FIDE Trainer's Commission

FIDE Trainers Commission (TRG) 6th Meeting(s) & Telemeeting (25-26-27.10.2009) Minutes & Decisions

Wednesday, 28 October 2009 11:43

Note: In these meetings Adrian Mikhalchishin, Efstratios Grivas, Uwe Boensch, Arshak Petrosian and Miguel Illescas were physically present. Mikhail Khodarkovsky and Peter Long were participating via Internet.

1. Chess in Schools Commission – Cooperation: The Council was generally informed by the Secretary on his meetings in FIDE Congress concerning CIS Commission and the various cooperating possibilities. Also, the Council was informed on TRG Member Peter Long’s report (attached letter – 01-TRG-CIS Report-Long). Most of the subjects raised are of a great interest but the Council feels that there is no reason to change the status qwo of the titles (all should remain on TRG’s management). TRG is ready to cooperate actively with CIS but it will wait for concrete proposals.

2. On-line Academies – CACDEC Cooperation: The Council was informed by the Secretary on potentional cooperation with CACDEC (FIDE Congress), concerning on-line training. Councillor Miguel Illescas and FST Georg Mohr were endorsed to work-out in detail the project and present a possible procedure, accepted by both sides. The Secretary also informed that he will visit England next month in order to cooperate with experts on this subject and he recommended various sites where TRG members can draw some (positive or negative) conclusions, as http://www.andrewmartinchessacademy.com and http://www.chesstrainer.com/index.htm.

3. Trainers for CACDEC countries – Olympiad 2010: The Council was informed on CACDEC request for cooperation on providing/advice on a list of 10-12 trainers to match equal number of CACDEC countries for training and captaining them in Olympiad 2010. These trainers must be certified (TRG/FIDE titled) and their expenses will be fully covered (no training fee but a question concerning pocket money should be raised to CACDEC Chairman). Chairman Adrian Mikhalchishin was endorsed to work-out in detail the project and present a potentional list (name, title and e-mail) for CACDEC countries new list (attached letter – 02-TRG-CACDEC-New List).

4. Cyprus FIDE Trainers Seminar: The Council was informed on a potentional FIDE Trainers Seminar in Cyprus, on the second half of January 2010 (exact dates still pending). The seminar will be contacted by FST & Teacher Efstratios Grivas in the Greek/Cypriot language and it will be good only for the two lowest titles of the NI and DI (attached letter – 03-TRG-International Course for FIDE - Program - Cyprus 2010). For these reasons, the Council feels that the exception of the ‘one lecturer’ can be valid and approves it.

5. Dubai Chess Club – Woman Trainer: The Council received an application from Dubai Chess Club, concerning a woman trainer (attached letter – 04-TRG-Dubai Chess Club). Chairman Adrian Mikhalchishin and Council member Uwe Boensch were endorsed to investigate the subject and propose certain names in order to response and help the club.

6. Filipowicz Andrzej – Missing results: The Council received a request by Mr. Andrzej Filipowicz concerning missing results of past World Junior Championships. The Council will distribute the request among its members and will upload it on its website. Council member Peter Long is endorsed to watch out the subject and inform Mr. Filipowicz on any new discovery (attached letters – 05-TRG-Filipowicz 1 & 05-TRG-Filipowicz 2).

7. ISCU Cooperation Letter: The Council was informed on the ISCU cooperation letter (attached letter – 06-TRG-ISCU Cooperation). The Council would like to express his willingness to fully help and endorses Council Member Mikhail Khodakorvsky to work out the cooperating details, by contacting ISCU.

8. Arab Chess Federation: The Council was informed on the letter by Mr. Khaled Hasan who has been appointed Chairman of the Trainers Commission of the ACF and expressed its regards (attached letter – 07-TRG-ACF).

9. Rangan Srinivasa Letter: The Council was informed on the letter by Mr. Rangan Srinivasa (Chennai 2009 seminar participant) and was satisfied by the response of Council member Peter Long (attached letter – 08-TRG-Rangan Srinivasa).

10. FIDE Trainer Awards 2008-2009: The Council was informed on the FTA 2008 and expresses its satisfaction on the successful project. The Secretary prepared the draft for the FTA 2009 (attached letters – 09-TRG-FIDE Trainer Awards 2008-Results & 09-TRG-FIDE Trainer Awards 2009-Rules).

11. Applications for FST Title: We received applications for the FST Title from Mr. Igor Glek (Germany), Sarhan Guliev (Azerbaijan) and Mr. Khosrow Harandi (Iran). The Council examined the relative applications and the CVs (attached letters – 10-TRG Glek Application & 10-TRG-Guliev Application & 10-TRG-Harandi Application 1 & 2) and decided to award the FST title to Khosrow Harandi and ask for more info on the successes of the other two, postponing the decisions for the end of the year, together with other applications. The Secretary will inform FIDE office on the procedures and the title given will be valid when approved by the PB (January 2010).

12. General Info: The Council was informed on general info and pending projects:

12.1 ECU – EYCC Seminars 2010-2012 Budget – Novi Sad 2009: Approved by ECU GA.

12.2 On-line Trainers Database: Pending (Minutes 24.07.2009 – Peter Long).

12.3 Reserve Player in Team Events: Pending (Minutes 24.07.2009 – GS).

12.4 Evaluation of Educational Computer Programmes: Pending – Uwe Boensch.

12.5 The need for the FIDE Trainers Titles: Pending (Minutes 24.07.2009 – GS).

12.6 Role of Captains: Pending (Minutes 24.07.2009 – GS).

13. 2010 TRG Projects: The Council examined the procedure to the execution of the approved projects for 2010. The projects distributed as following, after clearing that each Coordinator will directly cooperate with the Secretary and will send a copy of any activity also to him. Payments will be also authorised by the Secretary and a Euro Bank Account should be given by all parts involved:

13.1 Syllabus: Coordinator Efstratios Grivas. The authors will be informed for their contracts and general info and they will have to appoint their proposed subjects. There will be 38 subjects in total, covering 40 teaching hours (attached letters – 11-TRG-Syllabus Guide-Plan & 11-TRG-Syllabus Guide-Contract).

13.2 CACDEC Seminar in Latin America 2010: Coordinator & Lecturer Miguel Illescas (second lecturer Alonso Zapata). According to approved budget, in cooperation with the Continental President.

13.3 CACDEC Seminar in Africa 2010: Coordinator & Lecturer Uwe Boensch (second lecturer Georg Mohr). According to approved budget, in cooperation with the Continental President.

13.4Women Commission Seminar 2010: Coordinator Adrian Mikhalchishin (lecturers pending). According to approved budget, in cooperation with WC Chairmain Mrs. Alexandra Kosteniuk.

13.5 WYCC Seminar 2010: Coordinator & Lecturer Efstratios Grivas (second lecturer pending). According to approved budget by ARISF and CACDEC.

13.6 EYCC Seminar 2010: Coordinator & Lecturer Mikhail Gurevich (second lecturer pending). According to approved budget, in cooperation with ECU and organizers, when dates officially confirmed.

13.7 Proposed Book Lists: Coordinator Jeroen Bosch. Delivered till the end of February. Each list should contents number, full title, author, type (opening-middlegame-endgame-various), publisher and year of first publishing.

13.8 Trainers’ Surveys 2010 – FIDE site: Coordinator & General Editorial/design Georg Mohr. Surveys will appear at the end of each month. Procedure according to approved budget and description.

14. Informative Letter to all FIDE Federations: The Council decided that an informative letter should be circulated to all federations (according to FIDE decisions), containing the following matters (attached letter – 12-TRG-Informative Letter):

14.1 Information on Direct Approval re-opening and on rare cases for FST, FI, FI.

14.2 Information on the nomination of an Official Contact Trainer.

14.3 List of Trainers – Checking.

14.4 General Info on 2010 projects.

15. Meetings in Nanjing: The Chairman informed on his meetings during the Nanjing festival:

15.1 Meeting with FIDE General Secretary Ignatius Leong: Discussed were activities of TRG this year, plus future plans.

15.2 Meeting with FIDE Vice President IGM Zurab Azmaiparashvili: Discussed were questions of preparation of top players.

15.3 Meeting with UEP Director Carsten Hensel: There are interesting possibilities to widen TRG activities during famous Dortmund tournament 2010.

15.4 Meeting with ECU President Boris Kutin: Discussed were trainers Seminars during European Youth Championship 2010.

15.5 Meeting with China Chess Association Secretary, TRG Advisor IGM Ye: TRG has problems with contacting such important and successful federation as the Chinese. Few of our mails were unanswered. We discussed problems with training process in China and agreed to cooperate closer. Possibilities of trainers’ seminars in China were discussed. We need to make our contacts much more intensive.

15.6 Meeting with Mongolian trainer Bat Mongontuul: Mongolian Federation plans to conduct Trainers Seminar in August 2010, during FIDE Women Grand Prix. Mongolian Federation asked about possibility to send some trainers to Mongolia.

15.7 Meeting with famous Russian – Qatar trainer IGM & FST Aleksey Kuzmin: Discussed were questions of top training and situation with trainers in Gulf Countries.

15.8 Meeting with director of Wijk aan Zee tournament Jeroen Bosch: Trainers Seminar and other activities during Wijk aan Zee tournaments were discussed.

16. Meeting in Novi Sad: On Tuesday 27.10.2009 the present members of TRG Council in Novi Sad hold a meeting with Trainers. The Chairman Adrian Mikhalchishin, the Secretary Efstratios Grivas, the Council member Uwe Boench and the TRG Councilor Arshak Petrosian welcomed 25 respected trainers and observers from all over Europe: Cooper Lawrence (England), Flumbort Andras (Hungary), Fornal-Urban Agnieszka (Poland), Gavrilakis Nikolaos (Greece), Giorgadze George (Georgia), Golod Vitali (Israel), Greet Andrew (England), Jansa Vlastimil (Luxembourg), Kaloskambis Mihail (Greece), Kizov Atanas (FYROM), Konopka Michal (Czech Republic), Kreisl Robert (Austria), Lobzhanidze David (Germany), Matlak Marek (Poland), Merukinoski Riste (FYROM), Mikac Matlaz (Slovenia), Mohr Georg (Slovenia), Nielsen Peter Heine (Denmark), Popadic Dragan (Montenegro), Ristic Nenad (Serbia), Sanli Kuvay (Turkey), Sindik Ervin (Croatia), Tukmakov Vladimir (Ukraine), Vasilev Milev (Bulgaria) and Velikov Petar (Bulgaria). TRG Council informed the panel on its activities and its projects for 2010 and asked everybody’s contribution, in order to strength and encourages its tries. Finally, Mr. Flumbort Andras (Hungary) offered his services (in fluent English language), to act as TRG’s Assisting Attorney, providing legal help when it is in need. TRG appreciated and accepted his kind offer.

As the present Minutes do not refer to any new decision/proposal (except Harandi’s SFT title and the voting panel on 2009 Awards) but just on the plans and their execution of the already approved projects (85^th FIDE Congress 2009), there is no need to wait for any new approval. But they must be re-confirmed by the General Secretary and the Treasurer.

The present Minutes will be announced on TRG’ website. The attached letters will not be available for download till their approval by the General Secretary and the Treasurer.

The Chairman		The Secretary
Adrian Mikhalchishin		Efstratios Grivas

Member	Member		Member
Uwe Boensch	Peter Long		Michael Khodarkovsky

Councillor	Councillor
Arshak Petrosian	Miguel Illescas

FIDE Trainer Awards 2008

Thursday, 22 October 2009 06:02

The FIDE Trainers' Commmission (TRG) is pleased to announce the results of the FIDE Trainer 2008 Awards as approved by the Kallithea Halkidiki FIDE Congress 2009.

Botvinnik Medal (Men): Arshak Petrosian (Armenia)

Furman Medal (Women): Ye Jiangchuan (China)

Euwe Medal (Juniors): Adrian Mikhalchisin (Slovenia)

Boleslavsky Medal (Book - Build Up Your Chess Series): Artur Jussupow

Petrosian Medal (Special Achievement): Smbat Lputian (Armenia)

Hall of Fame: Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR)

The FIDE Trainer Awards 2008 is the very first initiative of Chariman Adrian Mikhalchisin of the newly formed TRG in April 2009 as proposed by his predecessor Yuri Razuvavev in the meeting of the FIDE Trainers Committee held during the Dresden FIDE Congress 2008 and subsequently approved by the Istanbul FIDE Presidential Board 2009.

A committee was immediately formed within TRG and a short list drawn up and nominations by FIDE Office Bearers, TRG and Federations were invited for the five categories whcih are as follows:

1. Botvinnik Mikhail medal for men’s trainer or captain, for best results in mens competitions where World Championships and Olympiads are valued foremost, to be considered too are long standing high results.

2. Furman Symeon medal for women’s trainer or captain, similar to Botvinnik medal but applicable to women’s competitions.

3. Euwe Max medal for juniors trainer, for best results in junior competitions, to be considered are world and continental championships plus founder of famous chess schools, training programs, and academies.

4. Boleslavsky Isaac medal for best book which instructional values are remarkable, and to be considered are also series of articles, instructional computer software, and programs for development of players.

5. Petrosian Tigran medal for a special achievement over the last years.

TRG also made the decision to also induct one or more legendary trainers of the past (and also from the present in exceptional cases) each year into a Trainers' Hall of Fame and FIDE also approved a judges’ panel (voting after September 1^st, 2009) consisting of seven (7) members, all with reputation in the field of training, and whose decision would be reported to the Kallithea Halkidiki FIDE Congress 2009.

The full results of voting are available by clicking here .

FIDE Trainers Commission (TRG) 5th Telemeeting (09.09.2009) 85th FIDE Congress Meeting (12.10.2009) Minutes & Decisions

Monday, 12 October 2009 21:29

1. Chairman’s Meetings: The Council was informed on Chairman’s meetings in Zurich (FIDE Trainers’ Seminar) and Fermo (EYCC) * see downloads - 01-TRG-Chairman Meetings-Zurich 2009 and 01-TRG-Chairman Meeting-Fermo 2009 1 & 01-TRG-Chairman Meeting-Fermo 2009 2. The Chairman also informed that meeting with ECU (Secretary Mr. Horst Metzing and Deputy President Mr. Gerry Walsh) took place in Fermo (Secretary Efstratios Grivas was present as well). DP Gerry Welsh provided the Council with ECF list of Trainers files * see download 01-TRG-ECF Accredited Coaches List. Finally, the Chairman informed that the potentional FIDE Trainers Seminar in Fermo 2009 was failed due to various reasons.

TRG Council welcomed the proposal of Jop Delemarre (Netherlands) that FIDE should circulate a letter to all Federations asking for a person to be appointed as the ‘official contact trainer’ with the TRG. By this action, TRG’s communication and further cooperation with the federations will become easier and more effective. For this purpose a draft letter to all federations was prepared (attached download 01-TRG-Communication with FEDs).

2. Czech Republic Chess Federation Letter: The Council was informed on a letter from the Czech Federation, opposing TRG previous proposals. TRG responded in accordance with its previous decisions * see downloads 02-TRG-Czech Federation 1 and 02-TRG-Czech Federation 2.

3. TSF Project: The Council was informed on the submission of a supporting program to the Turkish Chess Federation concerning a training program & see download03-TRG-TSF Project.

4. Singapore FIDE Trainer Seminar 2009: The Council was informed on this seminar and approved it * see attached downloads 04-TRG-FIDE ITC-Singapore 2009-Application and 04-TRG-FIDE ITC-Singapore 2009-Program.

5. Athens FIDE Trainer Seminar 2009 (draft): The Council was informed on this potentional seminar and approved the procedure * see downloads 05-TRG-International Course for FIDE-Details-Athens 2009 and 05-TRG-International Course for FIDE-Program-Athens 2009.

6. Cooperation with ARISF 2009-2012: The Council was informed on the potentional cooperation with ARISF, concerning seminars on the WYCC and the procedures made by the Secretary * see downloads 06-TRG-ARISF 2009-2012-Application and 06-TRG-IOC-ARISF-Project.

7. Cooperation with ECU: The Council informed about the potentional cooperation with ECU on the EYCC and on the proposed procedure. A letter was send to ECU in order to be discussed in its next meeting in Novi Sad (ETC) * see download 07-TRG-International Course for FIDE - ECU – EYCC.

8. Budget 2010: The Council was informed on the proposed 2010 Budget (68.000 euros) and general financial report prepared by the Secretary and approved it * see download 08-TRG-Budget 2010. The new proposed subjects, as described in the letter, are:

Analysis 4 - Trainers Surveys in www.trainers.fide.com: This is a new proposed project, which deals with important Trainers’ material that can be given and uploaded on FIDE’s site (and TRG’s mirror site). Each of the above trainers will hand two surveys (Middlegame & Endgame) in good English language and in Chessbase and Word format, around the last week of each month. The material will be editing and corrected by the Editorial and uploaded for free downloading in various formats (Word, PDF, and CBV). We think that this will be a nice presentation of the Trainers’ work and it will help FIDE’s website to receive many more commercial. It is possible that the proposed authors will differ in the end.

Analysis 5 - Proposed Books’ Lists: This is also a new project. Our thought is to create official proposed books’ lists in four languages. One list (in each language) will consist of around 100 selected titles for individual training and another will consist of about 20 selected titles proposed for trainers. These lists will become official FIDE proposals.

Analysis 6 - Open FIDE Trainers’ Seminar CACDEC: We strongly believe that more CACDEC Countries’ FIDE Trainers’ Seminar should be organised, in order to increase the trainers’ level worldwide. So, two seminars could be held in countries that FIDE can decide (covering neighbouring countries also). One seminar should be held in Africa and one in Latin America and each host country can be decided by the affiliated Continental Presidents. FIDE and CACDEC can split the budget (7.000 euros each part), or even maybe it could be covered in total by CACDEC (14.000 euros).

9. Discussion between FIDE GS and Chairman: The Council was informed on a general discussion between the FIDE GS Mr. Ignatius Leong and Chairman, where interesting opinions were exchanged * see download 09-TRG-E-Mails.

10. Exchanged E-mails between TRG Members: The Council was informed on exchanged August e-mails between the TRG members, concerning various subjects * see download 10-TRG-E-Mails.

11. Report of TRG to the 80th FIDE Congress: The Council was informed on this and approved the submission of the Secretary * see download 11-TRG-80th FIDE Congress-TRG Report.

12. Report on Magglingen (Switzerland) FIDE Trainers Seminar: The Council received and approved the report of Head Lecturer Uwe Boench (see downloads 12-TRG-Report Magglingen 2009 1 & 12-TRG-Report Magglingen 2009 2). The Secretary prepared the relevant invoice to FIDE (see download12-TRG-FIDE Switzerland Seminar-Invoice) and updated the Trainers’ List (see download 12-TRG-Title Holders-Financial Status).

13. Changes in Trainers’ Lists: The Council informed on some requests regarding the correction of trainers’ personal details. In Al-Anin Seminar (2008), Ahmed Adel Ahmed (FIDE ID 10608559) born 1977, mistakenly was recorded as Ahmed Adel Fahmy also from Egypt. Also for Abdulhameed Elarousy (EGY-FI-10610480), his correct ID and name is 10600086 El Arousy, Abdul Hameed (m EGY 2295). Finally, Mr. Hassan Khaled also questioned the absence of Mr. Abdelnabbi Imed (10600035) from FIDE’s website lists. As the trainer is included in our list we will inform on the correction. The Secretary will officially correct all the above cases.

14. Peruvian Chess Federation: The Council informed on a request for various info by the Peruvian Chess Federation and the letter prepared and send by the Secretary (download 14-TRG-Peruvian Federation).

15. Trainers Titles - Direct Approval Re-opening: The Council (represented by TRG Secretary) and the audience thought on this subject that was raised in the previous minutes and finally decided to propose the re-opening of the Direct Approval procedure only for the two lowest titles, these of the National Instructor and the Developmental Instructor. A short period of six months would be enough for the federations to register their trainers and for the Commission to approve them. Other important cases concerning the three highest titles can be examined and awarded by the Commission but these cases in general must be an exception and fully explained.

All the Council’s decisions/proposals will come in force after the next General Assembly’s approval.

The present Minutes will be announced on TRG’ website. The downloads will not be published untill their approval by the General Assembly.

The Chairman		The Secretary
Adrian Mikhalchishin		Efstratios Grivas

Member	Member		Member
Uwe Boensch	Peter Long		Michael Khodarkovsky

The Chess Instructor 2009

Sunday, 04 October 2009 03:21

The Chess Instructor 2009
A Compendium for Chess Teachers, Coaches and Parents
by Jeroen Bosch, Steve Giddins

Publisher: New In Chess, 2008
Edition: Paperback medium
ISBN: 978-90-5691-247-5
Pages: 230
Language: English

Features: Training Methods, Chess in Schools, Exercises, Top Coaches Explain, the Benefits of Learning Chess, Interviews, Tools, Reviews, etc.

In the last decade there has been a phenomenal growth of chess within the educational community.

The popularity of chess is no accident: in an era of compulsive zapping of TV channels, violent gaming and mobile chatter, learning chess means improving basic skills (like analysis, decision making, strategic thinking, stamina, and dealing with stress) while interacting meaningfully with other pupils. A great job for motivated teachers and coaches.

But how do you teach chess? What material do you use? Is there a particularly successful method? How do you sell a chess curriculum, how do you motivate your pupils and monitor their progress?

The Chess Instructor 2009 aims to give answers to all these questions, and more. Michael Basman explains how he puts 70,000 British schoolkids to play, every year, and Simen Agdestein tells about his work with super talent Magnus Carlsen.

How do you run a chess school in the US, and what does acclaimed expert Mark Dvoretsky say about improving the play of promising youngsters?

This compendium is for chess training at all levels. With a multi-colored mosaic of articles, it aims to raise topics for discussion, and to get chess teachers at local schools to learn from top coaches, as well as the other way around. With ready-to-use teaching exercises for all levels.

Dr Alexey Root, author of 'Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators': "An important new book"

GM Lubos Kavalek, The Washington Post: "A wonderful collection"

IM Willy Hendriks, Schaak Magazine: "A nice overview of what is currently being discussed among chess coaches."

WIM Elisabeth Vicary, Chess Life: "It's rare that a collection of essays is uniformly excellent, but 'The Chess Instructor 2009' comes very, very close."

Bruce Pandolfini, ChessCafe: "There's so much here, so many sparkling gems of perception (..) Even a casual reading can provide nuggets of surprise."

IM Herman Grooten, Eindhovens Dagblad: "A unique compilation of different views on chess coaching"

Elburg Chess Reviews: "A book that every chess coach must have."

British Chess Magazine: "A very interesting book"

Bab Wilders, Nederlands Dagblad: "A fascinating collection of articles (..) Hopefully the start of an impressive series."

GM Paul Motwani, The Scotsman: "Excellent"

Chess Horizons: "This is an incredibly good idea for a series of books (..) There are likely to be hundreds of coaches clamoring to be included in the next volumes as a way of increasing their name recognition and their status."

European Youth Chess Championships 2009 TRG Meeting

Monday, 07 September 2009 10:00

During the 19^th European Youth Chess Championship and on 04.09.2009 (15:30) a FIDE Trainers Commission meeting was held under the auspices of TRG.

The TRG Chairman Adrian Mikhalchishin, the TRG Secretary Efstratios Grivas and the TRG Advisor Mikhail Gurevich were on the podium, presenting and explaining TRG’s past and future projects, to an audience of respected trainers: Nenad Doric (Croatia), Sergei Berezjuk (Czech Republic), Stanislav Jasny (Czech Republic), Andrew Martin (England), Philipp Schlosser (Germany), Mark Berkovich (Israel), Boro Miljanic (Montenegro), Jop Delemarre (Netherlands), Delf Meljer (Netherlands), Petra Schurmman (Netherlands), Robin Swinkels Netherlands), Thomas Willemze (Netherlands), Tadej Sakelsek (Slovenia), Hakan Erdogan (Turkey) and Ozgur Solakoglu (Turkey). ECU Board Member Mr. Gerry Walsh was present as well, honouring the meeting.

TRG Council welcomed the proposal of Jop Delemarre (Netherlands), that FIDE should circulate a letter to all Federations asking for a person to be appointed as a the ‘official contact trainer’ with the TRG. By this action, TRG’s communication and further cooperation with the federations will become easier and more effective.

TRG would also like to thank the EYCC Organising Committee President Mr. Piero Cinciripini for his valuable help in realising this meeting.

With kind regards,

The Chairman The Secretary

Adrian Mikhalchishin Efstratios Grivas

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