Just like the Asian Games, the Para Asian Games has a sport where athletes compete with their minds, not their bodies. Chess is a mind sport. Chess was first recognized as an official sport at the 2018 Para Asian Games in Indonesia and retained its status at the 2022 Para Asian Games in Hangzhou. South Korea has its own Para chess players. Kim Min-ho (23, Korea Chess Federation) is South Korea’s first Para chess national champion. After failing to send a chess player to the 2018 Games in Indonesia, Kim is back on the roster this time around. He has been playing chess since he was in elementary school and has been competing in non-disabled organizations since then, and recently received the Taeguk mark at the request of the Korean Para Sports Federation.
His path to Hangzhou has taken many twists and turns. For Kim, competing in the Para Asian Games was a big challenge. He has congenital muscle degeneration and a weak immune system. As a result, he was unable to compete in international competitions that require a grueling schedule. But Kim Min-ho didn’t want to miss the opportunity. Gathering his courage, Kim boarded a flight to Hangzhou with the help of his mother, Gong Gong-soon, 55.Ms. Bang acted as his support person and traveled with him to the competition.” Competing in Hangzhou was a risky endeavor for us,” said Ms. Bang. “At first, I wanted to talk him out of it, but he said, ‘I want to do it.’ “Minho made his international debut in the men’s Standard PI (retarded) chess match at the Hangzhou Para-Asian Games on March 23 at the 9th floor of Qiyuan Chess Hall in Hangzhou, China. He played two games, winning one and losing one.
He won the first game but lost the second to Perdaus Maksum (IJN), the silver medalist at the 2018 Indonesia Games. Kim Min-ho played a second day at the same venue on the 24th. He played one match in the morning and one in the afternoon, again going 1-1.With two wins and two losses in two days, Kim earned two points. Playing two games a day is a daunting schedule for Kim, but he still has a long way to go. He has three more Standard matches to play, followed by Rapid (seven total).Standard is a long-breathing game with 15 seconds of extra time for each move in the one-hour time limit, while Rapid is a 20-minute, 10-second shorthanded game. He will have to play two to four games a day until the 28th.Despite the difficulty of winning or losing, Kim’s face is bright .On the 24th, he said, “Playing against players I’ve never met before, I can’t predict them at all, but it’s fun to figure it out.”
After winning the third game in 55 minutes, he said, “The customized strategy I had prepared by looking at my opponent’s movements worked,” explaining that he won by pushing his opponent to the side.Kim is pushing himself to the limit.”I’m physically tired, but I’m holding on with my mental strength,” he said.He plans to keep pushing himself 토토사이트 “Starting with this tournament