It is the traditional chess set in which the Knights are horse heads, the
rooks look sort of like castles or towers, the queens have crowns with
scalloped edges, and the King has a cross for a crown. HTH.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Arianna Sepulveda
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2020 1:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Can blind people learn Chess?
Charles, what do you mean by "The usual Staunton design?"
Thanks,
Ari
On Apr 2, 2020, at 9:19 AM, Charles Rivard <[email protected]> wrote:
Usually, the black squares are raised, and the black pieces are tactually
marked with either a dot or a nail sticking out of the top. They are not
sharp, so there is no worry of getting, um, nailed, so to speak. The hard
part about finding a good chess set is that most are not of the
traditional Staunton design, which, to me, makes no sense.
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-----Original Message----- From: Arianna Sepulveda
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2020 3:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Can blind people learn Chess?
Hi, Luke,
I think it’s silly that the color of the raised squares and the color of
the pieces with the dot on them don’t match. Of course, I figured this out
after I started Googling accessible sets.
Thanks,
AriI
On Apr 1, 2020, at 4:18 PM, Luke Hewitt <[email protected]> wrote:
Most often in tactile chess sets it seems to be the white squares that
are lower than the black ones, though I think it depends upon the design
of the set you get.
All the best,
Dark.
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