Events

Past Events

Open National chess Tournament for the visually impaired chess player at Bangalore from 7th to 9th August 2015. For more details contact H.J.Naveen Mobile 09538206102 email:[email protected]

• Vasai Taluka Kala Krida Vikas Mandal Presents _ AICFB NATIONAL ‘A’ CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE BLIND held in Vasai, District Thane, Maharashtra from 23rd February to 03rd March 2014. For more details and results click here.

• AICFB NATIONAL ‘B’ CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE BLIND held in Mumbai, Maharashtra from 29th January to 1st February 2014. Read more

• Circular_ FIDE Rating National Open Chess Tournament for the Blind, Kolkata, West Bengal_2013
  
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• Circular – South Zone Selection chess tournament, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, 2013

• Circular – West Zone Selection chess tournament, Amravati, MAHARASHTRA 2013
• Circular – East Zone Selection chess tournament, Nadia, West Bengal 2013

• FIDE Rating Open Chess Tournament for the Blind, 2013, Hydrabad from 14th May to 18th May, 2013
  Final Result list of this Tournament

• National ‘A’ FIDE Rating selection Chess Championship for the blind,2013(Bhuvneshwar)

• National ‘B’ FIDE Rating Selection Chess Championship for the Blind, 2012 (Bhuvneshwar)

• West Zone Selection chess tournament, Nanded, MAHARASHTRA 2012

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS ORGANIZED BY AICFB

• 14th IBCA Chess Olympiad 2012
• 11th Individual World Chess Championship for the Blind 2006 (8-19 October 2006)
• Asian Chess Championships for the Blind – (3-10 December 2003)

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

• Individual World Chess Championship for the Blind for the first time, which was held in Bruno, Czech Republic (3-13 July 1998). The Players who represented India were Swapnil Shah, Madan Bagayatkar, Sanjay Karandikar and Charudatta Jadhav
• Irish Open at Cork, Ireland (9-12 October 1998). This was the first time that Indian players, namely Mr. Charudatta Jadhav & Mr. Shirish Patil, won the prizes at an international tournament. The players who represented India were Shirish Patil,Charudatta Jadhav,Sanjay Karandikar,Madan Bagayatkar & Swapnil Shah
• World Junior Chess Championships for the Blind held in Kortrijk, Belgium (21-30 August 1999) participated by Gaurav Gadodia
• Individual World Championship, which was held in Benaske, Spain (11-21 July 2000)
• Chess Olympiad for the Blind held in Zakopane, Poland (28 August – 8 Sept 2000). Madan Bagayatkar bagged a Bronze medal on board no. 2 and became the first blind chess player in India to win a medal at the Olympiad
• Junior World Chess Championship for the visually impaired, which was held in Alicante, Spain (3-12 July 2001) Gaurav Gadodia(Mumbai) & Rakesh Kumar Narwal(Haryana)
• International DBSB Jubliee chess tournament, which was held in Germany (4 to 12 Aug. 2001)
• Team World Championship for the Visually Impaired, which was held at Dusseldorf, Germany (7-17 October 2001)
• Feminine World Chess Championship for the Visually Impaired, the first-ever Indian Women’s Team, held in Tarragona, Spain (5-15 November 2001)
• Individual World Chess Championship for the Blind, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey (19-29 November 2002)
• World Junior Chess Championship at Spain from 27th Aug to 7 Sept 2003 Laxmi Adhikari (West Bengal) and P. Kalishekhar (Andha Pradesh).
• Conducted first ever Asian Chess Championship for the Blind in Mumbai (7-15 December 2003). Yemen, Nepal, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Iran & India participated in this tournament. This was the first International Chess tournament for the blind in the history of India
• XII World Team Chess Championship for the Visually Impaired at Tarragona, Spain in (1-14 November 2004)
• Feminine World Championship for the Blind in Greece in (2-12 July 2005) Shobha Lokhande, Indira Gilbile & Vaishali Salavkar.
• Junior World Championship for the Blind in Greece in (2-12 July 2005) Shivshekhar Kola (Andhra Pradesh).

NATIONAL & ZONAL EVENTS ORGANIZED BY AICFB
National Chess Championship Tournaments were organized in the city of Mumbai:

• FIDE Rating National Open Chess Tournament for the blind 2012, Hydrabad (30th May to 3rd June 2012)
• East Zone Chess Championship for the blind 2012, Bhuwneshwar (27th to 29th April 2012)
• National Women Chess Championship for the Blind, 2012
• National Junior Chess Championship for the Blind, 2012
• FIDE Rating National Open Chess Tournament for the Blind 2012
• National Chess Championship (23-27 June 1999)
• National ‘B’ Chess Championship (5-9 June 2000)
• National ‘A’ Chess Championship for the Blind (3-16 December 2000)
• National ‘B’ Men’s & Women’s Chess Championship for the Blind (14-18 October 2001)
• National ‘A’ Chess Championship for the Blind (17-29 May 2002)
• Junior national chess for the Blind ( 13 to 16 July 2003)
• National ‘B’ Chess Championship for the Blind (23-27 May 2004)
• National ‘A’ Chess Championship for the Men’s & Women’s separately in the month of 1-14 August 2004
• National ‘B’ Chess Championship for the Blind (7-11 November 2005)
• National ‘A’ Chess Championship for the Blind (20-27 February 2006)
• National ‘B’ Chess Championship for the Blind (22 –26 Oct.2007)
• National ‘A’ Chess Championship for the Blind ( 8-16 February 2008) – Tournament Report

Open National

• Open National Chess Championship for the Blind (28 April – 2 May 1998). With 172 participants from 13 states, the tournament was the biggest chess tournament for the blind in India.
• Open National Chess Championship for the Blind (27l – 30 May 2005) at Madurai, Tamilnadu.
• Open National Chess Championship for the Blind (23 – 27 June 2006) at Ambala, Haryana.
• Open National Chess Championship for the Blind (24 – 27 May 2007) at Madurai, Tamilnadu.
• Open National Chess Championship for the Blind (17 – 21 Nov. 2007) at Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
• Open National Chess Championship for the Blind (27 – 30 June 2008) at Chandigarh, Punjab).

Team Championship

• Conducted at Ambala, Haryana from 24 to 27 June 2008.

AICFB Organized Zonal Tournaments

• First cycle of zonal tournament (1998-1999) at Panipat, Nagpur and Tirupati National Chess Championship (21-26 June 1999)
• Second cycle of Zonal tournament (1999-2000) at Ambala, Madurai, Ahmedabad and Jamshedpur
• Third cycle of zonal tournament (2000-2001) at Ambala, Eraguntla, Jamshedpur and Pune
• Fourth cycle of zonal (2003-2004) at Delhi, Pune, Shimoga and Jamshedpur
• Fifth cycle of zonal (2005-2006) at Nashik, Shimoga, Bhubaneshwar and Saharanpur
• Sixth cycle of zonal (2006-2007) at Ahmedabad, Kasargod, Bhubaneshwar and Panipat.

Subpages (4): 10th AICFB National ‘A’ Chess Championship for the Blind, 2014 KIIT CUP-AICFB National ‘A’ Championship for the Blind, 2013, Bhuvneshwar (Orissa) National School Chess Championship for the Visually Challenged – 2016 – Shirdi National Women & National Junior Chess Championship for the Blind, 2012