THE I.C.C.D. BULLETIN "MITTEILUNGSBLATT" Number 139, December 2012 The Official Publication of the International Chess Committee of the Deaf Editor: Rafael Pinchas Email address:
[email protected] www.webalice.it/michess/iccd.htm His Excellency Mr. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the FIDE President, with the leadership of the ICSC ( now called the ICCD ), 15th ICSC World Deaf Individual Championships 2012, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 27th September - 7th October 2012. Table of Contents Page Editor's Message 3 ICCD Board Officials 4 FIDE President Met ICCD Board 7 Croatia's Lusic Played vs. Kasparov 9 National Championship Results 10 An Article by Christopher Kreutzer of England 22 New ICCD Grandmasters 23 Chess and Deaflympics Connection 24 New Email Address 24 Deaths 25 Upcoming Events 26 Page 2 EDITOR'S MESSAGE After one year hiatus, we are renewing the publication of this Bulletin. From now on, I am assuming the honor of preparing and editing the Bulletin issue. Hopefully, many of you will enjoy reading each issue. Of course, the comments by you are very welcome and, if necessary, the relevant and worthwhile material and/or comments may be shared with the readers through the upcoming Bulletin issue pages. The years of 2011 and 2012 have been very momentous ones in the history of our international chess organization. In 2011 we witnessed the inauguration of the first ever Asian Team Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in which men's and women's teams from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, India and Kyrgyzstan took part. This year alone our organization's major milestones have been as follows: the 31st ICSC Congress unanimously voted upon and approved the name change of our organization – from now on, it is being called as the International Chess Committee of the Deaf ( at the top of this issue you see a new logo of the I.C.C.D.