The Fide Arbiters’ Commission has the pleasure to publish online the sixth issue of the Arbiters’ Magazine.

We continue our effort to provide Arbiters all over the world with necessary knowledge and information coming from real incidents that happened during recent tournaments and thus making them better in exercising their duties.

In this issue we are pleased to cooperate with the Fide Rules Commission and the FIDE Systems of Pairings and Programs Commission.

We would like to thank very much IA Ashot Vardapetyan, IA Tomasz Delega and IA Stewart Reuben, Chairman, Secretary and Councilor respectively of the FIDE Rules Commission and IA Roberto Ricca, Secretary of the FIDE Systems of Pairings and Programs Commission, for their contribution and their inputs.

Of course many thanks belong to the Secretary of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission IA Aris Marghetis, who was responsible for this 6th issue of the Arbiters’ Magazine, as he was for all the previous issues.

We would like kindly to invite the Arbiters, the Players, the Officials and all chess people to send us their comments, opinions, ideas, and cases that have come to their knowledge and are worth publishing in the Arbiters’ Magazine.

Takis Nikolopoulos
Chairman
FIDE Arbiters’ Commission