26.09.2015 MYSURU: Hearing-impaired deaf chess players, about four scores, from across India have converged on Mysuru to try their luck in 11th National Deaf Chess Championship tournament that commenced here on Saturday.
This is for the first time Karnataka Association of the Deaf (KAD) is hosting the tournament in Karnataka.
KAD-Mysuru Chapter president R Ramegowda told STOI that a total of 80 players from New Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, including 25 girls are participating in the two-day contest. Four players are from Karnataka.
Ramegowda (65), a retired teacher of a deaf school, is assisting the organizers - All India Chess Federation of Deaf, New Delhi and Karnataka State Federation of Deaf, Bengaluru, in the tournament at Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry.
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