The day when we lost the game😒😓👎♟

As you may know I have been playing chess for many years, specifically in the league for visually impaired people, since 2012 I have been part of the national team we all together have been able to represent the country on many occasions and always bringing excellent results. Our most outstanding performance was in Bulgaria 2018 in the World Team Cup in which we obtained the best performance in the history of Venezuela and we got the 6th place, an extremely important position, an achievement that makes us the best team in America over other powers such as USA, Canada, among others.

This article has two parts which I decided to call: "the objective part" and the "subjective part". The first one of course, is the written part where you will see all the results we have had as a team, so you will come across with lot of standings, tables and more "numbres". The second part is the subjective part, more specifiaclly is a video where I am talking about how this situation is bothering us as a team.

The thing is that despite the brilliant performances we have had throughout our career we have always had problems when it comes to travel, either by budget, poor organization or some other reason unrelated to the sport, has always been a headache, much of this is because unfortunately chess is not among the priority sports that the State attends, that is, as chess is not part of the Olympic Games the economic resources that are allocated to this discipline do not cover all the expenses.

The reason why I make this post is to let off some steam, the truth is not easy ... At this time is playing the "16th IBCA Chess Olympiad for the Blind and Visually Impaired 2021" an event that Venezuela could not go, sincerely our team had great chances, maybe we could have been among the best players in the world once again, but sometimes it is not enough to play good chess, maybe it is unfair but it is the reality.

I want to talk a little about my team and the progress it has made in the last few years, I hope you like it.

This image was created by EN Monica Navarro - 2020

TATA 14th IBCA World Chess Olympiad for the Blind and Visually Impaired 2012, India

This was my first tournament out of my country, inf fact the first time I went out of it, in this time I just played one game since I was the reserve player.

In this event the Venezuelan team arrived late due to the lack of expediting resources and two rounds were lost by forfait and in the third round there was a Bye of half a point so the team starts to play the tournament from the fourth round, for all the details mentioned above, the team obtained the eighth place. Check the following link to see the whole results of the event:

14th IBCA World Chess Olympiad for the Blind and Visually Impaired 2012, India