INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITION
These Classification Rules are in accordance with the Asian Paralympic Committee [APC] Sports Assembly Executive Committee for Chess and shall be known as APC Chess.
A competitor is eligible to compete if they have been classified in accordance with the ;
International Blind Sports Association [IBSA] for the visually impaired and shall bereferred to as CLASS CHB1, CHB2 and CHB3;
Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association [CP-ISRA] AND International Wheel[1]chair and Amputee Sports Association [IWAS] and be referred to CLASS CHPI
These rules shall be read in conjunction with the APC CHESS Rules.
PHILOSOPHY
• The purpose of classification is to establish eligibility to compete in disabled sport.
• The players cannot participate on reasonably equal terms in able body sport due to afunctional dis[1]advantage caused by a physical disability.
• The objective of the classification system is to group together those players who eligible according to the following impairments:
1.Visual impairment
2.Loss of muscle power
3.Hypertonia
4.Short stature
5.Loss of limb or limb deficiency
6.Ataxia
7.Athetosis
Players with conditions arising from pain, psychiatric conditions, unstable joint, poor muscle endurance, impaired cardiovascular or pulmonary conditions, chronic fatigue syndromes and myofascial pain are not eligible
Download APC Chess Classification 31_12_21