December 3, 2020 Poland wins the first Chess Olympiad for the Disabled FIDE PRESS RELEASE As the world celebrates the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the first-ever Online Chess Olympiad for players with disabilities came to an end...
FIDE Commission for Disabled (DIS) meeting in Tallinn
The FIDE Commission for the Disabled (DIS) held its first meeting for 2016 in Tallinn, Estonia on 2-3rd June. The main topic was the discussion on new regulations of FIDE DIS events and standardization of all DIS events with...
Disabled Commission’s FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar in Dresden, Germany
From 21 to 24 October 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Dresden, Germany, by the FIDE Commission for Chess for the Disabled (DIS), in cooperation with the German Chess Federation and under auspices of FIDE. The seminar...
World Chess Championship for Disabled 2015 – Winners
The World Chess Championship for Disabled 2015 has come to an end. Lakhdar Mazouz of Algeria, Advisor to the FIDE President in chess development in Africa was an official guest of the Round. He has made the first ceremonial...
World Chess Championship 2015 for Disabled: Round 6
The round was opened by the President of IPCA Zbigniew Pilimon. The game on the Board 1 has seen a boring draw. Thus Alexey Smirnov of Russia keeps half a point lead to a group of three runner ups....
World Chess Championship 2015 for Disabled: Round 5
Round 5 of the championship started in time at 9.30. Two leading chess players with 4 out 4 played Board 1. The defending Champion of 2013 Stanislav Babarykin lost to his opponent Alexey Smirnov. Smirnov is now the sole...
World Chess Championship 2015 for the Disabled: Round 3
World Chess Championship for Disabled 2015 in Dresden is under way. Round 3 started in time and brought positive emotions to all players. The President of ICCD Philip Gardner was present at the beginning of the round and made a...
World Chess Championship for Disabled 2015 – Round 2 and ICCD meeting
Today another great round was played with a few upset on some of the boards. Some players with lower ratings had surprise win against higher rated players. But the one result that put a very positive note on the...
World Chess Championship 2015 for the Disabled
The World Chess Championship 2015 for the Disabled started with the Opening Ceremony in the Philarmonie Hall of the Windham Garden Dresden Hotel at 19:00 on 17th October 2015. This year’s edition has gathered 67 participants from 14 federations....
II.World Chess Championship for Disabled (Dresden, Germany)
Regulations – II.World Chess Championship for Disabled http://www.worldchess-disabled.com/en/ Written by Laura Jordan 17. – 25. October 2015 in Dresden Organizer ZMDI Schachfestival Dresden e.V. Oskar-Mai-Straße 6, D-01159 Dresden Phone: +49 (0)351 416 1629 Fax: +49 (0)351 416 16 39...