[custom_adv] IA Shohreh Bayat was appointed as the Chief Arbiter of the Women's World Chess Championship Match between Ju Wenjun and Aleksandra Goryachkina (January 2-24, 2020). Marika Japaridze will be the Deputy Chief Arbiter. [custom_adv] WFM Shohreh Bayat is Asia's first and only female Grade-A arbiter. She has an impressive list of events on her arbiter records, including experience at women's competitions. In 2018, Shohreh Bayat was a Deputy Chief Arbiter at the Women's World Championship. [custom_adv] he second game for the Women's World Chess Championship between Ju Wenjun 🇨🇳 and Aleksandra Goryachkina 🇷🇺 ended in a draw after 40 moves. It was a peaceful affair that ended after a threefold repetition. [custom_adv] Zhao Guangsheng, Deputy General Director of Shanghai Sports Ministry, together with GM Nigel Short, FIDE Vice-President and the on-site commentator for the match, made the first symbolic moves. [custom_adv] This year, ateam of eight arbiters have run all the tournaments –Amateur, Challengers and Gibraltar Masters -during the ten day festival. Theymonitorplay making sure everyone keeps to therules and regulations of play as well as manningand invigilatingall three daily tournaments.Annually the team includes EnglishandSpanisharbiters. [custom_adv] All arbiters arequalified, experienced and recommended.The selection of the team annually is carried out by Mr Conquest and Chief Aribiter Laurent Freydwho has been coming to Gibraltar since 2009 and has been at the head of the Gibraltar Masters since 2010 and of the whole festival since last year. [custom_adv] This year,six nationalities have been represented in thearbitrationteam from France, England, Spain, Estonia, Serbia, Germany and for the first time from Iran. Between them they speak more than 10 languages. [custom_adv] Chess Federation on January 2 expelled veteran female chess grandmaster Mitra Hejazipour for boldly removing her scarf during the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow which is considered as defiance of the compulsory Islamic dress code (hijab). [custom_adv] The 27-year old grandmaster was expelled after gloriously playing for her homeland for eighteen years. She is the first female athlete to represent without wearing the hijab In the four-decade history of the Islamic Republic.
