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R. Anantharam, International Arbiter (First A grade IA from India)

Chief arbiter for international tournaments
  • • World Junior Chess Championships, Chennai 2011, 2013 and 2016.
  • •World Schools Chess championships. – Singapore, 2008
  • • World Youth Olympiad 2017
  • • World Team Championships for Blind 2012
  • • Commonwealth Chess Championships., Delhi 2008, 2010 and 2012
  • • Asian Youth Chess Championships. Delhi 2009
  • •Asian Senior Chess Championships, Lebanon 2010
  • •Asian Amateur Chess Championships, Lebanon 2010
  • •Asian Junior Chess Championships, Mumbai 2007, Chennai 2008, Sri Lanka 2009 and Chennai 2010
  • •Asian Team championships, Kolkata 2009
  • •Asian Men Championship, Hyderabad 2005
  • •Women Grand Prix, Russia 2016
  • •TATA Steel Chess India 2018
  • •TATA Steel Chess Kolkata 2018 & 2019
Chief arbiter for National Championships
  • • National Premiers Visakhapatnam 2005, Atul 2006, Chennai 2007. Mangalore 2008
  • • Mumbai 2009, Delhi 2010, Aurangabad 2011, Kolkata 2012, Jalgaon 2013, Kottayam 2014, Tiruvarur 2015, and Patna 2017
  • • National Women Premier Kolkata 2013
  • •National Team championships Vijayawada 2003, Pondicherry 2007, Gurgaon 2010,Bhopal 2017, Kolkata 2019 Ahmedabad 2020
  • • National Challengers (B) Vijayawada 2004
  • • National Under 25, Vijayawada 2003
  • • National Junior Sivakasi 1999, Thirupathi 2004, Sivakasi 2005
  • • National Under 18 Chennai 2002, Vijayawada 2003
  • • National Sub Junior Sivakasi 1996, Visakhapatnam 2007
  • • National Under 12 & 14, Chennai 2002
  • • National Cities, Visakapatnam 2009
  • • National Rapid, Hyderabad 2009, Ahmedabad 2018
  • • National Blitz, Vijayawada 2003
  • • National Schools, Nagpur 2016 and 2017
  • • National Under 7, Tumkur 2018,Pondicherry 2016
Deputy chief arbiter for international tournaments
  • • World Youth Chess Championships – Turkey 2009 and Vietnam 2008
  • • Asian Youth Chess Championships, Philippines 2011, UAE 2007 and Iran 2008
  • • Asian Indoor Games, Vietnam 2009
  • • Asian Cities, Indonesia 2011
  • • Commonwealth Chess Championships, South Africa 2011
  • • Asian Team championships, Visakhapatnam 2007
  • • Chief of Indian delegate – World Youth Chess Championships, Brazil, 1995
  • •Indian team manager – British Chess Championships, London, 2002
Served as Chess Technical Official in
  • • Asian Games – China 2010
  • • World Mind Sports, China 2008
  • •Asian Cities Indonesia 2011
  • • Asian Indoor Games – China, 2007, Vietnam 2009, Korea 2014,Turkmenistan 2017
  • • World Cities Chess Championships, Al Ain 2012
  • • Asian Chess Championships, Al Ain 2015
  • • Asian Team Championships Abu Dhabi 2016
Chairman, Arbiters’ Commission in
  • • All India Chess Federation
  • • International Braille Chess Association
  • •Tamil Nadu State Chess Association
Asian Chess Federation
  • •Member, Arbiters’ Council
World Chess Federation
  • • Member, Arbiters’ Commission (former Councilor)
  • • Former Member Qualification Commission & SPP (Pairings) Commission
  • • Vice President of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association
  • • First Indian to serve as deputy chief arbiter in World Youth Chess Chps. – Turkey 2007, 2009 and Vietnam 2008
  • •Only Indian to serve as Sector arbiter in three World Chess Olympiads - Norway 2014,Azerbaijan 2016 and Batumi Georgia 2018

R. Gurusamy, Rajapalayam

  • • FIDE Arbiter from 2009
  • •Chief arbiter for State championships
  • •State U 17, Aruppukottai 2002 and Rajapalayam 2004, Sivakasi 2009
  • •State Junior Sivakasi 2007
  • •State Under 9 Hosur 2009 and Erode 2010
  • •Arbiter, ONGC Cup GM tournament, Hyderabad 2006, several national championships, FIDE rated tournaments and state championships.

V. Bala Saravanan, National Arbiter

  • •Arbiter, National Junior championships Sivakasi 1999 and 2005
  • •Arbiter, Inter Petroleum tournament, Ooty 2008
  • •Arbiter for many state championships

B. Sridhar, National Arbiter

  • •Arbiter, National Junior championships Sivakasi 1999 and 2005
  • •Arbiter for many state championships

P. Arumugam, FIDE Arbiter

  • •Tamil Nadu Team Manager for National Team Championships Bhopal 2017 , Kolkata 2019 and & Ahmedabad 2020.
  • •Arbiter for several rating tournaments, state and national championships

Number of Arbiters in the District

International Arbiter  1 FIDE Arbiter  1 SNAs  21 State Arbiters  

Arbiters of Virudhunagar District

International Arbiter
1 Anantharam R 1949 25016148 Sivakasi 94431 55852 2001
FIDE Arbiter
1 Arumugam P 1984 25745271 Rajapalayam 81221 63268 2020
FA Exam Passed Arbiters / SNAs
1 Abinaya G - - Virudhunagar 2023
2 Bala Saravanan V - - Sivakasi 94867 20515 2006
3 Ganesh Pandi A.T - - Sivakasi 98437 57767 2023
4 Gangadharan G - 33420050 Sattur 97881 54640 2023
5 Hariraj K 1992 5058317 Virudhunagar 98432 84880 2015
6 Inba Rajalingam - - Sivakasi 70106 56213 2022
7 Jegathees M - - Thiruthangal 73056 55834 2022
8 Jeyam Subbaiah C - 45023786 Sivakasi 99655 25501 2022
9 Kishore SV - 45073856 Sivakasi - 2023
10 Manichselvam J - 25703366 Virudhunagar 99432 94411 2015
11 Nagaraj M - - Rajapalayam 88834 41773 2022
12 Ramar P 1983 - Aruppukottai 97887 27426 2022
13 Rani I 1984 - Sivakasi 70102 77986 2023
14 Sargurunathan 1977 - Virudhunagar 81240 33338 2015
15 Sajan J 2005 45009880 Sivakasi 98436 69670 2023
16 Shenbagarajan M 1981 48724580 Thiruthangal 81057 12341 2023
17 Sridhar B - - Sivakasi 94436 60131 2006
18 Subramanian S 1979 25932160 Virudhunagar 9842533980 2023
19 Sundar Rajan M 1967 5096820 Virudhunagar 94870 51730 2013
20 Vasantha Kumar - - Srivilliputtur 89035 64856 2023
21 Vigneshwaran K - 45024260 Sivakasi - 2023
State Arbiters
1 Abinaya D - - - 73588 91195 2020
2 Alex Sundar Singh - - Sivakasi 94428 89682 2014
3 Anitha G - - - - -
4 Anitha P - - - 94889 37449 -
5 Arockia Akalya - - Rajapalayam 99444 16240 2019
6 Arputha Raj J - - Sivakasi - 2014
7 Balaji K - - Sivakasi 97904 83875 2014
8 Chitravel K - - Aruppukottai - 2018
9 Deepa S - - - - 2019
10 Gajalakshmmi P - - Sivakasi - 2014
11 Kalidass C 1963 5036380 Sivakasi - 2014
12 Kalusulingam G - - Aruppukottai 93448 66831 2018
13 Kannan K - - Virudhunagar - 2014
14 Maheswari R - - - - 2018
15 Murugan K 1970 35084356 Rajapalayam 94432 10918 2014
16 Muruganantham M - - Rajapalayam - 2014
17 Murugeswari .E - - Sr1vi 99948 64179 2020
18 Muthu S - - Rajapalayam 94876 90257 2014
19 Muthulakshmi P - - Aruppukottai - 2018
20 Muthumani P 1987 - Rajapalayam 89252 07135 2014
21 Muthumani R - - Rajapalayam 99764 07640 2015
22 Narendran Kamak N - - Sivakasi 98434 26884 2015
23 Palani Durai S - - Sivakasi 94431 62754 2014
24 Palaniyandi - - Aruppukottai 94431 62754 -
25 Panjammal - - Aruppukottai - 2014
26 Panneerselvam A - - Rajapalayam 7871231007 2015
27 Pradeepa P - - Rajapalayam 9710611149 2019
28 Raghavan K - - Rajapalayam 99528 68700 2014
29 Rajkumar U - - Rajapalayam 98420 94377 2018
30 Ramachandran V - - Rajapalayam 97903 13597 -
31 Santhiya D - - - 97913 57604 2019
32 Sathiyaraj A - - Sivakasi - 2014
33 Subramanian - - Rajapalayam 89039 68137 2014
34 Sukumar R - - - - 2018
35 Sumathi R - - Sivakasi 99522 91074 2014
36 Sundara Rajan K - - Srivi 99522 91074 2014
37 Thanasekar SVPNS - - Virudhunagar - -
38 Vanitha G - - - - 2018

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