ICCD is continuing supporting Ukraine’s plight and have been in constant touch with the Ukrainian Deaf Sports Federation. As of 24th March 2022, the Chess Technical Director, Volodymyr Kovalenko, has given us an update of the whereabouts of some of their players: Filippskikh, Alexey – Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine; Zabolotny, Volodymyr – Oslo, Norway; Pokotaev, Vladislav […]

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Chess greetings, all deaf chess friends! ICCD has recently been besieged by requests from all over the world either through deaf chess federations or deaf chess individuals. ICCD can understand the growing frustration among certain parties, and wish to apologise for the delay in responding. This cannot be helped given the limited resources and severe […]

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Chess Friends! We have finally assembled lists of registered participants for the 1st European Chess Rapid Play / Blitz Championships to be held in Cordoba, Spain on 27th March – 2nd April 2022.  Please visit the link on chess-results.com: ps://chess-results.com/tnr617193.aspx?lan=2&art=0&turdet=YES&flag=30 ICCD wishes to thank you all for your patience with the unfortunate delay due to the war situation that has […]

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Dear Sports Friends, Dear World Community. The war in Ukraine has been going on for 10 days now. Besides Ukrainian defenders, civilians continue to die: children, women, and aged people. Fleeing from missile and bomb attacks, many deaf Ukrainian athletes, in order to save their lives and their families, have abandoned their homes and went […]

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