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Goa to host world chess meet for blind
PTI
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PANAJI, May 2: Several Grandmasters and International Masters would
attend the World Chess Championship for Blind to be held in Goa in
September.
World team to play in FIDE Olympiad scheduled in Germany in 2008 would
also be selected during the championship, All India Chess Federation
Vice-President Samir Salgaoncar told PTI here on Tuesday.
The President of Maharashtra Chess Association for Blind, Raghunandan
Gokhale, who has taken initiative for the event, said that for the
first time India would hold the event.
"This is the only game where visually disabled have the same rules as
that of the sighted players," Gokhale explained.
International Chess Federation and All India Chess Federation are
organising the event which would be held at a five-star hotel in south
Goa.
About the history of chess for blind in India, Gokhale said, "It all
started in a single room of one of Mumbai Municipal Corporation run
schools in 1998 where every saturday blind chess players used to
practise. This continued for eight years till I met in Spain the
international Braille Chess Association members, who were affiliated
to FIDE," Gokhale said.
Back from Spain, Gokhale, along with his other colleagues organised
National Chess Tournament for Blind at Andheri Sport Complex where 700
contestants participated. Later, the Indian team began participating
in the World Chess Tournament for the blinds, he added.
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