Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question

2008-11-03 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Phil, As you look at the board from the white end, the white queen at d1 is on a white square, so the left rook at a1 would be a black square. HTH BFN Jim Once a king always a king but once a knights enough [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA

Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question

2008-11-03 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Ron, To tell you the truth, I forget if my board is white or black raised and which pieces are black or white. One board has the trays on the side for captured pieces the other does not. So that board can be turned 90 degrees. But so any way I also always use the pin head pieces for my

[Audyssey] A spacific chess question

2008-11-02 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hello fellow chess players This might come as an odd question and I'm hoping there is a simple answer to it. I own one of those tactile chess sets. What I'm wondering is there a standard as to which colour squares are the raised ones? That is to say are all the black squares raised or are

Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question

2008-11-02 Thread simon dowling
- Original Message - From: Ron Schamerhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gamers@audyssey.org Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 7:59 PM Subject: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question Hello fellow chess players This might come as an odd question and I'm hoping there is a simple answer

Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question

2008-11-02 Thread Willem
] skype, slifinger - Original Message - From: Ron Schamerhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gamers@audyssey.org Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 7:59 PM Subject: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question Hello fellow chess players This might come as an odd question and I'm hoping

Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question

2008-11-02 Thread Charles Rivard
a thought. Thanks. --- Pretty is as pretty does. - Original Message - From: Ron Schamerhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gamers@audyssey.org Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 11:59 AM Subject: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question Hello fellow chess players This might come

Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question

2008-11-02 Thread simon dowling
- From: Charles Rivard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 3:04 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question While every designer of chess sets for the blind makes the board his or her own way, it is standard for the black

Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question

2008-11-02 Thread Willem
02, 2008 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question I see our american cousins, are not satisfied with messing up the Braille code and everything that goes with that, but in the uk it has always been the white squares have always been raised as has been the markings

Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question

2008-11-02 Thread dark
. - Original Message - From: simon dowling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charles Rivard [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 1:39 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question I see our american cousins, are not satisfied

Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question

2008-11-02 Thread Phil Vlasak
, 2008 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question While every designer of chess sets for the blind makes the board his or her own way, it is standard for the black squares to be raised and the black pieces to be marked. What moves are not being accepted as legal ones in the chess

Re: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question

2008-11-02 Thread shaun everiss
: [Audyssey] A spacific chess question Hello fellow chess players This might come as an odd question and I'm hoping there is a simple answer to it. I own one of those tactile chess sets. What I'm wondering is there a standard as to which colour squares are the raised ones? That is to say are all