2015 1st quarter
FIDE Presidential Board Decisions
Chengdu
27 April 2015
1PB-2015/1. To approve the budget for 2015.
1PB-2015/2. To approve provisional membership of National Chess Federations of Eritrea, Kosovo, Liberia and Nauru and recommend them for full membership at the 2016 General Assembly in Baku.
1PB-2015/3. To recommend to the 2015 Executive Board to temporarily exclude the South African Chess Federation if they have not settled in full their obligations to the arbiters of the WYCC 2014.
1PB-2015/4. To continue the withdrawal of services to the South African Chess Federation until they respect their obligations to the arbiters of the WYCC 2014.
1PB-2015/5. To approve Qualification Commission report.
1PB-2015/6. To approve the over-the-board titles.
1PB-2015/7. To approve Arbiters’ titles.
1PB-2015/8. To approve Arbiters’ Commission report.
1PB-2015/9. To request Arbiters and Rules Commissions to write their comments on the GM W. So case.
1PB-2015/10. To approve the trainers’ titles but not the full report.
1PB-2015/11. To approve the Rules and Tournament Regulations Commission Minutes from Tromso.
1PB-2015/12. To approve Technical Commission Minutes from Tromso in part.
1PB-2015/13. To approve the list of time controls and publish them.
1PB-2015/14. To approve the proposed team compositions for FIDE team competitions.
1PB-2015/15. To study the Bucholz proposal in more detail.
1PB-2015/16. To approve Competition Rules and publish them.
1PB-2015/17. To approve Chess in Schools Commission report.
1PB-2015/18. Not to accept any of the Women’s Chess Commission proposals.
1PB-2015/19. To approve Social Actions Commission report.
1PB-2015/20. To approve Social Projects Commission report.
1PB-2015/21. To approve Chess for Disabled Commission report.
1PB-2015/22. To approve Medical Commission report.
1PB-2015/23. To approve IO titles.
1PB-2015/24. To approve Events Commission report.
1PB-2015/25. To approve Journalists Commission report and proposals.
1PB-2015/26. To approve two panels for Anti-Cheating Commission investigation.
1PB-2015/27. To approve the proposal of Mr. Freeman to authorize the President to approve Anti-Cheating investigation panels.
1PB-2015/28. To approve Anti-Cheating Commission report.
1PB-2015/29. To approve the report and proposals of Online Commission.
1PB-2015/30. To authorize the President to decide on the dates of the Women’s World Championship match following his trip to Lvov, Ukraine, based on a request from Ms.M. Muzychuk.
1PB-2015/31. To approve the organization of the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in Berlin, Germany, 9-15 October 2015, by World Chess Events Ltd.
1PB-2015/32. To organize the next Presidential Board meeting during the Congress 2015 in Abu Dhabi.
1PB-2015/33. To award the organization of the World Junior and Girls U-20 2017 in Tarvisio, Italy, 1-16 October 2017 to Academia Internazionale di Scacchi – FIDE Academy.
1PB-2015/34. To award the organization of the World Youth U-14, 16 and 18 2017 in Montevideo, Uruguay, 16-26 September 2017 to the Uruguay Chess Federation.
1PB-2015/35. To award the organization of the World Cadet U-8,10, 12 2017 in Brasilia, Brazil, 21-31 August 2017 to the Brazilian Chess Federation.
1PB-2015/36. To award the organization of the World Senior 2017 in Venice, Italy, 6-19 November 2017 to the Italian Chess Federation.
1PB-2015/37. To award the organization of the World Senior Teams 2017 in Eretria, Greece, 28 April – 7 May 2017 to the Greek Chess Federation.
1PB-2015/38. To accept the reports of the Continental Presidents.
1PB-2015/39. To publish a notice about Feller case.
1PB-2015/40. To approve the agreement on marketing support on chess sets and other projects.
1PB-2015/41. To support the proposal of the Russian Chess Federation to include chess into the programme of Winter Universiade 2019 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
1PB-2015/42. To form a Committee led by Mr. G. Makropoulos to study the proposal on live ratings.
WOM Proposals (Sent by WOM Secretary Anastasia Sorokina to the FIDE Office in April 2015)
1. We kindly ask to make an exception, and allow WOM to nominate women for Lecturer title by participating as a Lecturer Assistant in only one official FIDE Arbiters’ seminar.
WOM is trying to organize more Arbiters’ Seminars to get more women arbiters involved in official FIDE women’s events. For this, we need to have more FIDE Licensed Women Lecturers. For now, we only have 5 women lecturers out of 52!!!
http://arbiters.fide.com/seminars/list-of-fide-lecturers.html
By the current rules, to become a FIDE Lecturer, it is necessary to be a Lecturer’s Assistant during 3 official Arbiters’ Seminars. If we will have more women Lecturers, we could organize more Seminars for ladies thru WOM.
2. We kindly ask FIDE to include in the regulations of the official FIDE women’s events (such as FIDE Women’s GP, Women’s World Championship Match, Women’s World Cup/Championship, Women’s World Blitz & Rapid Championships, Women’s Team Championship, Women’s Olympiad) that the Chief Arbiter should be a woman.
Here is some data relating to some major official FIDE women’s events in 2013-2014: (women arbiters in italic)
Arbiters for Women GP series 2013/2014
• Tashkent 2013
CA – Husan Turdialiev (UZB), Deputy- Mahdi Abdulrahim (UAE)
• Geneva 2013
CA – Sultan Al Taher (UAE), Deputy KK Chan (HKG)
• Dilijan 2013
CA – Nikoghosyan Armen (ARM)
Arbiters Kalantarian Norik (ARM)
Tandashvili Margalita (GEO)
• Khanty-Mansiysk 2014
CA – Krujkov Mikhail (RUS) Deputy Sorokina Anastasia (AUS)
• Lopota 2014
CA – K.K. Chan (HKG), Deputy Marika Japaridze (GEO)
• Sharjah 2014
CA Al Taher, Sultan Ali (UAE) Deputy Sorokina Anastasia (AUS)
Women’s World Championship Match 2014 (Hou Yifan – Ushenina)
CA Nikolopoulos, Panagiotis (GRE)
Deputy Carol Jarecki (IVB)
During 41st Olympiad in Tromso participated 160 Arbiters. Only 19 from them was women arbiters. Means 12% from 100%.
3. We kindly ask FIDE to include in the regulations of the official FIDE women’s events such as FIDE Women’s GP, Women’s World Championship Match, Women’s World Cup/Championship, Women’s World Blitz & Rapid Championships, Women’s Team Championship, Women’s Olympiad) that the Chairman of Appeals Committee should be a Women.