The ‘good board’: How Chess is saved by the town of India Alcohol, Gambling | Health

Marottichal, India – Calls, Wallets and Half-Drunk Teacups Clutter Line Tables – except one – in the southern India, where the crowd is made around the Chess Board and two competitors.

One of them 15-year-old Gwirishangar Jayaraj. We are surrounded by viewers who have dropped Chess Board’s opinion, Jayaraj competes.

Playing blind from game opinion means that a child receives the child and renovating the board model, as the travels from both players are posted aloud.

Jayaraj plays the oldest child John John, his bored speech. His shoulders have decreased and followers the mouth betraying that he travels by a few of his fourth game for about 40 minutes.

The GowrivaKar is just 15 and already exists with Chess Prodify. John says or blind, “John said.

‘Chess village of india’

Jayaraj and John were Martical citizens, a town listening to 6,000 citizens in Western Ghats in the beautiful Indian Indian citizens.

Early in 2000s, Marotttichal is known for Chess community in Kerala as a “Chess Village of India” because at least one person in all families are believed to have chess-depred. On the other side of the district, people live on the chessboards, competing in the shade of bus stops, foreign stores and the stadium.

“Over 4,500 people here – or 75 percent – rural citizens are competent players,” John, President of Marchchal Chess Chess Cituments.

Jayaraj is currently calculated within the India players working in India, According to World Chess Chess Federation (Fide), and the prospect of adding to the growing Indian leader as a globalist as a global leader in the game.

In September, India flooded open and 2024 chess Olympiad women. Then, the younger woman – Grandpa – Grandpa, Gukesh Dommaju, 18, benefited World Chess heroic in December. And Gogo and Gogo Koneru were arrested for winning – Beladen in India after winning the Fide Women’s Rand Chess.

Jayaraj, who has a 2012 scale with a Fide, hopes to follow in the footsteps of Indian heroes like Vinathan Anand and Dommeriju, and Grandpa.

His dream reflects the long erotichal journey to break the distinctive reputation from this download.

‘King and Savior’

Forty years ago, the city was causing an alcoholic and a gambling of gambling of gambling of many families.

During the 1970s, three marathinchal families were taking the alcohol-based liquor. But at the beginning of the 80s, a town had become a region of illegal liquid production.

“People didn’t even take the people and sell alcohol at night,” a village home, “the village resident every night,” said Jiaraj Manazhy, who lives in the village. Every night, “Jayaraj Manazhy, who lives in a village every night,” said Jiyaraj Manazhy, “Jayaraj Manazhy, who lives in a village every night.

Trading flowed between towns and Marottical as a liquor resource.

But the farming families began to ignore their livestock and crops. With the decline in the country, the citizens became quick to gamble with card games in the production of alcohol in production, where blocks.

Normal deficit and liquorism is many families crossing poverty.

“The young children were left out of clothes to wear. Some were starved,” said another place, asked the unknown. It seemed that there was no hope for the end of the epidemic.

Until Charaliil Unnikrishnan, deportation of local residents, returning to Marottical in the late 1980’s.

Unnikrishnan was denied his family by joining Maoist’s movement in his youth. He stopped movement from the beginning 30s to stop teahouse in the hill of the village.

But influencing alcohol caught over the village of her house meets the previous apostles. He recalls: “It was a black time then in our society.

Nnikrishnan decided to act.

He has gathered a small group of friends who knew from the teenager in the village and began contacting wives and mothers who were ousted from their families and the leading sons.

Over the months, the Nnikrishnan received tip-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-offs, often occurred late at night. Unnikrishnan and his friends attacked houses where houses were produced in the use of alcohol and wasted, destroying hidden goods and equipment used for production.

Sometimes, they met resistance, but the Nninkrishnan released support from other local people who wished to change. Manufacturers, in reducing demand and a few ways to restart their businesses, deviate.

After the attack, the Ninikrishnan will invite members of the community to play chess.

“The game brought us closer to it.

He says: “It really started to put our lives into this beautiful board.

In his shop, Unnikrishnan served the citizens and not some tea, but also his view of the innocent of alcohol. And that, He told them, I could do chess, old plan of the plan believed to come from India.

Immediately, people focus on the Chess board they became common to the village.

At that time, the charges and gambling began to decline in the village. Families, as well as a bottle, instead combined together around the chess board, compete with your highest checks.

“Before we know chess, many [of us] Francis Kachachilly, Francis Kachachilly, followed by alcohol, as standing by the next side of Unnikrishnan Etheahouse towards Jayaraj and John play.

“We didn’t focus too much. Chess gave something new.”

Nnikrishnan taught chess for about 1,000 residents and also competed with the Grandmasters around the world. A few younger players from Marottical are competing around the world and within India regularly.

In 2016, Marotttichal was given ASIA’s Asian history of the largest inkirts of Amateur (1,001) to play Chess and Asia.

Unnikrishnan, now 67 years old, is loved by ‘the people of the Rotticchals as our Lord and Savior’, said John John.

‘Chess returned me in life’

Unlike gambling, probably nothing of chesses.

The game has decided – a player who makes the best collection collection wins; And the rules and format have set up a chance to demonstrate negative conditions such as excuse or accomposing to the good of the loss.

Unnikrishnan is reluctant to say that the number of chess chess in good decisions and avoiding the wicked only because of alcohol allocation and gambling in Marotchal.

But he believes he was “exerted great influence”.

Worldwide, Chess contributes to the treatment of mental and mental and understanding problems. In Spain, the game was associated with renewal programs to treat drugs, alcohol and addiction. Recently, in the United Kingdom, psychiatrist Rosie Meeks pointed out that the clubs in jail helped “reduced violence and conflict with other inmates.

Fewer have heard the value of the chess more than Jahem Vallur.

The 59-year-old is the representative of Marotchichal Association and one of the most enthusiastic players.

Just before the day of the cool day in January in Uninikrishnan Teahouse, he opened his game with a bright smile, and in the middle game, he laughs very much with his opponent. The shoes are exchanged by the comedy jokes on the black and whiteboard between them.

Twenty-five years ago, Vallur was fighting for his health after a speedy crash while riding his motorcycle. The first respondents make up his unlimited body from the street and rushed him to the hospital where he would live there for two months filled with life’s support equipment.

“Doctors told my family and friends that my brain was severely damaged by danger,” said Vallur tells Al Jazeera.

He was completely disabled at the beginning, but he started to start moving a little in his low body. Unnikrishnan and John were among his closest friends and would spend hours beside his hospital bed.

After Vallur began to show signs of his speech, his friends would bring Chess board with them at their visit. Soon, his duties began to improve. Today, it is his right arm that is disabled from shoulder down.

Valllur believes typical chess games during recovery helped. “The chess restored me to life,” she says.

In 2023, Marottikal’s redemption attracted the attention of filmmaker and the writer Kaber Kaburana, who supervised a 35-minute film, the Marotttichal Pawn, crashes the village struggle and easy.

Khurana, his film set for deliverance this year, saying that he “saw an enthusiasm, lust and people when he visited the village”.

Back in Unnikrishnan’s team, lunch games started to wrap. Valllur gets into the last match plate against Jayaraj, winning again.

“I taught her mother how to play,” says Vallur, “Vallur said. “You will be proud in India.”