Hi Kieth.
Yes, that is true. The touch move rule, ie, you must play a peace you touch
doesn't obviously apply if your blind.
I recently bought a tactile chess set from the rnib but was really irritated
with it, since the black and white squares are coloured more like light
brown and slightly darker brown! This irritated me since it means not only
can I not use any of my vision at all to considder the board as well as my
tactile senses, but also it makes the set useless for playing against
sighted people. This however is not the standard, and just a result of the
rnib being their usual cruddy selves.
As regards notation, well if you try any computer chess game such as BG
chess challenge from spoonbill, or the two Kchess games they will also use
it, so knowing about it might be helpfull generally.
Basically the squares are numbered vertically from 1 to 8, with row 1 being
where the white peaces start, and are lettered across the board from a to e.
So the white rooks are on a1 and h1, the black rooks on a8 and h8, white
king is on e1, the black king on e8 etc.
You can then describe peaces by where they move, for instance the standard
royal opay opening (sorry about spelling), is e2 e4, e7/e5, knight c3 etc.
This is also how people can play postal chess, and describe the moves,
indeed when I used to play in vi tournaments each person had their own board
and would tell the other person the move, since it was easier than having
two blind people trying to use the same board at the same time.
Hth.
Beware the grue!
dark.
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