Following the elections at the 38th ICCD Congress which took place in Almeria, Spain on Thursday 14th May 2026, ICCD is pleased to announce the election of the new ICCD President, Alfredo Gomez Fernandez [SPAIN] who replaces the outgoing President, Phillip Gardner [ENGLAND] who stepped down after 12 years as the President and 24 years […]

The results of the 20th ICCD World Deaf Team Chess Championships can be found at this link – Roquetas la Mar – this shows the World Men Team Championships – for the other results, you need to go to near the top of the page to see the box ‘Show more tournaments’ – and press […]

The 38th ICCD Congress will take place in Almeria [not at Roquetas de Mar] on Thursday 14th May 2026 Countries planning to send up to 2 delegates to the ICCD Congress will need to send the completed form by 1st May 2026 to ICCD Secretary-General, Ilan Dwek at: iccd.gensecretary@gmail.com to secure place(s) at the Congress […]

While the preparations are underway for the event at Roquetas de Mar, Spain from 6th to 15th May 2026, the ICCD would like to report that there had been 3 different events towards the end of 2025 – details of each would be given at the ICCD Congress on 14th May but below is a […]

On 6th May, ICCD in partnership with Spain – led by Alfredo Gomez of Spain OC will host the 20th ICCD World Deaf Team Chess Championships in Roquetas de Mar covering a variety of chess events – classical, rapid-play & blitz – for players from all over the world! Recently, Alfredo Gomez has set up […]

ICCD is pleased to announce that it will be sending a team of 6 players to participate in this event between October 19 to 26, 2025, in Astana, Kazakhstan, which is being organized by FIDE and hosted by the Kazakhstan Chess Federation. It will be a 6-round Swiss system. This Olympiad will see up to 34 […]

Your national deaf sports federations should by now have received an email with the information about this forthcoming event, which will take place at Roquetas de Mar, Spain from 6th May to 15th May 2026 If your deaf sports federation did not receive my email, kindly let me know on iccd.gensecretary@gmail.com and I can resend […]

ICCD has been working in conjunction with different continents and I list below just for general interest the forthcoming chess events [linked to ICCD] – more details for each of the following events can be found in the Calendar section. If you have any questions, please email me at iccd.gensecretary@gmail.com 20-30 Sept 2025 – Tashkent […]

The ICCD Board would like to thank Holger Mende, who has been looking after the ICCD Finances for the past 11 years since his election in 2014, for his hard work and unwavering support for the deaf chess. He stepped down on 1st July 2025 – while we wish him a happy and long retirement, […]

Next month sees the European Deaf Chess Team championships, held at Trogir, Croatia. See below for the links to the results as it gets updated daily. 2nd European Deaf Team Chess Championships (Men Teams) 2ndEuropean Deaf Team Chess Championships (Women Teams) 1st European Deaf Team Blitz Chess Championship (Men Teams) 1st European Deaf Team Blitz […]