Blind Chess Olympiad
Introduction The '''Blind Chess Olympiad''' is an international chess competition for the blind in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event takes place every four years, and is sponsored by the International Braille Chess Association. The Blind Chess Olympiad is the largest sporting event in the international field of chess for the visually impaired.
History The forerunner to the Blind Chess Olympiads was a blind chess tournament held in Rheinbreitbach, Germany, in 1958.The winner of the event was Reginald Walter Bonham, who would found the International Braille Chess Association. The first official Blind Chess Olympiad was held in 1961 in Meschede, Germany. Eight teams competed to play 122 games in round-robin format with Team Yugoslavia as the resulting winner. For the third Blind Chess Olympiad in 1968, held in Weymouth, England, 20 teams competed. Russia won the event with Yugoslavia in second place. The Polish team arrived by train in the early hours of the morning bringing with them the body of their sighted translator who had died en route (Reference: Organizer, John Graham).By the 2008 13th Blind Chess Olympiad in Heraklion, Crete, 34 teams participated, making the Blind Chess Olympiad the most significant sporting event in the international field of chess for the blind to date.
Results  #  Year  City  Winner  1  1961  Meschede, Germany    2  1964  Kühlungsborn, Germany    3  1968  Weymouth, United Kingdom    4  1972  Pula, Croatia    5  1976  Kuortane, Finland    6  1980  Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands    7  1985  Benidorm, Spain    8  1988  Zalaegerszeg, Hungary    9  1992  Majorca, Spain   10  1996  Laguna, Brazil   11  2000  Zakopane, Poland   12  2004  Tarragona, Spain   13  2008  Heraklion, Greece   14  2012  Chennai, India   15  2017  Ohrid, North Macedonia   16 2021Rhodes, Greece
See also * Chess variants
References
External links *  Olympiads results at IBCA website