The International Braille Chess Association (IBCA) Asian Chess Championship for the Visually Challenged-2017 was inaugurated here on Wednesday. He also won bronze at International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA) 2015, World Individual Chess Championship held at Slovakia in June 2015 and World Individual Chess Championship at Serbia in July 2016. The championship, hosted by Manipal University, is being organised by the All India Chess Federation for the Blind (AICFB) under the aegis of IBCA and All India Chess Federation. However, he regretted that visually challenged chess players were not getting due recognition from the government. Samarth Rao, hailing from Kundapur, brought laurels to the State by winning silver medal in the national-level Physically Disabled Chess Championship held in Tiruchirapally, Tamil Nadu, in April 2015.
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