Mallika Handa wins silver at international deaf chess championship

Mallika Handa struck silver at the International Chess Committee of the Deaf (ICCD)‘s World Deaf Blitz Chess Championship held in July in Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Handa has been campaigning for the inclusion of chess in the Winter Deaflympics to be held in 2019.
Handa was given a grand reception by the Jalandhar district administration when she came back after winning the silver. Senior district officials were waiting to meet her at the railway station. She was also garlanded by sports fans.

Officials said that it was a matter of pride that Handa had won an international-level medal.

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