IBCA European Individual Championship (2007)

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🏆 IBCA European Individual Championship (2007)

PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Colin S Crouch, Yuri A Meshkov, Sergey Nikolayevich Krylov, Vladimir Ivanovich Berlinsky, Piotr Dukaczewski, Jaroslav Olsar, Sergej Anatolyevich Wassin, Tadeusz Zoltek, Sergey Grigorchuk, Rafal Gunajew, Lubov Zsiltzova-Lisenko, Eduardo Desanjose Candalija, Christopher Neil Ross, Rasim Nizam, Mihail-Dacian Pribeanu, Ryszard Suder, Aleksandr Romanenkov, Mykhailo Baloha, Sergey N Smirnov, Gavril Draghici Flutur, Kresim Kacic-Karlin, Graham Lilley, Diego Aguilar Sevilla, Milutin Sakic, Frank Schellmann, Marcin Chojnowski, Franc Mlacnik, Juergen Pohlers, Alexey Voronin, Zdzislaw Wojcieszyn, Andrzej Migala, Igor Rosikhin, Selim Altinok, Pal Eros, Zenon Gosek, Alexandru Pirosca, Istvan Vojan, Anna Stolarczyk, Emil Muri, Matej Znuderl, Ramon Garcia Magadan, Gyorgy Nemes, Andreas Ilic, Lukasz Iwancio, Mauro Fratini, Jozsef Denes, Didier Dalschaert, Dominik Szurgot, Hermann Bischoff, Stephen H Hilton, Bengt Ingemar Wikman, Marcus Berggren, William G Armstrong, Herman Jennen, Patrik Berggren, Habibulla Aghalarov, Colin R Chambers, Ismail Demirel, Rainer Fexa, Kerim Altinok, Miroslav Murin, Kari Holmela, Richard Spele, Teodor Lapadatu, Elisabeth Fries, Les Whittle, Jan Boer, Christos Papadopoulos, Levent Aclan, Olle Engstrom, Josefa Spychala, Freddy Gromme, Argiris Koumtsis, Gennadiy Gelman, Panagiotis Konstantinou, Natasha Dalle

Aug-21-07		chessgames.com: Official site: http://www.braillechess.org.uk/ Live coverage: http://www.bcfservices.org.uk/livec... For those who like to watch live chess, the new round is starting right now (8:45am USA Eastern time).

Aug-21-07		Karpova: IBCA = Inthernational Braille Chess Association For blind and partially blind chessplayers (but they try to include every visually impaired chessplayers, e.g. deafblind ones).

Aug-21-07		pawnofdoom: How do blind players play chess? The photos on the official site show players playing with two boards per game, and the pieces for those boards have pegs to go into the holes on the board. How does that work?

Aug-21-07		savagerules: Would a top rank blind player be better than a GM playing blindfolded? It'd be a interesting match maybe.

Aug-22-07		paavoh: <pawnofdoom> The pegs hold the pieces attached to the board while the blind players "feel" the position with their hands. One can distinguish between black and white squares with the latter being just a bit elevated, so the board surface is not even. I once played a blind man in a Swiss tournament in my youth in the 80s, and it was not an easy task to beat him. I had a normal board on which I kept tabs on the position as well. Of course the touch rule did not apply to him :-)

Aug-22-07		pawnofdoom: <paavoh> thanks

Aug-22-07		weary willy: Interested to see Colin Crouch here ... does he now have a sight disability?

Aug-23-07		pawnofdoom: <weary willy> Im pretty sure he does. If he didn't he wouldn't be playing here would he?

Aug-25-07		Mameluk: Should be mentioned, that Czech player Jaroslav Olsar won. Interesting to see so many IM�s in this tournament.

Nov-26-07		Gallicrow: Apparently Colin Crouch had a stroke and is now partially sighted: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/a...

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