FIDE-TRAINER-ACADEMY-BERLIN

FIDE TRAINER ACADEMY BERLIN

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FIDE Trainer Academy

Hanns-Braun-Str Block 6, 14053 Berlin, III. Floor, Area of the Olympic Stadium

Mails: fide-trainerakademie@gmx.de, info@fide-trainer-academy.com
www.fide-trainer-academy.com

International Course for FIDE-Instructor / FIDE-Trainer

1. Aims:
To enable participants to teach
- young and gifted players in schools and chess-clubs and to
- educate Trainers and Chess-Teachers not only in their own countries but also on an
international basis.

2. Dates: 11 – 17 July 2008

3. Location:
FIDE Trainer Academy, Hanns-Braun-Strasse, Kursistenflügel, 14053 Berlin, III. Floor
Email: fide-trainerakademie@gmx.de and info@fide-trainer-academy.com or
German Chess Federation, Hanns-Braun-Strasse, Friesenhaus I, 14053 Berlin
phone +49 (0) 30 30007812, fax: +49 (0) 30 30007830, email: info@schachbund.de

4.   Participants / Qualification:
4.1 FIDE Instructor
       - Proof of at least 2 years activity as a trainer
       - A minimum rating of 1800
4.2 FIDE Trainer
       - Proof of national trainer education and recommendation for participation by the
         national federation
       - Proof of at least 5 years activity as a trainer
       - A minimum rating of 2300 over a period of time

5. Total of Participants:
Maximum of 16 trainers (due to the limited space, applications will be accepted on a first-come first-serve basis).

6.   Order of Events and Contents (preliminary):
Friday              11 July 2008    19:00-20:30 hrs inauguration and lesson
Saturday          12 July 2008    course lessons
Sunday             13 July 2008    course lessons
Monday            14 July 2008    course lessons, visit Berlin
Tuesday           15 July 2008    course lessons
Wednesday      16 July 2008    demonstration lessons, defence of the trainer papers
Thursday          17 July 2008    departure,

Basic Contents and Lecturers
- Structures and duties of FIDE and ECU (Horst Metzing, Secretary General ECU)
- Modern training teaching: How to instruct strategy and tactics in all three stages of the game
       (GM Yuri Razuvaev/GM Adrian Mikhalchishin, GM Uwe Boensch)
-   Psychological/pedagogical competence of the chess trainer and social-psychological
       performance training with feedback (PD Dr. habil. Marion Kauke, Psychologist)
-   Computer aided electronic teaching and learning measures with current ChessBase programme
       (IM Michael Richter)

7. Lectures / Exercises:
The FIDE Instructor course takes up 35 hours; the FIDE Trainer course 40 hours. The courses will be conducted in the English language and a lesson hour equals 45 minutes.

8. Trainer Certificate / Diploma:
After successful graduation from the educational course, each participant will receive a certificate as FIDE Instructor/FIDE Trainer, and after that, the official diploma from the FIDE if the following conditions and special FIDE fee are fulfilled:

8.1     FIDE Instructor
8.1.1 Proof of at least 2 years activity as a trainer
8.1.2 A minimum rating of 1800
8.1.3 Proof of teaching ability given by a demonstration lesson
          (spoken in English or other FIDE language)
8.1.4 Proof of successful participation of the trainer course

8.2     FIDE Trainer
8.2.1 Delivery of a trainer paper in English or other FIDE language (approx. 12 pages long)
          or proof of an earlier publication (book, brochure, specialized article in a chess journal) to
          the administration of the training course by 15 June 2008, at the latest.
8.2.2 Proof of at least 5 years activity as a trainer
8.2.3 A minimum rating of 2300 over a period of time
8.2.4 Proof of teaching ability given by a demonstration lesson, presentation of or defending the
          trainer paper (in English or other FIDE language)
8.2.5 Proof of successful participation of the trainer course

9.   Costs:
9.1 The costs for travel will be borne by the sending federation, club or participant.
9.2 The cost of the course FIDE Instructor/FIDE Trainer is 700 € and includes
         250 € for organisation, hotel accommodation (single room, breakfast and lunch)
         as well as all refreshments and snacks throughout the course, free access to Internet;
         450 € fee for course, handouts, examination.
9.3 Total cost for FIDE Instructor 800 €, for FIDE Trainer 900 €.

(New: According to the resolution of the FIDE Presidential Board until 2007 the account of „Title fees“ - fees for registration, licence, certificate - from each participant not longer should be transferred to the treasurer of FIDE, but has to be payed directly to the responsible trainer academies for each course in full. FIDE-costs are for the title of „FIDE Instructor“100 €, for „FIDE Trainer“ 200 € and for „FIDE Senior Trainer“ 300 €.)

10. Enrolment:
The participants of the course should enrol at:
FIDE Trainer Academy – Deutscher Schachbund e. V.
The costs for the course FIDE Instructor/FIDE Trainer should be transferred to the bank account
of the FIDE Trainer Academy.
Account Holder: FIDE Trainer Academy
Bank: Commerzbank, Account No. 774670403 - Bank Code: 100 400 00
IBAN: DE77 1004 0000 0774 6704 03 - BIC: COBADEFFXXX
Final date for enrolment/payment: 15 June 2008

11. Arrival:
FIDE Trainer Academy: With the underground to the “Olympiastadion Station”, then a 10-minute walk to Hanns-Braun-Strasse, Kursistenflügel. The office of the Europe Chess Union and German Chess Federation is located nearby the same street in “Friesenhaus 1.”

12. Overnight Accommodation:
Bildungsstaette der Sportjugend Berlin, Hanns-Braun-Strasse, house 27, 14053 Berlin,
phone +49 (0) 30 300071-3 (3 minutes near the German Chess Federation and FIDE Trainer Academy)