IND |
| Elango M | 45044040 | IND |
| Kannan PL | 45043418 | IND |
| Sathiamoorthi R | 25933000 | IND |
IA Takis Nikolopoulos
Chairman
FIDE Arbiters’ Commission