Hi.
Diamond chess is an Ios a chess ap advertised on audiogames.net last month.
I haven't tried it, since as I said, I'm notoriously bad at playing
chess without a physical board against a computer, but from the sound it
has some useful features.
here's what the developer themselves said about it:
Play chess, watch games, or chat on either FICS, Free Internet Chess
Server or ICC, the Internet Chess Club. If no account just click the
connect as guest button and get started playing.
The Diamond Chess board features engine analysis with one click when
observing a chess game or examining one. Diamond also has a load PGN
option and logs all played games to PGN. Multiple games can be up at
once and users click the next or previous buttons to move between them.
We support both chess and the server's variants such as Crazyhouse,
Losers, Atomic Chess, Giveaway or Suicide Chess.
Diamond has an accessible board to use with Voice Over for the visually
impaired. With voice over on, if a user taps a square it will speak its
contents such as "e4 empty" or "e4 white pawn" and there is a speak move
with Voice Over on.
Join channels and chat in the Diamond console or if the users is
familiar with them issue server commands. For ease of chatting on
channels which are numbers like channel 50, a send prefix button can be
used to set up the prefix "tell 50" if that's the channel selected so
the user need only type their chat line with no command to send it to
the right channel.
ICC is a paid server with a one month trial and free guest access. FICS
is entirely free.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/diamond-c … 31224?ls=1
Hth.
All the best,
Dark.
On 02/04/2020 14:20, Charles Rivard wrote:
Can you give more info about Diamond chess? Thanks in advance.
If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!!
-----Original Message----- From: Luke Hewitt
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2020 3:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Can blind people learn Chess?
As far as chess programs on the computer go, there is Kchess elite from
arcangle software, which I believe is still playable with NVDA or Jaws.
There is then Winboard which i think is Jaws only.
Ian Humphries of spoonbill software has a BG chess game which is Sapi
accessible, and chess is included on the quentin C playroom.
For Ios there are a few chess aps, Shredder chess and the recently
released diamond chess come to mind.
Personally, I always found chess a bit too hard to play without a
physical board in front of me, since even having speech read the board
square by square just isn't enough for me to overview a position without
being able to physically have my hands on it.
Then again, I admit I'm not great at holding spacial information in my
head, one reason I'm no good at games like sudocu or boggle on the
computer either.
For Chess particularly, I'd strongly advise playing against a human,
especially when your learning and can have your fingers on respective
moves, and if people in your family are playing chess, it might be a
nice thing to do together as well, but it's entirely up to you.
All the best,
Dark.
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