I recommend taking the correspondence courses from the Hadley School for the
Blind. I believe the URL is
www.hadley.edu
With the course, "Chess For Beginners", you get all of the study materials
in either braille, audio cassette, or on a cartridge for use in the Library
of Congress digital Talking Book player. Also, you get a chess set adapted
for blind players. After completing this 6 lesson course with a patient and
knowledgeable instructor at your own learning pace, the study materials and
chess set are yours to keep. And it is absolutely free of charge. Then you
can move on to the course on "Tactics and Strategies". These 2 courses are
actually a book written by a Grandmaster, adapted for study by blind people
by Hadley. HTH.,
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----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chesss for the blind
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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