I think your best bet would be to try the course from the Hadley school for the blind, Chess For Beginners. It is only a 6 lesson correspondence course, and you can get the material in either braille or on audio cassettes, along with a brailled book of diagrams to use during the lessons. Plus, you receive a very good chess set adapted for blind players that you can keep, along with the course materials for future reference if you finish the course. I don't know their URL offhand, but you should be able to find it using a search engine such as
www.google.com if nobody else can give it to you on this list. Anyway, briefly, bishops, rooks, (also known as castles), and Knights, the King, the Queen and pawns capture pieces by moving to the squares on which the enemy piece rests. Pieces that are jumped by a Knight remain on the board. Check is when your king will be captured on your opponent's next move unless you prevent it by blocking the path or moving the King out of harm's way, or by capturing the attacking piece. If you can do none of these things and cannot prevent your King from being taken, it is checkmate and the game is over. HTH. --- In God we trust! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shirley Starblanket" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 11:28 AM Subject: [Audyssey] chess help Well, Charles. Can a castle take out pieces and if so how? Can the bishop and all the others take out pieces? If so, how? When a knight jumps a piece, does it take out the piece it jumps? What's check or checkmate? I need to know everything about chess. If anybody knows about a review on chess let me know. Thanks. HAVE FUN! --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
