Senior TD Certification Question

Running Chess Tournaments
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  1. Why would an IA/FA from England be a US Chess Senior TD? Also, IA/FA have fairly light experience requirements. (The tournaments have to be longish; longer than would be typical in the U.S., but not as numerous as are required for Senior TD). US Chess has decided to add the requirement that new nominees have to be (at least) Senior TD’s.
  2. Even for someone from the U.S., IA/FA is a life-time title as long as you pay license fees—you aren’t required to have continuing experience. So an IA/FA who has been a U.S. Senior TD but has lapsed due to lack of continuing experience would be covered by this.
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They likely wouldn’t. I’m still not sure what you are trying to argue here.

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OK, I didn’t know that. But your proposed rule could be better phrased. “In US Chess” is a bit ambiguous. It might be clearer to say “For US Chess members, …” – because it’s certainly possible to become a FIDE Arbiter (at whatever level) without being a US Chess member at all, and that distinction might be lost with your proposed phrasing.

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The current rules uses the phrase “In US Chess” and I guess I just kept that wording.

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Perhaps, instead of:

– you could say:

TD TIP: All TDs listed on the US Chess rating report of FIDE/US Chess rated tournaments (or FIDE/US Chess rated sections of a tournament) must be certified by both FIDE and US Chess at levels sufficient to allow them to act as TDs in the tournament (or sections).

Bill Smythe

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Nice wording Bill.

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If you look at rule 29e you will find that foreign FAs/IAs that want to become US Chess members and direct US Chess tournaments can become CTDs and then attain the comparatively minimal requirements to take the SrTD test. At that point they can direct category I events even though they are not yet SrTDs. If they are only CTDs then they are limited to tournaments small enough for CTDs to direct as US Chess rated events (though those small tournaments can be category I since they are already FAs/IAs).

Since you need to already be a SrTD before US Chess lets you take our country’s NA test, it is not applicable to home-grown TDs.

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I’m not trying to “argue” anything. I was trying to answer your question, which I think I did. Thank you for taking a sentence out of context.

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Tom Doan’s point may have been that his “majority” of FIDE arbiters who are not U.S. Chess members would not be eligible to direct FIDE/U.S. Chess-rated events anyway, because U.S. Chess requires that TDs of FIDE/U.S. Chess-rated events be certified by both organizations.

Bill Smythe

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Would it be possible to just go ahead and also take the FIDE NA exam at the National Open as well, assuming I pass the US Chess Senior TD exam?

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Any TD who passes the Senior TD test, and is registered with FIDE as USA, can apply to receive the US Chess FIDE NA exam. Where you choose to do the exam is up to you, but there wouldn’t be a need to have a proctor and do it closed book.

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That is a question for the FIDE Events committee (I’m not on it).