Is it possible for a person, who was born blind, to learn chess/board games?

Are there people, who have never seen the light of day, been able to learn the game?

I am sure the documentation on such instances is rare, but there has to be at least one case of such happening, right?

not funny

I went to a tournament once and one of the teams had 3 blind guys playing, they had special boards that they could touch and feel the pieces and squares (beside the actual playing board).

Tiger, I usually have a good sense of humor, but found your comment really offensive.

When I was age 15 I was the official chess teacher for the city of Decatur Illinois. I played against hundreds of kids. The strongest player was a kid who was blind.

I built a special chess board for him with raised edges for each square. He was about age 11. 

No exact truths available from LA.

Neither in Meds nor in Chess.     

Ok but, the OP wasn't asking about blind players. He was asking about people with congenital blindness.

Asking about blindness, international-9zeros&7ones ?      

Not only it's possible, they tend to be better players than ensued blind because they usually don't rely so much on touching the set and think more in terms of interaction between those abstractions named pieces, according to Roberto Enjuto, one of the best blind players in Spain for many years.

Been wondering who is really blind, lately.

Does your mother know, InfiniteFlash ?     

wow... think of the obsicles? How would someone blind from birth evn relate to the way we talk about chess as Black and White?   i mean, how would they evn know what color is?  How would you convey the color Green to someone who has never seen it?  I jst don't understand how they do it... but then i can hardly understand chess 

Color isn't important to playing chess, so that's easy, you wouldn't mention color at all.

By the way, if you want some Q and A with a blind from birth person, this guy on youtube is really great.

No examples?

IF a man had "balls/cojones", he would "see" his own blunders. (Finnish proverb)

They definitely have the concepts of space and shapes, so learning the rules would be as easy as it is for a sighted person surely. I don't have any names though, sorry. Maybe do some searching online for an organization you could contact about that. Like a TD who directs a lot of blind tournaments or something like this.

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I really like that blind guy on youtube. In one video he asks some questions he wonders about sighted people. He says you can walk into a room and immediately know where everything is... but you can drop some change and lose it... how do sighted people lose stuff?!

hehe.

If it's possible for someone like Helen Keller, who, while not born so, was blind and deaf from infancy, to learn how to communicate, read, write and to educate and lecture others, then it is definately possible for someone born blind to learn chess.

I gave one example. Out of hundreds of kids I worked with --the strongest, by far, was a kid who was totally blind. 

Born blind?