Official List of Lecturers 2021

The FIDE Trainers Commission (TRG) has begun the process to appoint our official lecturers for 2021 and we will complete this by the end of March 2021:

1	Mikhail Kobalia	FST, GM	RUS
2	Alexander Motylev	FST, GM	RUS
3	Yu Shaoteng	FST, GM	CHN
4	Melikset Khachiyan	FST, GM	USA
5	Sami Khader	FST, IM	JOR
6	Alonso Zapata	FST, GM	COL
7	Antoaneta Stefanova	FST, GM	BUL
8	Jacob Aagaard	FST, GM	SCO
9	Thomas Luther	FST, GM	GER
10	Artur Yusupov	FST, GM	GER
11	Ivan Sokolov	FST, GM	CRO
12	Dejan Bojkov	FST, GM	BUL
13	Ramesh RB	FST, GM	IND
14	Sergey Janovsky	FST, IM	RUS
15	John Donaldson	FST, IM	USA
16	Najer, Evgeniy	FST, GM	RUS

TRG Commission Members and the most active lecturers were first invited to apply (pre-approved).

All remaining lecturers in 2020 were then invited and we will also consider any nominations made by TRG Council members and FIDE Management Board members.

If approved, they will however be required to attend an orientation program to familarise themselves with our teaching curriculum and evaluation system.

We have also invited panelists, experts in subject areas relevant to chess training, and they will also be key resources for our Trainer Professional Education & Development Workshops:

1	Nikolaos Ntirlis	FT	GRE
2	Alexey Root	WIM	USA

The TRG Council of course still reserves the right, on the recommendation of it’s Chairman, to appointed lecturers as needed on a case to case basis to fulfil our work in specific regions and languages.