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Nitin Shenvi Acquires International Arbiter Title
Nitin Shenvi, of city Pune has acquired
the prestigious title of International Arbiter (IA) in the field of
chess arbiters (Referee). He was awarded the title of International
Arbiter in the latest FIDE Quarterly Presidential Board Meeting which
took place during 24-25 July 2010 at Tromso, Norway.
He is the third person from Pune to acquire this title after Mr.
Moreshwar Bhagwat and Mr. Thorat. He also is the seventh IA from
Maharashtra and the youngest in these seven IA’s. At this meeting there
were also some other Indians who were awarded with various titles. They
were Padmini Rout getting the WGM title, Vaibhav Suri and Somak Palit
getting the IM title and Soundaramurthy D of Tamilnadu also getting the
IA title.
Mr. Nitin Shenvi started his career as a chess arbiter in the year 2006.
Initially, he learnt basic pairing from Joseph D’souza. He stood 2nd in
first Senior Arbiter examination, held by All India Chess Federation
2007. Last year, he received FIDE Arbiter Title, from FIDE. He acted as
arbiter in ten international events to date namely Asian Team Chess
Championship at Kolkata 2009, Commonwealth Chess Championship at
Nagpur-2008 & Delhi-2010 and seven International Norm Tournaments in
various parts of India.
He was very well trained by IA Prof. R Ananthram (Member, SPP
Commission, FIDE), IA Mr. K Muralimohan (Ratings Officer of India), IA
Mr Dharmendra Kumar and IA Mr. Moreshwar Bhagwat (Treasurer, Maharshtra
Chess Association). He said that he also owes this title to Mr. D V
Sundar (Hon. Secretary, All India Chess Federation (AICF) & Member,
Executive Board, FIDE), Mr. Bharat Singh (Treasurer, AICF and President
World Zone 3.2 FIDE), Mr. Ravindra Dongre (Vice President, AICF & Deputy
President, Commonwealth Chess Association), and Gm Abhijit Kunte for
their continuous backing and support in this field.
Mr. Nitin Shenvi is an employee of the University of Pune working in the
Electronic Science Department. His educational qualification is as
follows - the degrees of BSc (Physics), BSc Applied (Advanced
Electronics), M.Sc.PPPR and M. Phil from Pune University and post
graduate diploma PGDCA from Bombay Technical Board. His activities in
chess and education is very well supported and encouraged by Prof.
Arvind Shaligram, & Prof. Subhash Ghaisas both who have been present and
former HoD of the Electronic Science Department, and the director,
University Sports Department, of the Pune University.
Other seven IA from Maharashtra - (Awate
Avinash, Bhagwat MD, Bahadure TN, Adv Bade AA, Thorat VN, & Mangal
Kashinath).
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