Chess is for Everyone!

Hello Everyone and welcome to my second blog!

Thank you in advance for reading through.

Let me introduce to you to another real life story.

Around 10 years ago or so on another chess platform i used to play, you could tell how distant from you the opponent was in kilometers!

I still believe that was an awesome feature, but more to the point, i once noticed that my opponent was 8 km from me. which practically meant he was in the same city as me!

I found it strange since i knew all the chess players of the city but not him.
Every day after midnight we would play for over 2 hours and through those times we became friends and asked more of our personal life to each other.

He was handicapped (not able to walk and in a wheelchair) that's how he started playing chess to pass his time.

He kept stating real chess isn't for him ,just online. due to how people would perceive him in a wheelchair.

After 6 months i managed to convince him to come to a chess tournament of the city, his first ever.

Unfortunately, the tournament was in the 4th floor and the elevator was out of order!

He arrived to the tournament with his wheelchair and stared at the stairs above, knowing he will never make it up there and he will never play the first tournament of his life.

His dream, faded on those moments.

That's when me and a friend decided to move him with the wheelchair for over 4 floors of stairs, by ourselves unfortunately it was too hard to lift him but thankfully other chess players joined and finally he arrived on the tournament hall and played his first ever tournament

He was getting lifted back and forth for 4 days .

His tournament result wasn't the best but in the ending ceremony he was smiling even more than the winner himself.

He had found a new world he could join despite his health issues.
or as he described , in those 4 days he did something noone else has experienced . he 'flew'

He continued playing chess and the year after that he managed to even become Chess Blitz Champion under 1700 .

Chess is for everyone of us!

Have you ever been in a tournament where you have seen players by themselves in a corner?

Have you ever been in a tournament where you see handicapped people or blind by themselves?

Make a step towards the right direction and go talk to them, you could actually make their day, to make them feel good again.

Thank you for reading my blog,

I wish you all a great day ahead!

Until Next time!