At the point when the Greek city of Thessaloniki facilitated the 1988 Chess Olympiad, there was a small child who was watching the procedures intently. Elias Mastoras, 11 then, at that point, had been acquainted with the chess through an improvement project in schools.Kasparov and Karpov were there, Judit Polgar as well. I was in the assigned region, moving the pieces said Mastoras, the director of the IBSA World Visually impaired Football who is likewise a chess FIDE Expert, in a visit with The Hindu here on Thursday.
In 1992, I was among the best wonders from Greece who were taken to Moscow for classes with Grandmaster .However, later, I felt it would be challenging for me to go from FIDE Expert to Grandmaster.
He moved to instructing, which he actually does at his ‘Say Chess’ institute, and .
Later turned into Greece’s public chess mentor for the visually impaired. His visually impaired companion Stratos, who remained with him for quite a long time and who likewise played football, was instrumental in Mastoras evaluating football.
In 1995, there was a worldwide development to have blind football as a game. It was a comprehensive game with thoroughly blind players scoring objectives against located goalkeepers. I chipped in as a goalkeeper and played in the 1999 European title for the to some degree blind in Belarus. However, after a misfortune against a neighborhood group in Athens, he continued .
Interestingly, we currently have female visually impaired footballers with all .
Classifications consolidated to shape public groups. One year from now, we will have the primary ladies’ Big showdown in Birmingham.India will be a piece of this set of experiences. Indian ladies will play their most memorable visually impaired football global in the Asian title which starts here on Friday. Also, one year from now, they will make their Big showdown debut.
Meet Elias Mastoras, the chess player who manages world visually impaired football
At the point when the Greek city of Thessaloniki facilitated the 1988 Chess Olympiad, there was a small child who was watching the procedures intently. Elias Mastoras, 11 then, at that point, had been acquainted with the chess through an improvement project in schools.Kasparov and Karpov were there, Judit Polgar as well. I was in the assigned region, moving the pieces said Mastoras, the director of the IBSA World Visually impaired Football who is likewise a chess FIDE Expert, in a visit with The Hindu here on Thursday.
He moved to instructing, which he actually does at his ‘Say Chess’ institute, and later turned into Greece’s public chess mentor for the visually impaired.
His visually impaired companion Stratos, who remained with.
Him for quite a long time and who likewise played football, was instrumental in Mastoras evaluating football.
In 1995, there was a worldwide development to have blind football as a game. It was a comprehensive game with thoroughly blind players scoring objectives against located goalkeepers. I chipped in as a goalkeeper and played in the 1999 European title for the to some degree blind in Belarus. However, after a misfortune against a neighborhood group in Athens, he continued .
Interestingly, we currently have female visually impaired footballers with all classifications consolidated to shape public groups. One year from now, we will have the primary ladies’ Big showdown in Birmingham.India will be a piece of this set of experiences. Indian ladies will play their most memorable visually impaired football global in the Asian title which starts here on Friday. Also, one year from now, they will make their Big showdown debut.