Talk:International Braille Chess Association

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Three years of founding[edit]

The Oxford Companion to Chess (2d ed., 1992, p. 45) says that Reginald Walter Bonham founded the International Braille Chess Association in 1951. Anne Sunnucks The Encyclopaedia of Chess (1970, p. 221) says R. W. Bonham founded it in 1950. Our article says 1948. Unfortunately the IBCA website doesn't help. Any ideas what we should make of this? We can report all three years in the article, but it would be nicer to get this right. Quale (talk) 05:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is a Reginald Bonham Wiki page, and it says 1951. There is also this website: http://www.braillechess.org.uk/hallfame/bonham.html, which gives 1951. Bruce leverett (talk) 04:29, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Olimpbase website gives 1948. But here is a site that I am inclined to consider authoritative: http://www.schachkomet.de/ibcabuch.htm In the "Historical Information" section it says that IBCA was founded in 1958 with the holding of the first Congress, but in the earlier "Basic Requirements" section it says that IBCA was actually founded in 1951 as a correspondence chess organization (and Bonham was its first secretary). Bruce leverett (talk) 04:54, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Rules, and Blind WC[edit]

The differences in the rules should include that each blind player has (or can have) his own set, so that each player can run his hands over his own set without getting in the way of his opponent's hands.

I know of an individual World Championship organized by the IBCA (it was held in Katerini, Greece in 2014), but I do not know of a Blind Team World Cup. Can someone point me to some information about the Blind Team World Cup?

I am mentioning this on the talk page, so as to avoid obvious blunders later when I can get around to editing the main page. Bruce leverett (talk) 19:40, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]