Ignatius Leong

The Norwegian Chess Federation together with Tromsø Chess Olympiad 2014 and FIDE stages a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar during the Fagernes festival, from May 1 to 6.

Lecturers are such capacities as the FIDE Secretary general IA Mr. Ignatius Leong (Singapore) and IA Alog Burstein (Israel). The practical management of the seminar is handled by IA Mr. Morten Sand, who is legal advisor of the Tromsø olympiad 2014 organisation and a former president of the Norwegian Chess Federation.

The seminar is part of preparations for the Tromsø 2014 chess olympiad. The participants are active and well qualified chess arbiters from Norway and Sweden. The seminar has an extensive daily programme and will be rounded off with a test of the candidates.

We wish the leaders and participants of the seminar Welcome to Fagernes, and good luck!