FIDE Trainers’ Commission

FIDE Trainer Awards 2011

Information - Rules

The FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) is pleased to announce the fourth FIDE Trainer Awards and will continue by honouring the achievements of our most successful colleagues of 2011.

There will be a judges’ panel consisting of seven (7) members, with reputation and knowledge in the field of training:

JUDGE PANEL OF FIDE TRAINER AWARDS 1. Nigel Freeman (Bermuda) - FIDE Treasurer & Executive Director (Chairman) 2. Ali Nihat Yazici (Turkey) - FIDE Vice-President & CIS Chairman 3. Israel Gelfer (Israel) - FIDE Vice-President 4. Adrian Mikhalchishin (Slovenia) - GM/FST * TRG Chairman 5. Jovan Petronic (Serbia) - IM/FST * TRG Councilor 6. Alonso Zapata (Colombia) - GM/FST * TRG Member 7. Smbat Lputian (Armenia) - GM/FST

The panel has been pre-approved by the 2011 FIDE EB (Krakow * 15-22.10.2011) and by the FIDE Executive Director. The awards ceremony will take place during the 2012 FIDE Congress. A ‘Tree of ’ sculpture (http://trainers.fide.com/awards- hall-of-fame.html) and a diploma will be given to each of the five (5) winners. Each member of the judges’ panel will vote for each of the six categories separately. He will have the right to vote for three persons, giving three (3), two (2) and one (1) point respectively. In case of a tie for the first place, two or more winners will be announced equal first. For the Hall of Fame, the three first trainers will be accepted. We welcome nominations for the five categories that have been approved and these are as follows:

1. Botvinnik Mikhail medal for men’s trainer or captain, for best results in men competitions where World Championships and Olympiads are valued foremost, to be considered too are long standing high results. 2. Furman Symeon medal for women’s trainer or captain, similar to Botvinnik medal but applicable to women’s competitions. 3. Euwe Max medal for juniors trainer, for best results in junior competitions, to be considered are world and continental championships plus founder of famous chess schools, training programs, and academies. 4. Boleslavsky Isaac medal for best book which instructional values are remarkable, and to be considered are also series of articles, instructional computer software, and programs for development of players. 5. Petrosian Tigran medal for a special achievement over the last years.

Nominations can be made by FIDE office bearers, TRG, and Federations. Only FIDE Senior Trainers and FIDE Trainers in exceptional circumstances can be

FIDE/TRG Awards 2011 1 nominated. A special form has to be filled in (see below). For the Boleslavsky medal we invite book publishers and chess software developers as well, to make nominations in this specific category. Prizes will be announced together with the results. Chess Publishers or any sponsor, who is interest on the subject, can offer his views and sponsoring to the TRG. The FIDE Trainers’ Commission will also continue to fill-up the Trainer Hall of Fame. TRG intention is that every year together with the five (5) trainers of the year awards, we will also continue to honour three of our esteemed colleagues with membership of the Trainer Hall of Fame, and besides creating a special place on TRG website (http://trainers.fide.com) to honour them, we will also be finding a permanent home for our Hall of Fame in one or more FIDE Academies worldwide. Please send your nominations via email with biography attached to TRG Secretary Efstratios Grivas ([email protected]) for consideration by June 30th, 2012. The voting will take place by July 15th, 2012 and the winners will be officially announced after the ratification by the coming FIDE EB or PB.

FIDE TRAINERS’ COMMISSION (TRG)

FIDE Trainer Awards 2011 Nomination Paper

Nomination by:

Address/E-mail:

Please, fill up the nominating person and the Justification:

Botvinnik Mikhail

Furman Symeon

Medal Euwe Max

Boleslavsky Isaac

Petrosian Tigran

Please, return the present nomination application to [email protected], by June 30th, 2012.

FIDE/TRG Awards 2011 2 Nominations

FIDE Trainer Awards - Trainers Medals Award N Nominne Country Justification Submitted by

1 Boensch Uwe GER Germany - Gold European TC TRG 2 Jansa Vlastimil CZE Various GM’s High Results TRG Botvinnik 3 Petrosian Arshak ARM Armenia - Gold World TC TRG 4 Tukmakov Vladimir UKR Azerbaijan - Silver European TC TRG 5

1 Arencibia Walter CUB Various WGM’s High Results (Cuba WT) TRG 2 Dokhoian Yury RUS Russia - Gold European TC TRG Furman 3 Eingorn Viacheslav UKR Various WGM’s High Results TRG 4 Khodarkovsky Michael USA Various WGM’s High Results TRG 5 Polgar Susan USA Special Training Girls’ Programs TRG

1 Grabinsky Vladimir UKR GM-School TRG 2 Grivas Efstratios GRE Various GMs/IMs (see attached) TRG Euwe 3 Gurevich Mikhail TUR Gold - WYCC U.20 (Swiercz D.) TRG 4 Harandi Khorso IRI Creation of Various Youth Champions TRG 5 Sulypa Aleksandr UKR Gold - WYCC U.20 (Swiercz D.) TRG

1 Aagaard Jacob DEN Attacking Manual 1 & 2 (see attached) Quality Chess 2 Bosch Jeroen NED SOS-Series TRG Boleslavsky 3 Grabinsky Vladimir UKR Test Book (5 Languages) TRG 4 Kuzmin Alexey RUS 64 & NIC Series & Articles TRG 5 Martin Andrew ENG Various Books and DVDs TRG

1 Beliavsky Alexander SLO Trainer of Top-players * Karpov-Kasparov etc. TRG 2 Janovsky Sergey RUS Trainer of Various Juniors in Europe TRG Petrosian 3 Psakhis Lev ISR Trainer of Top-players * Indian National Team TRG 4 Ubilava Elizbar ESP Author & Trainer of Anand, Various Indians TRG 5 Jiangchuan CHN Women Chess - TRG

FIDE Trainer Awards - Hall of Fame Award N Nominne Country Justification Submitted by

1 Collins John USA Author & Trainer TRG 2 Podgaets Mikhail UKR Author & Trainer TRG Hall 3 Razuvaev Yuri RUS TRG Honorary Chairman - Author & Trainer TRG of 4 Shamkovich Leonid USA Author & Trainer TRG Fame 5 Zheliandinov Viktor UKR Author & Trainer TRG 6 7

The Chairman The Secretary Adrian Mikhalchishin Efstratios Grivas

Councillor Councillor Councillor Uwe Boensch Jovan Petronic Michael Khodarkovsky

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