Montenegrin chess player Predrag Nikač finished his performance at the third IBSA World Individual Chess Championship for blind and visually impaired people in Petrovac with a bronze medal.
He finished the championship in the division of first place, and the additional criteria decided that he would receive the bronze.
Nikač, one of the most trophy athletes in the recent history of Montenegro, achieved five victories and four draws.
Additional criteria awarded the gold medal to the Hungarian chess player Zoltan Istvan Zamba, while the silver medal went to the representative of Uzbekistan, Aksadon Kimsanbojev.
In the last round, after a great fight, Nikač won the victory against the representative of Spain, Gavrilo Dragići, with a precise game and won the medal.
It is his first medal at the world championships under the auspices of the International Sports Federation for the Visually Impaired (IBSA).
In his career, he has a gold and a silver medal from the World Individual Championships for the blind and visually impaired in Cagliari in 2019 and four years later in Rhodes.
He also won gold medals on the first board of the Blind and Visually Impaired Olympics in 2017 and the first board of the first Paralympics in early February in Belgrade.
He is the first champion of independent Montenegro, and four times he was national champion in the regular program.
The second Montenegrin representative in Petrovac, Radovan Damjanović, finished the championship with 3,5 points, and a worse finish in the tournament cost him a better ranking.
In the women's competition, the first place went to Barbara Palacios Figueroa from Venezuela, the second was Hani Viliks from Hungary, and the third was Piedad Esmeralda Sánchez Ruiz from Spain.
36 chess players from 12 countries participated, and the organizers of the championship were the Chess Association and the Paralympic Committee, under the auspices of the Ministry of Sports and Youth.
Nikač's bronze medal is a great prelude to the European Individual Championship, which will be held in Petrovac from November 7 to 20.
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