Ortiz Heading for a Dominican Guinness Record

Ortiz Heading for a Dominican Guinness Record
Santo Domingo, February 17th, 2015

Considered one of the ten best programmers in the world in 2010, Olson Ortiz has now set himself a new goal: to be the first Dominican Guinness Record of Blind Chess.

Olson Ortiz is a renowned professor at the PUCMM University, who began playing chess when he was still very young, playing his first blind game with his brother at age 13. With his self-taught skills, he managed to conquer the field of mathematics, succeeding in representing the Dominican Republic at the Ibero-American Olympics in 1994 in Brazil, and then in 1995 in Chile. His team won third place in Brazil and first place in Chile, and he won an individual bronze medal in Chile.

Chess Guinness Record

This Dominican chess player, Telematics Engineer, programmer and mathematician, has returned after 10 years to accomplish a feat: to beat the record of blind chess. It will consist of a series of 7 simultaneous chess events in which the number of players will increase until it reaches 47 players, whom he will face totally blind.

We invite you to learn more about this project and to become one of the participants in this great event that, without a doubt, will mark a turning point in Dominican chess.

More information may be found at https://www.jompeame.net/es/olson

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