India got 19 FIDE Licensed Chess Trainers!
Written by content team 28 May 2008
Recently the FIDE Trainer and Instructor Courses was held in India for the first time at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai on May 1. Among the 19 chess trainers who came from all over India, four got FIDE Chess Trainer title, seven obtained the FIDE Chess Instructor title, three received the National Chess Instructor and five took the Development Chess Instructor title.
Few months back, there were just 2-3 Indian names in the FIDE approved Chess Instructors list, which was really very surprising and disappointing. In the last year, LatestChess published an article on FIDE’s Chess Trainers course with all the details of the training program to encourage chess coaches to attend FIDE’s chess training programs.
The courses was conducted by International Master Jovan Petronic of Serbia and FIDE Master Peter Long of Malaysia. Petronic is one of the world’s senior trainers having trained four Yugoslav World Chess Olympiad teams. Peter Long is a Titles given were based on the training capacity of the trainees and also the strength of the players they have trained thus far. A series of tests, some of them comparing to the competitive examinations were held. They were grilled with 243 position to solve in 120 minutes which came to about 45 seconds per problem solving.
International Masters Neeraj Mishra (Jha), G.B. Joshi (Del), FIDE Master V. Hariharan (TN) and K. Visweswaran (TN) received the more prestigious FIDE Trainer title. Woman International Masters Saheli Barua (Ben) and Mrunalinee Kunte (Mah) K. Muralimohan (TN), Prasenjit Dutta (Del), V. Ravichandran (TN), Santanu Lahiri (Ben) and Prasad P Deshmukh (Mah) received the FIDE Instructor titles.
Here is the full article.
That’s cool! Congratulations to all!
When AICf is going to organise Coaching programs for children representing India at International tournament? AICF had annouced vide circular dated Jan 11. They have also annouced few coaches names in march. Summer vacation has gone without coaching. Kids going for Asian Games are going without any special coaching….