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GOMSA Deputy President – David Sedgwick

[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_sidebar area=”et_pb_widget_area_1″ _builder_version=”3.0.100″][/et_pb_sidebar][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.2.2″]David Sedgwick was born on 5th May 1954 in Pinner, Middlesex, England. He was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon, and Queens’ College, Cambridge, and worked in investment management for thirteen years.

He has thirty years’ experience as a chess arbiter, both domestically and within the International Chess Federation (FIDE). He became a BCF Arbiter in 1986, a FIDE International Arbiter in 1994, and a BCF Senior Arbiter in 1997.

At the FIDE Congress in Turin in 2006 he was appointed as a member of the Arbiters’ Council (now the Arbiters’ Commission) and he served thereon until 2010. At the same Congress he was appointed as one of the original members of the Approved List of Lecturers for FIDE Arbiters’ Seminars.

In the 1990s he helped in the administration of the first five World Amateur Championships at Hastings. In October 2004 he was the Chief Arbiter of the inaugural World Senior Team Championship held on the Isle of Man. He was an arbiter at the top section of the Turin Olympiad in May and June 2006.

In February 2013 he was a player and a lecturer at the Gambian Chess Festival, which marked that country’s return to international chess after an absence of over 25 years. Following the Festival he was appointed as the Chief Arbiter of The Gambia Chess Federation in June 2013.

He reached the then pinnacle of his career as a chess arbiter when in March and April 2013 he was the Deputy Chief Arbiter of the FIDE Candidates Tournament in London, which determined the Challenger for the World Championship Match in November 2013. Following the Candidates Tournament he was appointed as a Category A International Arbiter.

He was the Deputy Arbiter of the London Chess Classic from its inception in 2009 until 2015.

He was a member of the arbiting team at the first thirteen of the Gibtelecom and Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festivals, from 2003 to 2015.

He was the Chief Arbiter of the Guernsey International Chess Festival for ten years, from 2006 to 2015. In April 2015 he was the Chief Arbiter of the 4th European Small Nations Team Championship in Guernsey.

On 28th July 2015 it was announced that he was to receive the ECF President’s Award for Services to Chess. ECF President Dominic Lawson presented the Award to him on 4th February 2016, at the closing dinner of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival.

In August 2015 he made his first ever trip to the southern hemisphere when he was invited to conduct a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar in Gaborone, Botswana. This attracted twenty-seven attendees from four countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Seventeen of the attendees were successful in the examination test.

On 6th January 2016 it was announced that he had been appointed as the Chief Arbiter for the Grand Chess Tour 2016, a series of four tournaments to which ten of the world’s top players have been invited. In August 2016, he will also be the Chief Arbiter for one of the four GCT events, the 4th Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, USA.

In bridge, he is a County Director of the English Bridge Union.

In the Mind Sport of Memory, and he has officiated at numerous UK Open Memory Championships and World Memory Championships.

In July 2013 he was the Chief Arbiter at the 1st Philippines National Memory Championships in Manila. In August 2013 he was appointed as a Level 2 Arbiter. From 30th November to 2nd December 2013, he officiated at the World Memory Championships, on this occasion in his home town, Croydon.
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