Re: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine
Well I can't help with the Frotz or tads part, though I will note that kerkerkruip and some other glulks titles are very rpg like if they will run with ios. However for something with lots of quests and good mechanics on Ios, Your game is king of dragon pass. Also, Adventure to Fate battle arena is having a major access update that's just being cleared by apple. The game doesn't have much by way of story, just lots of fights, but plenty of mechanics to play with, different classes and races to play who all have slightly different stratogy, item crafting and lots of other fun. I'll post more when the update arrives (i might even try a casting of the pod), but that should definitely be something good for Ios, even if it is lacking in story. Al the best, Dark. There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even the archmaesters of the citadel can dream. - Original Message - From: Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine Well, I'm kinda stuck in games as it were. What I want is perhaps a text-based game, that works with frotz or tads or whatever works on iOS, that has a lot of adventuring and doing quests, a storyline that is pretty endepth, and good battle mechanics. Something, perhaps, like chrono trigger or final fantasy. Indeed, if some one has ported either of those, well one or more of the final fantasy series and / or chrono trigger, to interactive fiction that'd be perfection. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 19, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com wrote: hey shawn I'm the same way. But lately I find playing spoonbill games and rs-games and quenton c's games and some of the GMA-cards-games is a fun and relaxing passtime for me. especially learning chess. lately to practice offensive and defensive strategies I play against another human but I play chess both white and black by myself just to try out different moves. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/17/2015 1:35 AM, shaun everiss wrote: wow been out of touch lately playing ironic renpy gamebooks. Anyway I agree with everything you have said up to this point. I tried to program but I never got that far never had the patience to stick with actual code nore the wish to write programs. While I can write stories in my head writing it down is impossible I never can get everything or if I do it its way to short or I forget and have a mindlock. Testing and sounds are my strong point though sound recorder and shoving sfx together is as far as I have needed to go. I have done some voice scripts but to be honest my hardware is budget and I have neither the cash or space more importantly space to store or use the more expensive stuff pluss my environment is just not cut out for that sort of thing. I have also the lazyness issue where I tend to comit to stuff then suddenly get distracted or burn out for no reason what so ever. Then I stress that if I have something I need to do that I won't get it in on time etc. Saying that the stuff I do do I try to do the best I can. However I have never been able to work for more than 30 minutes at a time even less and I have to be in a mood to even do things. This mood can change depending on what the computer is doing or if something is on my plate to do or if I am completely relaxed. Sometimes I get to a point where I feel I can string things together and make something sometimes I get there sometimes I don't. Eventually though shortly before I am even done reality comes back to hit me again and I wander what I started and kill it till the next time. I find it hard to stick to some tasks long term or if something is to hard or needs concentration over a sertain point I find it easier to put it off for ever so yeah to be a developer is hard work and as far as I care you devs are cool an do good things. I don't know if I will get to that stage I may do some day who knows. At 06:33 p.m. 15/06/2015, you wrote: Hi Mohsin , I can definitely understand where you are coming from because I was where you are now a few years ago. I was a sighted gamer up until my mid teens when I went blind, and when I went to college I had some idea I'd get a degree in computer science and be a computer programmer. My initial idea or dream was to write accessible computer games equivalent to those I had ben exposed to before I lost my sight. Stuff like Quake, Doom, Tomb Raider, Jedi Knight, Soldier of Fortune, etc. I was convinced all I needed to do was learn to program and from their it would be easy. As it turned out it wasn't as simple or as straight forward as I thought. Interesting enough I personally did not find learning programming to be that hard. I know we are all different, some learn things easier than others
Re: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine
Well, I'm kinda stuck in games as it were. What I want is perhaps a text-based game, that works with frotz or tads or whatever works on iOS, that has a lot of adventuring and doing quests, a storyline that is pretty endepth, and good battle mechanics. Something, perhaps, like chrono trigger or final fantasy. Indeed, if some one has ported either of those, well one or more of the final fantasy series and / or chrono trigger, to interactive fiction that'd be perfection. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 19, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com wrote: hey shawn I'm the same way. But lately I find playing spoonbill games and rs-games and quenton c's games and some of the GMA-cards-games is a fun and relaxing passtime for me. especially learning chess. lately to practice offensive and defensive strategies I play against another human but I play chess both white and black by myself just to try out different moves. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/17/2015 1:35 AM, shaun everiss wrote: wow been out of touch lately playing ironic renpy gamebooks. Anyway I agree with everything you have said up to this point. I tried to program but I never got that far never had the patience to stick with actual code nore the wish to write programs. While I can write stories in my head writing it down is impossible I never can get everything or if I do it its way to short or I forget and have a mindlock. Testing and sounds are my strong point though sound recorder and shoving sfx together is as far as I have needed to go. I have done some voice scripts but to be honest my hardware is budget and I have neither the cash or space more importantly space to store or use the more expensive stuff pluss my environment is just not cut out for that sort of thing. I have also the lazyness issue where I tend to comit to stuff then suddenly get distracted or burn out for no reason what so ever. Then I stress that if I have something I need to do that I won't get it in on time etc. Saying that the stuff I do do I try to do the best I can. However I have never been able to work for more than 30 minutes at a time even less and I have to be in a mood to even do things. This mood can change depending on what the computer is doing or if something is on my plate to do or if I am completely relaxed. Sometimes I get to a point where I feel I can string things together and make something sometimes I get there sometimes I don't. Eventually though shortly before I am even done reality comes back to hit me again and I wander what I started and kill it till the next time. I find it hard to stick to some tasks long term or if something is to hard or needs concentration over a sertain point I find it easier to put it off for ever so yeah to be a developer is hard work and as far as I care you devs are cool an do good things. I don't know if I will get to that stage I may do some day who knows. At 06:33 p.m. 15/06/2015, you wrote: Hi Mohsin , I can definitely understand where you are coming from because I was where you are now a few years ago. I was a sighted gamer up until my mid teens when I went blind, and when I went to college I had some idea I'd get a degree in computer science and be a computer programmer. My initial idea or dream was to write accessible computer games equivalent to those I had ben exposed to before I lost my sight. Stuff like Quake, Doom, Tomb Raider, Jedi Knight, Soldier of Fortune, etc. I was convinced all I needed to do was learn to program and from their it would be easy. As it turned out it wasn't as simple or as straight forward as I thought. Interesting enough I personally did not find learning programming to be that hard. I know we are all different, some learn things easier than others, but by far learning to develop games was actually easier than other aspects of the process. There are a lot of problems I had not even imagined or considered when I decided to specialize in game programming. Things that were in my opinion much more difficult than the programming required to write a game or accessible product. One issue I see as a problem for audio game developers is advertising. Sure there are a few hundred blind customers on Audyssey and the Audio Games Forum, but the reality is they are just a small minority of the thousands perhaps millions of blind people world wide who are not connected with any audio gaming venue. Let's face it advertising via TV and radio can get extremely expensive. So expensive that it would take incredible financing to market a product that way. News Papers are a cheaper method of advertising games and other products, but there we have the problem of its not an accessible means of communication from an audio game developer to his/her potential blind customers. We can assume the majority of blind people do not read the morning paper and if they do an aid or family member reads
Re: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine
well if you have quenton c's gameroom we can then play chess against each other. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/19/2015 1:44 PM, Charles Rivard wrote: If or when we play a game of chess against each other, I wish you all the worst! (rotten grin). --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine I do enjoy a traditional style game occasionally, though with the issues I mentioned with chess and space I personally prefer something like Bg nomination whist or pontes backgammon myself. Rs games I do occasionally though generally if I'm going to play with others across the net I prefer to do so with a more social humour based game like cards against humanity. All the best, Dark. There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even the archmaesters of the citadel can dream. - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 3:37 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine hey shawn I'm the same way. But lately I find playing spoonbill games and rs-games and quenton c's games and some of the GMA-cards-games is a fun and relaxing passtime for me. especially learning chess. lately to practice offensive and defensive strategies I play against another human but I play chess both white and black by myself just to try out different moves. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/17/2015 1:35 AM, shaun everiss wrote: wow been out of touch lately playing ironic renpy gamebooks. Anyway I agree with everything you have said up to this point. I tried to program but I never got that far never had the patience to stick with actual code nore the wish to write programs. While I can write stories in my head writing it down is impossible I never can get everything or if I do it its way to short or I forget and have a mindlock. Testing and sounds are my strong point though sound recorder and shoving sfx together is as far as I have needed to go. I have done some voice scripts but to be honest my hardware is budget and I have neither the cash or space more importantly space to store or use the more expensive stuff pluss my environment is just not cut out for that sort of thing. I have also the lazyness issue where I tend to comit to stuff then suddenly get distracted or burn out for no reason what so ever. Then I stress that if I have something I need to do that I won't get it in on time etc. Saying that the stuff I do do I try to do the best I can. However I have never been able to work for more than 30 minutes at a time even less and I have to be in a mood to even do things. This mood can change depending on what the computer is doing or if something is on my plate to do or if I am completely relaxed. Sometimes I get to a point where I feel I can string things together and make something sometimes I get there sometimes I don't. Eventually though shortly before I am even done reality comes back to hit me again and I wander what I started and kill it till the next time. I find it hard to stick to some tasks long term or if something is to hard or needs concentration over a sertain point I find it easier to put it off for ever so yeah to be a developer is hard work and as far as I care you devs are cool an do good things. I don't know if I will get to that stage I may do some day who knows. At 06:33 p.m. 15/06/2015, you wrote: Hi Mohsin , I can definitely understand where you are coming from because I was where you are now a few years ago. I was a sighted gamer up until my mid teens when I went blind, and when I went to college I had some idea I'd get a degree in computer science and be a computer programmer. My initial idea or dream was to write accessible computer games equivalent to those I had ben exposed to before I lost my sight. Stuff like Quake, Doom, Tomb Raider, Jedi Knight, Soldier of Fortune, etc. I was convinced all I needed to do was learn to program and from their it would be easy. As it turned out it wasn't as simple or as straight forward as I thought. Interesting enough I personally did not find learning programming to be that hard. I know we are all different, some learn things easier than others, but by far learning to develop games was actually easier than other aspects of the process. There are a lot of problems I had not even imagined or considered when I decided to specialize in game programming. Things that were in my opinion much more difficult than the programming required to write a game or accessible product. One issue I see as a problem for audio game developers
Re: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine
I never said all games were that bad. The quentin games have a good engine I havn't hit it much online. the rs stuff is good to but unlike the quentin engine say with 1000 miles rules for if you are actually stupped and trapped are not inforced so you can still trap even if you are cornered and it takes out the frustration of playing especially when you have a human opponent. I have not played the all in play engine though of late. I still play the old kitchensinc games when I have a few minutes. At 02:37 a.m. 20/06/2015, you wrote: hey shawn I'm the same way. But lately I find playing spoonbill games and rs-games and quenton c's games and some of the GMA-cards-games is a fun and relaxing passtime for me. especially learning chess. lately to practice offensive and defensive strategies I play against another human but I play chess both white and black by myself just to try out different moves. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/17/2015 1:35 AM, shaun everiss wrote: wow been out of touch lately playing ironic renpy gamebooks. Anyway I agree with everything you have said up to this point. I tried to program but I never got that far never had the patience to stick with actual code nore the wish to write programs. While I can write stories in my head writing it down is impossible I never can get everything or if I do it its way to short or I forget and have a mindlock. Testing and sounds are my strong point though sound recorder and shoving sfx together is as far as I have needed to go. I have done some voice scripts but to be honest my hardware is budget and I have neither the cash or space more importantly space to store or use the more expensive stuff pluss my environment is just not cut out for that sort of thing. I have also the lazyness issue where I tend to comit to stuff then suddenly get distracted or burn out for no reason what so ever. Then I stress that if I have something I need to do that I won't get it in on time etc. Saying that the stuff I do do I try to do the best I can. However I have never been able to work for more than 30 minutes at a time even less and I have to be in a mood to even do things. This mood can change depending on what the computer is doing or if something is on my plate to do or if I am completely relaxed. Sometimes I get to a point where I feel I can string things together and make something sometimes I get there sometimes I don't. Eventually though shortly before I am even done reality comes back to hit me again and I wander what I started and kill it till the next time. I find it hard to stick to some tasks long term or if something is to hard or needs concentration over a sertain point I find it easier to put it off for ever so yeah to be a developer is hard work and as far as I care you devs are cool an do good things. I don't know if I will get to that stage I may do some day who knows. At 06:33 p.m. 15/06/2015, you wrote: Hi Mohsin , I can definitely understand where you are coming from because I was where you are now a few years ago. I was a sighted gamer up until my mid teens when I went blind, and when I went to college I had some idea I'd get a degree in computer science and be a computer programmer. My initial idea or dream was to write accessible computer games equivalent to those I had ben exposed to before I lost my sight. Stuff like Quake, Doom, Tomb Raider, Jedi Knight, Soldier of Fortune, etc. I was convinced all I needed to do was learn to program and from their it would be easy. As it turned out it wasn't as simple or as straight forward as I thought. Interesting enough I personally did not find learning programming to be that hard. I know we are all different, some learn things easier than others, but by far learning to develop games was actually easier than other aspects of the process. There are a lot of problems I had not even imagined or considered when I decided to specialize in game programming. Things that were in my opinion much more difficult than the programming required to write a game or accessible product. One issue I see as a problem for audio game developers is advertising. Sure there are a few hundred blind customers on Audyssey and the Audio Games Forum, but the reality is they are just a small minority of the thousands perhaps millions of blind people world wide who are not connected with any audio gaming venue. Let's face it advertising via TV and radio can get extremely expensive. So expensive that it would take incredible financing to market a product that way. News Papers are a cheaper method of advertising games and other products, but there we have the problem of its not an accessible means of communication from an audio game developer to his/her potential blind customers. We can assume the majority of blind people do not read the morning paper and if they do an aid or family member reads it to them meaning that the best we can hope for that a friend or family member brings it to
Re: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine
If or when we play a game of chess against each other, I wish you all the worst! (rotten grin). --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine I do enjoy a traditional style game occasionally, though with the issues I mentioned with chess and space I personally prefer something like Bg nomination whist or pontes backgammon myself. Rs games I do occasionally though generally if I'm going to play with others across the net I prefer to do so with a more social humour based game like cards against humanity. All the best, Dark. There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even the archmaesters of the citadel can dream. - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 3:37 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine hey shawn I'm the same way. But lately I find playing spoonbill games and rs-games and quenton c's games and some of the GMA-cards-games is a fun and relaxing passtime for me. especially learning chess. lately to practice offensive and defensive strategies I play against another human but I play chess both white and black by myself just to try out different moves. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/17/2015 1:35 AM, shaun everiss wrote: wow been out of touch lately playing ironic renpy gamebooks. Anyway I agree with everything you have said up to this point. I tried to program but I never got that far never had the patience to stick with actual code nore the wish to write programs. While I can write stories in my head writing it down is impossible I never can get everything or if I do it its way to short or I forget and have a mindlock. Testing and sounds are my strong point though sound recorder and shoving sfx together is as far as I have needed to go. I have done some voice scripts but to be honest my hardware is budget and I have neither the cash or space more importantly space to store or use the more expensive stuff pluss my environment is just not cut out for that sort of thing. I have also the lazyness issue where I tend to comit to stuff then suddenly get distracted or burn out for no reason what so ever. Then I stress that if I have something I need to do that I won't get it in on time etc. Saying that the stuff I do do I try to do the best I can. However I have never been able to work for more than 30 minutes at a time even less and I have to be in a mood to even do things. This mood can change depending on what the computer is doing or if something is on my plate to do or if I am completely relaxed. Sometimes I get to a point where I feel I can string things together and make something sometimes I get there sometimes I don't. Eventually though shortly before I am even done reality comes back to hit me again and I wander what I started and kill it till the next time. I find it hard to stick to some tasks long term or if something is to hard or needs concentration over a sertain point I find it easier to put it off for ever so yeah to be a developer is hard work and as far as I care you devs are cool an do good things. I don't know if I will get to that stage I may do some day who knows. At 06:33 p.m. 15/06/2015, you wrote: Hi Mohsin , I can definitely understand where you are coming from because I was where you are now a few years ago. I was a sighted gamer up until my mid teens when I went blind, and when I went to college I had some idea I'd get a degree in computer science and be a computer programmer. My initial idea or dream was to write accessible computer games equivalent to those I had ben exposed to before I lost my sight. Stuff like Quake, Doom, Tomb Raider, Jedi Knight, Soldier of Fortune, etc. I was convinced all I needed to do was learn to program and from their it would be easy. As it turned out it wasn't as simple or as straight forward as I thought. Interesting enough I personally did not find learning programming to be that hard. I know we are all different, some learn things easier than others, but by far learning to develop games was actually easier than other aspects of the process. There are a lot of problems I had not even imagined or considered when I decided to specialize in game programming. Things that were in my opinion much more difficult than the programming required to write a game or accessible product. One issue I see as a problem for audio game developers is advertising. Sure there are a few hundred blind customers on Audyssey and the Audio Games Forum, but the reality is they are just a small minority of the thousands
[Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine
hey shawn I'm the same way. But lately I find playing spoonbill games and rs-games and quenton c's games and some of the GMA-cards-games is a fun and relaxing passtime for me. especially learning chess. lately to practice offensive and defensive strategies I play against another human but I play chess both white and black by myself just to try out different moves. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/17/2015 1:35 AM, shaun everiss wrote: wow been out of touch lately playing ironic renpy gamebooks. Anyway I agree with everything you have said up to this point. I tried to program but I never got that far never had the patience to stick with actual code nore the wish to write programs. While I can write stories in my head writing it down is impossible I never can get everything or if I do it its way to short or I forget and have a mindlock. Testing and sounds are my strong point though sound recorder and shoving sfx together is as far as I have needed to go. I have done some voice scripts but to be honest my hardware is budget and I have neither the cash or space more importantly space to store or use the more expensive stuff pluss my environment is just not cut out for that sort of thing. I have also the lazyness issue where I tend to comit to stuff then suddenly get distracted or burn out for no reason what so ever. Then I stress that if I have something I need to do that I won't get it in on time etc. Saying that the stuff I do do I try to do the best I can. However I have never been able to work for more than 30 minutes at a time even less and I have to be in a mood to even do things. This mood can change depending on what the computer is doing or if something is on my plate to do or if I am completely relaxed. Sometimes I get to a point where I feel I can string things together and make something sometimes I get there sometimes I don't. Eventually though shortly before I am even done reality comes back to hit me again and I wander what I started and kill it till the next time. I find it hard to stick to some tasks long term or if something is to hard or needs concentration over a sertain point I find it easier to put it off for ever so yeah to be a developer is hard work and as far as I care you devs are cool an do good things. I don't know if I will get to that stage I may do some day who knows. At 06:33 p.m. 15/06/2015, you wrote: Hi Mohsin , I can definitely understand where you are coming from because I was where you are now a few years ago. I was a sighted gamer up until my mid teens when I went blind, and when I went to college I had some idea I'd get a degree in computer science and be a computer programmer. My initial idea or dream was to write accessible computer games equivalent to those I had ben exposed to before I lost my sight. Stuff like Quake, Doom, Tomb Raider, Jedi Knight, Soldier of Fortune, etc. I was convinced all I needed to do was learn to program and from their it would be easy. As it turned out it wasn't as simple or as straight forward as I thought. Interesting enough I personally did not find learning programming to be that hard. I know we are all different, some learn things easier than others, but by far learning to develop games was actually easier than other aspects of the process. There are a lot of problems I had not even imagined or considered when I decided to specialize in game programming. Things that were in my opinion much more difficult than the programming required to write a game or accessible product. One issue I see as a problem for audio game developers is advertising. Sure there are a few hundred blind customers on Audyssey and the Audio Games Forum, but the reality is they are just a small minority of the thousands perhaps millions of blind people world wide who are not connected with any audio gaming venue. Let's face it advertising via TV and radio can get extremely expensive. So expensive that it would take incredible financing to market a product that way. News Papers are a cheaper method of advertising games and other products, but there we have the problem of its not an accessible means of communication from an audio game developer to his/her potential blind customers. We can assume the majority of blind people do not read the morning paper and if they do an aid or family member reads it to them meaning that the best we can hope for that a friend or family member brings it to the blind persons attention. Regardless of the method and means a developer looks at it is going to cost a lot of money to get the word out about their product, and there does not seem to be a good method to market a product to the blind community at large at this time. Another difficulty is just demographics and age. It is a well known fact that the majority of people with vision problems today are senior citizens who are 60 or older. In other words people who are grandparents who likely have different interests than their grandkids in
Re: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine
I do enjoy a traditional style game occasionally, though with the issues I mentioned with chess and space I personally prefer something like Bg nomination whist or pontes backgammon myself. Rs games I do occasionally though generally if I'm going to play with others across the net I prefer to do so with a more social humour based game like cards against humanity. All the best, Dark. There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even the archmaesters of the citadel can dream. - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 3:37 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess was Re: info AudioGames Game Engine hey shawn I'm the same way. But lately I find playing spoonbill games and rs-games and quenton c's games and some of the GMA-cards-games is a fun and relaxing passtime for me. especially learning chess. lately to practice offensive and defensive strategies I play against another human but I play chess both white and black by myself just to try out different moves. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/17/2015 1:35 AM, shaun everiss wrote: wow been out of touch lately playing ironic renpy gamebooks. Anyway I agree with everything you have said up to this point. I tried to program but I never got that far never had the patience to stick with actual code nore the wish to write programs. While I can write stories in my head writing it down is impossible I never can get everything or if I do it its way to short or I forget and have a mindlock. Testing and sounds are my strong point though sound recorder and shoving sfx together is as far as I have needed to go. I have done some voice scripts but to be honest my hardware is budget and I have neither the cash or space more importantly space to store or use the more expensive stuff pluss my environment is just not cut out for that sort of thing. I have also the lazyness issue where I tend to comit to stuff then suddenly get distracted or burn out for no reason what so ever. Then I stress that if I have something I need to do that I won't get it in on time etc. Saying that the stuff I do do I try to do the best I can. However I have never been able to work for more than 30 minutes at a time even less and I have to be in a mood to even do things. This mood can change depending on what the computer is doing or if something is on my plate to do or if I am completely relaxed. Sometimes I get to a point where I feel I can string things together and make something sometimes I get there sometimes I don't. Eventually though shortly before I am even done reality comes back to hit me again and I wander what I started and kill it till the next time. I find it hard to stick to some tasks long term or if something is to hard or needs concentration over a sertain point I find it easier to put it off for ever so yeah to be a developer is hard work and as far as I care you devs are cool an do good things. I don't know if I will get to that stage I may do some day who knows. At 06:33 p.m. 15/06/2015, you wrote: Hi Mohsin , I can definitely understand where you are coming from because I was where you are now a few years ago. I was a sighted gamer up until my mid teens when I went blind, and when I went to college I had some idea I'd get a degree in computer science and be a computer programmer. My initial idea or dream was to write accessible computer games equivalent to those I had ben exposed to before I lost my sight. Stuff like Quake, Doom, Tomb Raider, Jedi Knight, Soldier of Fortune, etc. I was convinced all I needed to do was learn to program and from their it would be easy. As it turned out it wasn't as simple or as straight forward as I thought. Interesting enough I personally did not find learning programming to be that hard. I know we are all different, some learn things easier than others, but by far learning to develop games was actually easier than other aspects of the process. There are a lot of problems I had not even imagined or considered when I decided to specialize in game programming. Things that were in my opinion much more difficult than the programming required to write a game or accessible product. One issue I see as a problem for audio game developers is advertising. Sure there are a few hundred blind customers on Audyssey and the Audio Games Forum, but the reality is they are just a small minority of the thousands perhaps millions of blind people world wide who are not connected with any audio gaming venue. Let's face it advertising via TV and radio can get extremely expensive. So expensive that it would take incredible financing to market a product that way. News Papers are a cheaper method of advertising games and other products, but there we have the problem of its not an accessible means of communication from an audio game
Re: [Audyssey] Chess or Mahjong
Thanks Dark, I'll pursue this further. I am interested enough, both as a blind gamer myself, and as a designer in the challenges, that I don't want to totally give this up, but right now, I have several other irons in the fire, and this did not turn out quite as simple a situation as I was hoping. (Is it ever?) Take care, Jeremy On 6/12/15, gamers-requ...@audyssey.org gamers-requ...@audyssey.org wrote: Send Gamers mailing list submissions to gamers@audyssey.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to gamers-requ...@audyssey.org You can reach the person managing the list at gamers-ow...@audyssey.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Gamers digest... Today's Topics: 1. chess or mahjong (Jeremy Brown) 2. Re: chess or mahjong (dark) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 12:23:56 -0500 From: Jeremy Brown tyr...@gmail.com To: gamers gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong Message-ID: CAAhS5Zk4Gh=_fisxlyht2tswvfs8vgdwayva69b5xmqpm2x...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I actually went and researched Mahjong in response to this topic. A lot of the complexity of coding such a beast would be your definition of what Mahjong is. There's apparently a number of different variations ranging from relatively simple to immensely complex. Our card game Rummy is based on it. I studied a couple of simpler multi-player versions, and had a simpler solitaire set up explained to me by my wife. The game's setup as a solitaire game presents some unique challenges in an audio environment, having multiple levels, some of which you can see only partially that all must be displayed more or less simultaneously. In the traditional games, the challenge is more one of mastering the rule sets well enough to create a game that accurately reproduces the game play. Warning: I did not investigate American Mahjong extensively because it appears much simpler and more derivative from the original versions. That said, it might be a way to progress. If I were to attempt it, with the help of my pet coder (hi Aaron! that's you), I'd lean toward doing a multi-player version based on the Hong Kong old style rules I studied. They seemed simple enough to master relatively easily, complex enough to be interesting, and different enough from card games to present a unique challenge. That said, I don't see it happening any time soon. I need to get a Mahjong set and experiment with it before I could design an AI that played even reasonably well. Take care, Jeremy -- In the fight between you and the world--back the world! Frank Zapa -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:07:34 +0100 From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong Message-ID: 0E2355132A034E3CBB73E70ED0B1C58A@userec7a90e6b3 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original I believe the game toodle tiles from american printing house for the blind was based on the solo version of mahjong, or one of them at any rate, but to be honest between the game's serious repackaging as a gamefirmly and distinctly aimed at children (even the documentation is written to sell to teachers), and the fact I've never got the demo of the bloody thing to work, I can't say for certain either way. Still, you can find links on audiogames.net. Once upon a time there was a podcast about the game which I heard (which is where I know a little from), but god knows where it has gone, I believe it was on the noew defunked blindcooltech. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Jeremy Brown tyr...@gmail.com To: gamers gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:23 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong I actually went and researched Mahjong in response to this topic. A lot of the complexity of coding such a beast would be your definition of what Mahjong is. There's apparently a number of different variations ranging from relatively simple to immensely complex. Our card game Rummy is based on it. I studied a couple of simpler multi-player versions, and had a simpler solitaire set up explained to me by my wife. The game's setup as a solitaire game presents some unique challenges in an audio environment, having multiple levels, some of which you can see only partially that all must be displayed more or less simultaneously. In the traditional games, the challenge is more one of mastering the rule sets well enough to create a game that accurately reproduces the game play. Warning: I did not investigate American
Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong?
The spoonbill games do tend to be very well designed and put together, even their simpler ones like mastermind with lots of random features etc. I haven't particularly got into their chess challenge game sinse I don't find I can play chess looking at a board square by square but would want the hole board in front of me, but I am rather fond of their whist and cribbage games. Their hearts is good too though I can usually wipe the floor with the computer on that one :D. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 2:41 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? thanks, sounds good I just ordered it along with 3 or 4 of their other games. Josh follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/10/2015 5:50 PM, Jacob Kruger wrote: What about the spoonbill chess game for PC? http://www.spoonbillsoftware.com.au/bgchess.htm Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet... - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? its too bad the windows chess can't have an NVDA addon to make it more accessible. it is mostly accessible i think but I'm not sure what keyboard commands to use to play it. the windows7 chess titans game that is. I can arrow over the board no problem. it reads the board and pieces and if spaces are empty. i don't think it would take much to make it completely accessible plus its free. Josh follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/10/2015 4:46 AM, dark wrote: There are the two Kchess games, elite and advanced from arc angle software that have play against the computer, I've also heard shreader for Ios is accessible though I'm not certain on that one. As for Mahjong unfortunately not that I know, indeed I slightly wish there were sinse I have never played Mahjong but would be interested in learning. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 11:41 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? hi are there any accessible chess or mahjong games where you can play against the computer? Josh -- follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You
[Audyssey] chess or mahjong
I actually went and researched Mahjong in response to this topic. A lot of the complexity of coding such a beast would be your definition of what Mahjong is. There's apparently a number of different variations ranging from relatively simple to immensely complex. Our card game Rummy is based on it. I studied a couple of simpler multi-player versions, and had a simpler solitaire set up explained to me by my wife. The game's setup as a solitaire game presents some unique challenges in an audio environment, having multiple levels, some of which you can see only partially that all must be displayed more or less simultaneously. In the traditional games, the challenge is more one of mastering the rule sets well enough to create a game that accurately reproduces the game play. Warning: I did not investigate American Mahjong extensively because it appears much simpler and more derivative from the original versions. That said, it might be a way to progress. If I were to attempt it, with the help of my pet coder (hi Aaron! that's you), I'd lean toward doing a multi-player version based on the Hong Kong old style rules I studied. They seemed simple enough to master relatively easily, complex enough to be interesting, and different enough from card games to present a unique challenge. That said, I don't see it happening any time soon. I need to get a Mahjong set and experiment with it before I could design an AI that played even reasonably well. Take care, Jeremy -- In the fight between you and the world--back the world! Frank Zapa --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong
I believe the game toodle tiles from american printing house for the blind was based on the solo version of mahjong, or one of them at any rate, but to be honest between the game's serious repackaging as a gamefirmly and distinctly aimed at children (even the documentation is written to sell to teachers), and the fact I've never got the demo of the bloody thing to work, I can't say for certain either way. Still, you can find links on audiogames.net. Once upon a time there was a podcast about the game which I heard (which is where I know a little from), but god knows where it has gone, I believe it was on the noew defunked blindcooltech. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Jeremy Brown tyr...@gmail.com To: gamers gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:23 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong I actually went and researched Mahjong in response to this topic. A lot of the complexity of coding such a beast would be your definition of what Mahjong is. There's apparently a number of different variations ranging from relatively simple to immensely complex. Our card game Rummy is based on it. I studied a couple of simpler multi-player versions, and had a simpler solitaire set up explained to me by my wife. The game's setup as a solitaire game presents some unique challenges in an audio environment, having multiple levels, some of which you can see only partially that all must be displayed more or less simultaneously. In the traditional games, the challenge is more one of mastering the rule sets well enough to create a game that accurately reproduces the game play. Warning: I did not investigate American Mahjong extensively because it appears much simpler and more derivative from the original versions. That said, it might be a way to progress. If I were to attempt it, with the help of my pet coder (hi Aaron! that's you), I'd lean toward doing a multi-player version based on the Hong Kong old style rules I studied. They seemed simple enough to master relatively easily, complex enough to be interesting, and different enough from card games to present a unique challenge. That said, I don't see it happening any time soon. I need to get a Mahjong set and experiment with it before I could design an AI that played even reasonably well. Take care, Jeremy -- In the fight between you and the world--back the world! Frank Zapa --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong?
There are the two Kchess games, elite and advanced from arc angle software that have play against the computer, I've also heard shreader for Ios is accessible though I'm not certain on that one. As for Mahjong unfortunately not that I know, indeed I slightly wish there were sinse I have never played Mahjong but would be interested in learning. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 11:41 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? hi are there any accessible chess or mahjong games where you can play against the computer? Josh -- follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong?
re you looking for an app for an iDevice? or are you looking for a program for your PC? --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 5:41 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? hi are there any accessible chess or mahjong games where you can play against the computer? Josh -- follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5961 / Virus Database: 4355/9985 - Release Date: 06/09/15 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong?
its too bad the windows chess can't have an NVDA addon to make it more accessible. it is mostly accessible i think but I'm not sure what keyboard commands to use to play it. the windows7 chess titans game that is. I can arrow over the board no problem. it reads the board and pieces and if spaces are empty. i don't think it would take much to make it completely accessible plus its free. Josh follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/10/2015 4:46 AM, dark wrote: There are the two Kchess games, elite and advanced from arc angle software that have play against the computer, I've also heard shreader for Ios is accessible though I'm not certain on that one. As for Mahjong unfortunately not that I know, indeed I slightly wish there were sinse I have never played Mahjong but would be interested in learning. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 11:41 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? hi are there any accessible chess or mahjong games where you can play against the computer? Josh -- follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong?
a program for my pc. chess titans that comes with winidows7 seems to be pretty accessible but I'm not sure how to play it with the keyboard. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/10/2015 12:26 PM, Charles Rivard wrote: re you looking for an app for an iDevice? or are you looking for a program for your PC? --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 5:41 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? hi are there any accessible chess or mahjong games where you can play against the computer? Josh -- follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5961 / Virus Database: 4355/9985 - Release Date: 06/09/15 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong?
What about the spoonbill chess game for PC? http://www.spoonbillsoftware.com.au/bgchess.htm Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet... - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? its too bad the windows chess can't have an NVDA addon to make it more accessible. it is mostly accessible i think but I'm not sure what keyboard commands to use to play it. the windows7 chess titans game that is. I can arrow over the board no problem. it reads the board and pieces and if spaces are empty. i don't think it would take much to make it completely accessible plus its free. Josh follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/10/2015 4:46 AM, dark wrote: There are the two Kchess games, elite and advanced from arc angle software that have play against the computer, I've also heard shreader for Ios is accessible though I'm not certain on that one. As for Mahjong unfortunately not that I know, indeed I slightly wish there were sinse I have never played Mahjong but would be interested in learning. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 11:41 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? hi are there any accessible chess or mahjong games where you can play against the computer? Josh -- follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong?
thanks, sounds good I just ordered it along with 3 or 4 of their other games. Josh follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/10/2015 5:50 PM, Jacob Kruger wrote: What about the spoonbill chess game for PC? http://www.spoonbillsoftware.com.au/bgchess.htm Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet... - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? its too bad the windows chess can't have an NVDA addon to make it more accessible. it is mostly accessible i think but I'm not sure what keyboard commands to use to play it. the windows7 chess titans game that is. I can arrow over the board no problem. it reads the board and pieces and if spaces are empty. i don't think it would take much to make it completely accessible plus its free. Josh follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 6/10/2015 4:46 AM, dark wrote: There are the two Kchess games, elite and advanced from arc angle software that have play against the computer, I've also heard shreader for Ios is accessible though I'm not certain on that one. As for Mahjong unfortunately not that I know, indeed I slightly wish there were sinse I have never played Mahjong but would be interested in learning. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 11:41 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? hi are there any accessible chess or mahjong games where you can play against the computer? Josh -- follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong?
the chess game that comes with OSX for the mac is completely accessible, but few folks on list have a mac, so ... On Jun 9, 2015, at 6:41 PM, Josh K wrote: hi are there any accessible chess or mahjong games where you can play against the computer? Josh -- follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong?
Shredder Chess for the iPhone is very accessible. I use it extensively. The only thing that I find that you cannot do using Voice-Over is to set up and play from a position. As for the Arkangles software, the Elite is the one that I would prefer. It is better than the Advanced. Speaking of chess, for those interested, there are two chess events at a voice chat site, and signing up is free and pain less. Check out www.Out-Of-Sight.net --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 3:46 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? There are the two Kchess games, elite and advanced from arc angle software that have play against the computer, I've also heard shreader for Ios is accessible though I'm not certain on that one. As for Mahjong unfortunately not that I know, indeed I slightly wish there were sinse I have never played Mahjong but would be interested in learning. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Josh K joshknnd1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 11:41 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess or mahjong? hi are there any accessible chess or mahjong games where you can play against the computer? Josh -- follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5961 / Virus Database: 4355/9987 - Release Date: 06/10/15 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess or mahjong?
hi are there any accessible chess or mahjong games where you can play against the computer? Josh -- follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess
Hi. this appeared in tidbits tonight http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001T6KHyQJ3MPqfNdyzPplmTgOOPfsmO2wCdB0CbB4zkqZ6jCAUuDHq-skQMbcJ_j8ZMT81gtpb5BYrQDGVlq70Dlcekfl5ABZy3cjebjPP2_XHvjRrD-qe6-mc-NrrJbu8Q6DS6qczC396-Xp9YLCA7K2UK74XgCgjYVyoQ4oUxdQE1rmymxClGpy8MHZT3VOn4g_oTVbzsPVhwL7cY8Elc0M8C4zq2Sud1FNdxKkr--Bsr8KylsNC3w==c=zQNTuL1z2kr8tmjfdw5VrBBDSSRU8CeB_rMgFyOHdJyL7vTxQrN8Lg==ch=yvhTibDCuDpCmZvour0KNrbJzqokx3NtMLlhU6KuwA3r46YNwz10aQ==http://en.lichess.org/blog/U5AX_DcAADkAz-L5/accessibility-for-blind-players Its supposed to be accessable but I rarely touch the board these days. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
Yup. And you can keep it if you complete the entire course. I still have mine. Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! -Original Message- From: Thomas Ward Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 11:32 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind Hello Keith, The best way to learn Chess as a blind gamer is to sign up for the Chess course from Hadley School for the Blind. The course is fully accessible and you even get an accessible Chess set as a student. Cheers! On 6/27/14, Keith S ks.steinbac...@gmail.com wrote: can anyone suggest the best way for me to learn how to play chess as a blind person? I played when I had sight, but the notation method is confusing the crap out of me. Thanks Keith Blind but not Useless --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess
In general, I don't visit a URL unless I have information on it. If someone suggests that I click here, I want to know why I should do so. What is there that may be of interest? With that in mind, can you give more details? Thanks. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Shaun Everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 4:01 AM Subject: [Audyssey] chess Hi. this appeared in tidbits tonight http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001T6KHyQJ3MPqfNdyzPplmTgOOPfsmO2wCdB0CbB4zkqZ6jCAUuDHq-skQMbcJ_j8ZMT81gtpb5BYrQDGVlq70Dlcekfl5ABZy3cjebjPP2_XHvjRrD-qe6-mc-NrrJbu8Q6DS6qczC396-Xp9YLCA7K2UK74XgCgjYVyoQ4oUxdQE1rmymxClGpy8MHZT3VOn4g_oTVbzsPVhwL7cY8Elc0M8C4zq2Sud1FNdxKkr--Bsr8KylsNC3w==c=zQNTuL1z2kr8tmjfdw5VrBBDSSRU8CeB_rMgFyOHdJyL7vTxQrN8Lg==ch=yvhTibDCuDpCmZvour0KNrbJzqokx3NtMLlhU6KuwA3r46YNwz10aQ==http://en.lichess.org/blog/U5AX_DcAADkAz-L5/accessibility-for-blind-players Its supposed to be accessable but I rarely touch the board these days. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
Hi, I believe this may have gotten lost in the ether, as I myself did not get the eMail I sent, but I recall Charles mentioning that Shredder for the PC is accessible. TO what extent is this true? So far, I've gotten it to read its moves back to me, but not to see any representation o fthe chess board from withn shredder itself. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Peterson Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 7:32 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind Yup. And you can keep it if you complete the entire course. I still have mine. Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! -Original Message- From: Thomas Ward Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 11:32 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind Hello Keith, The best way to learn Chess as a blind gamer is to sign up for the Chess course from Hadley School for the Blind. The course is fully accessible and you even get an accessible Chess set as a student. Cheers! On 6/27/14, Keith S ks.steinbac...@gmail.com wrote: can anyone suggest the best way for me to learn how to play chess as a blind person? I played when I had sight, but the notation method is confusing the crap out of me. Thanks Keith Blind but not Useless --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
In terms of the physical boards, I have a peg type one, with the points on the black pieces. Mine is pretty big so keep it set up, but I have heard there are travel sets for the blind as well. I’ve never been any good at the computer version fo chess games, since I’m used to looking at the board to find where the pieces are. Blind chess sets can be rather interesting to try and play with sighted people, because sometimes the pieces don’t look anything like a standard set. I did have someone try and mark up a normal set once, but it didn’t work too well, since it wasn’t easy to distinguish between the black and white squares and the bumpons kept falling off the appropriate pieces. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
You say: I’ve never been any good at the computer version fo chess games, since I’m used to looking at the board to find where the pieces are. I ask: So, why not use your board and men, making the moves spoken by the computer program? Then you can scope out your own board to determine your move and enter it into the computer program? That's what I do, and it works perfectly. If the machine tells you to move a knight to f6, make the move on your board. If your next move is a bishop from C1 to G5, instruct the computer that this is your move. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Harmony Neil harmony.n...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind In terms of the physical boards, I have a peg type one, with the points on the black pieces. Mine is pretty big so keep it set up, but I have heard there are travel sets for the blind as well. I’ve never been any good at the computer version fo chess games, since I’m used to looking at the board to find where the pieces are. Blind chess sets can be rather interesting to try and play with sighted people, because sometimes the pieces don’t look anything like a standard set. I did have someone try and mark up a normal set once, but it didn’t work too well, since it wasn’t easy to distinguish between the black and white squares and the bumpons kept falling off the appropriate pieces. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
Interestingly, I've gotten to the point where I almost do better on the computer than on the board. I think so much in coordinates that that seems to work better for me. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Charles Rivard Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 3:58 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind You say: I've never been any good at the computer version fo chess games, since I'm used to looking at the board to find where the pieces are. I ask: So, why not use your board and men, making the moves spoken by the computer program? Then you can scope out your own board to determine your move and enter it into the computer program? That's what I do, and it works perfectly. If the machine tells you to move a knight to f6, make the move on your board. If your next move is a bishop from C1 to G5, instruct the computer that this is your move. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Harmony Neil harmony.n...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind In terms of the physical boards, I have a peg type one, with the points on the black pieces. Mine is pretty big so keep it set up, but I have heard there are travel sets for the blind as well. I've never been any good at the computer version fo chess games, since I'm used to looking at the board to find where the pieces are. Blind chess sets can be rather interesting to try and play with sighted people, because sometimes the pieces don't look anything like a standard set. I did have someone try and mark up a normal set once, but it didn't work too well, since it wasn't easy to distinguish between the black and white squares and the bumpons kept falling off the appropriate pieces. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
Hello Keith, The best way to learn Chess as a blind gamer is to sign up for the Chess course from Hadley School for the Blind. The course is fully accessible and you even get an accessible Chess set as a student. Cheers! On 6/27/14, Keith S ks.steinbac...@gmail.com wrote: can anyone suggest the best way for me to learn how to play chess as a blind person? I played when I had sight, but the notation method is confusing the crap out of me. Thanks Keith Blind but not Useless --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess and the blind
can anyone suggest the best way for me to learn how to play chess as a blind person? I played when I had sight, but the notation method is confusing the crap out of me. Thanks Keith Blind but not Useless --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
My personal advice would be to get a tactile chess set (sometimes called a braille chess set, even though they don't have braille on them), and start playing live against a human. To explain these are sets where there are holes in each square on the board and the peaces are on pegs so you can put your mits on the board without knocking them over, one side (usually the white, though not always), has pins on the top to tell them apart. I'm not sure where you'd get one from in your part of the world, they tend to be sold by the same places who sell braille cards, dice etc. Personally, while I understand chess notation, I find it near impossible to hold spacial information about the board in mind without the board. I want to put my hand on the white knight and my other finger on the square it will move to, and then put my fingers (and to a very much lesser extent my disfunctional eyeballs), on the surrounding squares and see if that move will be a bad or good one. This is why I've never got on with the various audio Chess games like BGChess challenge, Kchess elite etc. Sinse while they have some good audio overviews for the board, fundamentally you are still just getting the information square by square, and I don't find myself able to old enough spacial information about the board in mind for that sort of overview to really help me or make it possible for me to play chess. Of course this is me, and I will freely admit my spacial coordination is pretty cruddy, (even in mobility I tend to substitute routes and land mark memory instead of working out where I am spacially), you might be different though I'm guessing by your comment you could be in a similar position, hence my suggestion of a tactile chess set. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
Well the Hadley School for the Blind offers two free chess courses, Chess for Beginners and Chess: Principles and Strategies. You even get a free chess set with the first course which is yours to keep after you complete it. Each course has I believe six lessons, each with an accompanying assignment. The chess set is really nice as well. I still have mine from eight years ago, though I don't play so much these days. Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! -Original Message- From: Keith S Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 6:45 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] chess and the blind can anyone suggest the best way for me to learn how to play chess as a blind person? I played when I had sight, but the notation method is confusing the crap out of me. Thanks Keith Blind but not Useless --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
I agreeDark. Tat's wy I don't play onlie, even though you can get a free year of membership to an online Chess community for completing both of the two Ches courses offered by the Hadley School here in the US. Their chess set, which is included with their beginner's course, is really nice. It not only has the pegs and holes for easy piece placement and the pins denoting white and black pieces (in this case I believe it's the black ones), but the board is also brailled. The white side says wite and the other black, but the ranks and files are also denoted with letters and numbers. Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! -Original Message- From: dark Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 7:11 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind My personal advice would be to get a tactile chess set (sometimes called a braille chess set, even though they don't have braille on them), and start playing live against a human. To explain these are sets where there are holes in each square on the board and the peaces are on pegs so you can put your mits on the board without knocking them over, one side (usually the white, though not always), has pins on the top to tell them apart. I'm not sure where you'd get one from in your part of the world, they tend to be sold by the same places who sell braille cards, dice etc. Personally, while I understand chess notation, I find it near impossible to hold spacial information about the board in mind without the board. I want to put my hand on the white knight and my other finger on the square it will move to, and then put my fingers (and to a very much lesser extent my disfunctional eyeballs), on the surrounding squares and see if that move will be a bad or good one. This is why I've never got on with the various audio Chess games like BGChess challenge, Kchess elite etc. Sinse while they have some good audio overviews for the board, fundamentally you are still just getting the information square by square, and I don't find myself able to old enough spacial information about the board in mind for that sort of overview to really help me or make it possible for me to play chess. Of course this is me, and I will freely admit my spacial coordination is pretty cruddy, (even in mobility I tend to substitute routes and land mark memory instead of working out where I am spacially), you might be different though I'm guessing by your comment you could be in a similar position, hence my suggestion of a tactile chess set. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
I've got the same problem with the spacial distortion in my head.Just wanted to know how to do it so I could solve the alteraeon quest in Gads. Thanks Keith - Original Message - From: dark To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 8:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind My personal advice would be to get a tactile chess set (sometimes called a braille chess set, even though they don't have braille on them), and start playing live against a human. To explain these are sets where there are holes in each square on the board and the peaces are on pegs so you can put your mits on the board without knocking them over, one side (usually the white, though not always), has pins on the top to tell them apart. I'm not sure where you'd get one from in your part of the world, they tend to be sold by the same places who sell braille cards, dice etc. Personally, while I understand chess notation, I find it near impossible to hold spacial information about the board in mind without the board. I want to put my hand on the white knight and my other finger on the square it will move to, and then put my fingers (and to a very much lesser extent my disfunctional eyeballs), on the surrounding squares and see if that move will be a bad or good one. This is why I've never got on with the various audio Chess games like BGChess challenge, Kchess elite etc. Sinse while they have some good audio overviews for the board, fundamentally you are still just getting the information square by square, and I don't find myself able to old enough spacial information about the board in mind for that sort of overview to really help me or make it possible for me to play chess. Of course this is me, and I will freely admit my spacial coordination is pretty cruddy, (even in mobility I tend to substitute routes and land mark memory instead of working out where I am spacially), you might be different though I'm guessing by your comment you could be in a similar position, hence my suggestion of a tactile chess set. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
Why not use your own chess set to determine your moves? That's what I do when playing against either a human or a program. When the opponent tells you to move a knight to f6, make the move on your board. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 8:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind My personal advice would be to get a tactile chess set (sometimes called a braille chess set, even though they don't have braille on them), and start playing live against a human. To explain these are sets where there are holes in each square on the board and the peaces are on pegs so you can put your mits on the board without knocking them over, one side (usually the white, though not always), has pins on the top to tell them apart. I'm not sure where you'd get one from in your part of the world, they tend to be sold by the same places who sell braille cards, dice etc. Personally, while I understand chess notation, I find it near impossible to hold spacial information about the board in mind without the board. I want to put my hand on the white knight and my other finger on the square it will move to, and then put my fingers (and to a very much lesser extent my disfunctional eyeballs), on the surrounding squares and see if that move will be a bad or good one. This is why I've never got on with the various audio Chess games like BGChess challenge, Kchess elite etc. Sinse while they have some good audio overviews for the board, fundamentally you are still just getting the information square by square, and I don't find myself able to old enough spacial information about the board in mind for that sort of overview to really help me or make it possible for me to play chess. Of course this is me, and I will freely admit my spacial coordination is pretty cruddy, (even in mobility I tend to substitute routes and land mark memory instead of working out where I am spacially), you might be different though I'm guessing by your comment you could be in a similar position, hence my suggestion of a tactile chess set. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
I've never even attempted that one. Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! -Original Message- From: Keith S Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 8:58 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind I've got the same problem with the spacial distortion in my head.Just wanted to know how to do it so I could solve the alteraeon quest in Gads. Thanks Keith - Original Message - From: dark To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 8:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind My personal advice would be to get a tactile chess set (sometimes called a braille chess set, even though they don't have braille on them), and start playing live against a human. To explain these are sets where there are holes in each square on the board and the peaces are on pegs so you can put your mits on the board without knocking them over, one side (usually the white, though not always), has pins on the top to tell them apart. I'm not sure where you'd get one from in your part of the world, they tend to be sold by the same places who sell braille cards, dice etc. Personally, while I understand chess notation, I find it near impossible to hold spacial information about the board in mind without the board. I want to put my hand on the white knight and my other finger on the square it will move to, and then put my fingers (and to a very much lesser extent my disfunctional eyeballs), on the surrounding squares and see if that move will be a bad or good one. This is why I've never got on with the various audio Chess games like BGChess challenge, Kchess elite etc. Sinse while they have some good audio overviews for the board, fundamentally you are still just getting the information square by square, and I don't find myself able to old enough spacial information about the board in mind for that sort of overview to really help me or make it possible for me to play chess. Of course this is me, and I will freely admit my spacial coordination is pretty cruddy, (even in mobility I tend to substitute routes and land mark memory instead of working out where I am spacially), you might be different though I'm guessing by your comment you could be in a similar position, hence my suggestion of a tactile chess set. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
And the instructor is very good, as well. Patient and knowledgeable. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind Well the Hadley School for the Blind offers two free chess courses, Chess for Beginners and Chess: Principles and Strategies. You even get a free chess set with the first course which is yours to keep after you complete it. Each course has I believe six lessons, each with an accompanying assignment. The chess set is really nice as well. I still have mine from eight years ago, though I don't play so much these days. Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! -Original Message- From: Keith S Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 6:45 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] chess and the blind can anyone suggest the best way for me to learn how to play chess as a blind person? I played when I had sight, but the notation method is confusing the crap out of me. Thanks Keith Blind but not Useless --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
that sounds like a really good chess set bryan. Sinse the old one I used to own pretty much died due to lack of use (several peaces depegged), I tried buying a new one from the Rnib however i was quite disappointed. The peaces are tiny, however instead of black and white it's more like dark brown and slightly lighter brown (the contrast is quite horrible), and the peaces are extremely small and lumpy. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind I agreeDark. Tat's wy I don't play onlie, even though you can get a free year of membership to an online Chess community for completing both of the two Ches courses offered by the Hadley School here in the US. Their chess set, which is included with their beginner's course, is really nice. It not only has the pegs and holes for easy piece placement and the pins denoting white and black pieces (in this case I believe it's the black ones), but the board is also brailled. The white side says wite and the other black, but the ranks and files are also denoted with letters and numbers. Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! -Original Message- From: dark Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 7:11 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind My personal advice would be to get a tactile chess set (sometimes called a braille chess set, even though they don't have braille on them), and start playing live against a human. To explain these are sets where there are holes in each square on the board and the peaces are on pegs so you can put your mits on the board without knocking them over, one side (usually the white, though not always), has pins on the top to tell them apart. I'm not sure where you'd get one from in your part of the world, they tend to be sold by the same places who sell braille cards, dice etc. Personally, while I understand chess notation, I find it near impossible to hold spacial information about the board in mind without the board. I want to put my hand on the white knight and my other finger on the square it will move to, and then put my fingers (and to a very much lesser extent my disfunctional eyeballs), on the surrounding squares and see if that move will be a bad or good one. This is why I've never got on with the various audio Chess games like BGChess challenge, Kchess elite etc. Sinse while they have some good audio overviews for the board, fundamentally you are still just getting the information square by square, and I don't find myself able to old enough spacial information about the board in mind for that sort of overview to really help me or make it possible for me to play chess. Of course this is me, and I will freely admit my spacial coordination is pretty cruddy, (even in mobility I tend to substitute routes and land mark memory instead of working out where I am spacially), you might be different though I'm guessing by your comment you could be in a similar position, hence my suggestion of a tactile chess set. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
There is nothing that prevents you from using your own board and men, as long as they are of the Staunton design, regardless of whether you are playing against a human or a chess engine. Just make the moves as directed by the opponent. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind I agreeDark. Tat's wy I don't play onlie, even though you can get a free year of membership to an online Chess community for completing both of the two Ches courses offered by the Hadley School here in the US. Their chess set, which is included with their beginner's course, is really nice. It not only has the pegs and holes for easy piece placement and the pins denoting white and black pieces (in this case I believe it's the black ones), but the board is also brailled. The white side says wite and the other black, but the ranks and files are also denoted with letters and numbers. Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! -Original Message- From: dark Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 7:11 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind My personal advice would be to get a tactile chess set (sometimes called a braille chess set, even though they don't have braille on them), and start playing live against a human. To explain these are sets where there are holes in each square on the board and the peaces are on pegs so you can put your mits on the board without knocking them over, one side (usually the white, though not always), has pins on the top to tell them apart. I'm not sure where you'd get one from in your part of the world, they tend to be sold by the same places who sell braille cards, dice etc. Personally, while I understand chess notation, I find it near impossible to hold spacial information about the board in mind without the board. I want to put my hand on the white knight and my other finger on the square it will move to, and then put my fingers (and to a very much lesser extent my disfunctional eyeballs), on the surrounding squares and see if that move will be a bad or good one. This is why I've never got on with the various audio Chess games like BGChess challenge, Kchess elite etc. Sinse while they have some good audio overviews for the board, fundamentally you are still just getting the information square by square, and I don't find myself able to old enough spacial information about the board in mind for that sort of overview to really help me or make it possible for me to play chess. Of course this is me, and I will freely admit my spacial coordination is pretty cruddy, (even in mobility I tend to substitute routes and land mark memory instead of working out where I am spacially), you might be different though I'm guessing by your comment you could be in a similar position, hence my suggestion of a tactile chess set. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
There was a step by step guide to the alter quest on the audiogames.net forum i remember, sinse that's the only way I managed it myself, particularly sinse while I'm used to speaking and talking about moves on the board, eg e2/e4, the notation code used for commands I found rather whacky. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Keith S ks.steinbac...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind I've got the same problem with the spacial distortion in my head.Just wanted to know how to do it so I could solve the alteraeon quest in Gads. Thanks Keith - Original Message - From: dark To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 8:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind My personal advice would be to get a tactile chess set (sometimes called a braille chess set, even though they don't have braille on them), and start playing live against a human. To explain these are sets where there are holes in each square on the board and the peaces are on pegs so you can put your mits on the board without knocking them over, one side (usually the white, though not always), has pins on the top to tell them apart. I'm not sure where you'd get one from in your part of the world, they tend to be sold by the same places who sell braille cards, dice etc. Personally, while I understand chess notation, I find it near impossible to hold spacial information about the board in mind without the board. I want to put my hand on the white knight and my other finger on the square it will move to, and then put my fingers (and to a very much lesser extent my disfunctional eyeballs), on the surrounding squares and see if that move will be a bad or good one. This is why I've never got on with the various audio Chess games like BGChess challenge, Kchess elite etc. Sinse while they have some good audio overviews for the board, fundamentally you are still just getting the information square by square, and I don't find myself able to old enough spacial information about the board in mind for that sort of overview to really help me or make it possible for me to play chess. Of course this is me, and I will freely admit my spacial coordination is pretty cruddy, (even in mobility I tend to substitute routes and land mark memory instead of working out where I am spacially), you might be different though I'm guessing by your comment you could be in a similar position, hence my suggestion of a tactile chess set. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
I tried that charlse with K chess elite, however I think I must have misscounted moving one of my opponent's peaces sinse each game I tried I'd get a ways through and then the computer would tell me to move something I thought was an empty square or the like. It's odd, on the few occasions I played in braille chess tournaments I didn't have that problem, then again there was always an invigilator watching to make sure those sorts of things didn't happen. beware the grue! DArk. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
Although it is pricy, you can get a very well made tactual chess set from www.thechesshouse.com The pieces are tournament sized. I believe the set costs around $100. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind that sounds like a really good chess set bryan. Sinse the old one I used to own pretty much died due to lack of use (several peaces depegged), I tried buying a new one from the Rnib however i was quite disappointed. The peaces are tiny, however instead of black and white it's more like dark brown and slightly lighter brown (the contrast is quite horrible), and the peaces are extremely small and lumpy. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind I agreeDark. Tat's wy I don't play onlie, even though you can get a free year of membership to an online Chess community for completing both of the two Ches courses offered by the Hadley School here in the US. Their chess set, which is included with their beginner's course, is really nice. It not only has the pegs and holes for easy piece placement and the pins denoting white and black pieces (in this case I believe it's the black ones), but the board is also brailled. The white side says wite and the other black, but the ranks and files are also denoted with letters and numbers. Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! -Original Message- From: dark Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 7:11 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind My personal advice would be to get a tactile chess set (sometimes called a braille chess set, even though they don't have braille on them), and start playing live against a human. To explain these are sets where there are holes in each square on the board and the peaces are on pegs so you can put your mits on the board without knocking them over, one side (usually the white, though not always), has pins on the top to tell them apart. I'm not sure where you'd get one from in your part of the world, they tend to be sold by the same places who sell braille cards, dice etc. Personally, while I understand chess notation, I find it near impossible to hold spacial information about the board in mind without the board. I want to put my hand on the white knight and my other finger on the square it will move to, and then put my fingers (and to a very much lesser extent my disfunctional eyeballs), on the surrounding squares and see if that move will be a bad or good one. This is why I've never got on with the various audio Chess games like BGChess challenge, Kchess elite etc. Sinse while they have some good audio overviews for the board, fundamentally you are still just getting the information square by square, and I don't find myself able to old enough spacial information about the board in mind for that sort of overview to really help me or make it possible for me to play chess. Of course this is me, and I will freely admit my spacial coordination is pretty cruddy, (even in mobility I tend to substitute routes and land mark memory instead of working out where I am spacially), you might be different though I'm guessing by your comment you could be in a similar position, hence my suggestion of a tactile chess set. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
It's always a good idea to double check by using your arrow keys to review the board in cases like this. You can sometimes hear b7 when it actually said d7 or e7. Another very good chess program that is speech friendly is Shredder Chess. You can get it from www.shredderchess.com and you can also get it for an iDevice as well. Do a search in the app store. If you get it for an iDevice, you can get it for your PC for a discount price. I haven't found out what the cost is, but will do so next month. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind I tried that charlse with K chess elite, however I think I must have misscounted moving one of my opponent's peaces sinse each game I tried I'd get a ways through and then the computer would tell me to move something I thought was an empty square or the like. It's odd, on the few occasions I played in braille chess tournaments I didn't have that problem, then again there was always an invigilator watching to make sure those sorts of things didn't happen. beware the grue! DArk. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
Keith, There's two forms of notation. Algebraic notation is easier to fathom. In algebraic the files are lettered a through h from White's queen's rook right to white's King's rook. The ranks are then numbered from 1 to 8 counting from white's first rank. So a move of pawn e2-e4 is king's pawn from 2 to 4. As to playing, there are, or were several board game producers for the blind producing peg style chessboards for the blind that used alternating raised and depressed squares to represent the color, and that had pins or bumps on the black pieces to distinguish them from the white. I have such a board and it works well as you can look at board position without messing up the pieces. I hope this helps, Jeremy --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
Hi Charles, I was happy to hear that the PC versoin of Shredder is speech-friendly. The only issue is that I'm not sure what you meant byh that. I get no feedback on moved pieces, and I see no way to look at the board. What needs to h appen to make that work? Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Charles Rivard Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:48 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind It's always a good idea to double check by using your arrow keys to review the board in cases like this. You can sometimes hear b7 when it actually said d7 or e7. Another very good chess program that is speech friendly is Shredder Chess. You can get it from www.shredderchess.com and you can also get it for an iDevice as well. Do a search in the app store. If you get it for an iDevice, you can get it for your PC for a discount price. I haven't found out what the cost is, but will do so next month. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind I tried that charlse with K chess elite, however I think I must have misscounted moving one of my opponent's peaces sinse each game I tried I'd get a ways through and then the computer would tell me to move something I thought was an empty square or the like. It's odd, on the few occasions I played in braille chess tournaments I didn't have that problem, then again there was always an invigilator watching to make sure those sorts of things didn't happen. beware the grue! DArk. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
If I actually played more chess I'd rather considder that, assuming that that particular company do orders outside the states. Though I don't tend to play that much chess now. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind Although it is pricy, you can get a very well made tactual chess set from www.thechesshouse.com The pieces are tournament sized. I believe the set costs around $100. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind that sounds like a really good chess set bryan. Sinse the old one I used to own pretty much died due to lack of use (several peaces depegged), I tried buying a new one from the Rnib however i was quite disappointed. The peaces are tiny, however instead of black and white it's more like dark brown and slightly lighter brown (the contrast is quite horrible), and the peaces are extremely small and lumpy. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind I agreeDark. Tat's wy I don't play onlie, even though you can get a free year of membership to an online Chess community for completing both of the two Ches courses offered by the Hadley School here in the US. Their chess set, which is included with their beginner's course, is really nice. It not only has the pegs and holes for easy piece placement and the pins denoting white and black pieces (in this case I believe it's the black ones), but the board is also brailled. The white side says wite and the other black, but the ranks and files are also denoted with letters and numbers. Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! -Original Message- From: dark Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 7:11 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind My personal advice would be to get a tactile chess set (sometimes called a braille chess set, even though they don't have braille on them), and start playing live against a human. To explain these are sets where there are holes in each square on the board and the peaces are on pegs so you can put your mits on the board without knocking them over, one side (usually the white, though not always), has pins on the top to tell them apart. I'm not sure where you'd get one from in your part of the world, they tend to be sold by the same places who sell braille cards, dice etc. Personally, while I understand chess notation, I find it near impossible to hold spacial information about the board in mind without the board. I want to put my hand on the white knight and my other finger on the square it will move to, and then put my fingers (and to a very much lesser extent my disfunctional eyeballs), on the surrounding squares and see if that move will be a bad or good one. This is why I've never got on with the various audio Chess games like BGChess challenge, Kchess elite etc. Sinse while they have some good audio overviews for the board, fundamentally you are still just getting the information square by square, and I don't find myself able to old enough spacial information about the board in mind for that sort of overview to really help me or make it possible for me to play chess. Of course this is me, and I will freely admit my spacial coordination is pretty cruddy, (even in mobility I tend to substitute routes and land mark memory instead of working out where I am spacially), you might be different though I'm guessing by your comment you could be in a similar position, hence my suggestion of a tactile chess set. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via
[Audyssey] chess chat
Chess is a game that has withstood the test of time. Why? Because it is one of the greatest strategy games of all time. The playing field is level, whether you are fully sighted, totally blind, or whether you have other handicaps, or whether you have none. You don't have to be in great physical shape, you can play the game just about anywhere at any time. Want to know more? Join me for the Chess Chat in The Chess Castle at www.Out-Of-Sight.com on Wednesday afternoons. We do what you want to, ranging from not knowing anything at all but want to, to intermediate and beyond. We might play against each other. We might, as a team effort, try to beat a chess computer or program. We might improve our skills through the use of chess books. You call the shots, I'll host and, maybe, guide you along the road to chess improvement. Come on in and join the fun! If you haven't registered to join this voice chat community, where you can participate in team oriented games, meet old and new friends through family oriented general chat rooms, join Bible studies, get and give help with computers, learn about newer technologies such as the iPhone, listen to musicians showing their talents or do so yourself, among other fun activities, registration is free at the URL given above. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess chat correction
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[Audyssey] chess and alter aeon
Hi, was wondering if anyone has played the chess game in gad's landing in alter aeon. I know how to play chess, I used to play when I was sighted, but have not since entering the dark. I am sure it's just a matter of learning notation, but was wondering if anyone has played the alter aeon mini game if you will. Keith --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and alter aeon
Keith, There's a lot of people who have gone through that area and been able to do the chess quests, but quite frankly it's not simple. It's considered a 'very difficult' quest, and most of the people who have done it sat down and figured out what the boards are supposed to look like and played with the notation for a while to get it right. Don't expect to get it overnight, but if you're familiar with chess, you'll probably be able to do it. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Keith ks.steinbac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, was wondering if anyone has played the chess game in gad's landing in alter aeon. I know how to play chess, I used to play when I was sighted, but have not since entering the dark. I am sure it's just a matter of learning notation, but was wondering if anyone has played the alter aeon mini game if you will. Keith --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess and alter aeon
what gave me the clue was being told that you need to type the word open before each move. So open e2 e4 or open kxp or whatever. If you get really stuck jayde wrote a completely walkthrough of the quest on audiogames.net giving all the moves needed, though once I got how the notation worked I was able to go from there and figure the rest out, it was getting the game to accept the commands that seemed the problem for me. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Dennis Towne s...@xirr.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and alter aeon Keith, There's a lot of people who have gone through that area and been able to do the chess quests, but quite frankly it's not simple. It's considered a 'very difficult' quest, and most of the people who have done it sat down and figured out what the boards are supposed to look like and played with the notation for a while to get it right. Don't expect to get it overnight, but if you're familiar with chess, you'll probably be able to do it. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Keith ks.steinbac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, was wondering if anyone has played the chess game in gad's landing in alter aeon. I know how to play chess, I used to play when I was sighted, but have not since entering the dark. I am sure it's just a matter of learning notation, but was wondering if anyone has played the alter aeon mini game if you will. Keith --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess chat gets the OK!
We got the Go ahead, so here's the news: Chess Chat Hosted by Charles Rivard, and Alan Dicey Yes, Blind and Visually Impaired People, Can, and Do, Play Chess! We will tell you How You Can Learn to Play Chess Absolutely free of cost, including receiving a free full size highest quality Adaptive Chess Set! The Gymnastics of the Brain or The Martial Arts of the Mind feel the Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat or just have lots of fun, a fantastic hobby, wonderful inexpensive recreation, playing Blind or sighted people alike. A great way to meet others, take this games of Kings to whatever level you like! Each Week, We will be discussing all aspects of this great Sport, from how to get started, to improving your game if you play already! Each Wednesday at 2 PM EST in the USBCA #1 Yes, blind people can, and do play chess! Chat Room. Hope to see you there! If you're not currently a member of the Out of Sight community, signing up is free and painless. A chat client might need to be installed on your PC, but it's a snap to do. To sign up to receive a user name and password, and to download and install the chat client, go to: www.Out-Of-Sight.net Catch the vision, it's Out of Sight! --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess
Hi. any battle chess for the blind? I used to play battle chess on the amiga and there were sounds for things going on. it was rather interactive and for its time sounded quite good if a little cheap. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess-formula
Hello you! I registered in the freechess.org. I am interested in how to create a formula whereby using the command seek not I invite users with a rating lower than 1600 as my score is over 1600. I would be very grateful if I describe in detail the creation of such a formula as leading to the auxiliary fail something not working, perhaps I can not figure it out. Use winboard 4.5.2 jaws if it matters. Thank you! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess quest in alterean
Hi. Michael had it right at least first, the command is open then the coordinates you want the piece to move to, at least to my recollection it is. Sent with Thunderbird 3.1.13 portable. On 9/4/2011 1:28 PM, dark wrote: Hi. Has anyone done the chess quest under gad's landing? I've got to the giant board, but whenever I'm there I can't work out how to move my pieces. I've tried move pawn, move queen etc, but that doesn't work. I've tried b2 b4, I've tried say move b2 b4, say move queen, and say b2 b 4 etc, but nothing works! This is just the sort of thing I hate in if games, where it's clear what you have to do, but the stupid commands in the game won't let you do it, and I'm reasonably confident if I can actually just work out how to move the bloody pieces I can solve the chess puzzle. so if anyone's done it, some advice would be appreciated. Beware the grue! DArk. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess quest in alterean
Hi. Has anyone done the chess quest under gad's landing? I've got to the giant board, but whenever I'm there I can't work out how to move my pieces. I've tried move pawn, move queen etc, but that doesn't work. I've tried b2 b4, I've tried say move b2 b4, say move queen, and say b2 b 4 etc, but nothing works! This is just the sort of thing I hate in if games, where it's clear what you have to do, but the stupid commands in the game won't let you do it, and I'm reasonably confident if I can actually just work out how to move the bloody pieces I can solve the chess puzzle. so if anyone's done it, some advice would be appreciated. Beware the grue! DArk. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess quest in alterean
I've scene the board, but never even been able to register. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess quest in alterean
To register you just need to buy the registration tickit from the receptionist. Apparently according to dentin it has to be in letter notation, so I'll try that next. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: john jpcarnemo...@comcast.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 6:52 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess quest in alterean I've scene the board, but never even been able to register. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess quest in alterean
Hi, If you try something like open move where move is in letter notation, that might work, although since I've never done it myself I'm not sure, and then you might try order thing move too. Hth, -Michael. -Original Message- From: dark Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 12:28 PM To: Gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] chess quest in alterean Hi. Has anyone done the chess quest under gad's landing? I've got to the giant board, but whenever I'm there I can't work out how to move my pieces. I've tried move pawn, move queen etc, but that doesn't work. I've tried b2 b4, I've tried say move b2 b4, say move queen, and say b2 b 4 etc, but nothing works! This is just the sort of thing I hate in if games, where it's clear what you have to do, but the stupid commands in the game won't let you do it, and I'm reasonably confident if I can actually just work out how to move the bloody pieces I can solve the chess puzzle. so if anyone's done it, some advice would be appreciated. Beware the grue! DArk. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Chess stratigies
Thanks allot Sir. Cheers: Ramy Moustafa If music be the food of love, play on... email and msn: flutelo...@link.net facebook: www.facebook.com/moustafa.ramy web site: www.youtube.com/goldenear82 -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 7:33 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Chess stratigies If you use Kchess I'd suggest reading the tips there, it offers a game commentary which can be quite handy. I do remember a book called chess for tigers, which was both helpful, and rather fun (sinse it was written using jungle animals as examples). the author was a grand master, but I can't recall which unfortunately, wikipedia will have an artical though. Unfortunately though, generally the only way to get better at chess is to lose a lot, then try to think why you lost. I'm afraid that's all I can suggest for the time being, but iadmit I haven't played serious chess for quite a long time now. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Ramy Moustafa moshtaqlealga...@gmail.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 1:00 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Chess stratigies Hi all: If yyou please, I need some books, or things, to know chess stratigies, I know how to play chess, but I need to win :D Any ideas will be highly abbreciated. Cheers: Ramy Moustafa If music be the food of love, play on... email and msn: flutelo...@link.net facebook: www.facebook.com/moustafa.ramy web site: www.youtube.com/goldenear82 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Chess stratigies
Have you checked into the correspondence courses on how to play chess at www.hadley.edu yet? Although you said that you do know the game, here's why I suggest this option. I knew the game, but learned from a terrible player. I was tired of always losing to people. I heard about the two chess courses offered by Hadley, so took the first one just for kicks, thinking that what I needed was a new beginning or a different way to think about the game. The first chess course, for beginners, gave me a different outlook on the game, plus, a very nice chess set was included as part of the course material. Once you complete the course, you can keep the course material and the chess set, which is a very nice one. Then, I enrolled in the course of advanced tactics and strategies, which was a big, big help in improving my game. The cost cannot be beat, as there is no charge for either course. The material from both courses was adapted from a book written by a Grand Master of the game. They are a great reference source for the future, too, and you keep them after completion of the courses. You also, upon completion of the advanced course, receive a two year membership to the United States Braille Chess Association, which has a small library of chess books you can borrow, as well as an Email list through which you can challenge others in games for fun or in tournaments, as well as online in voice chat sessions. Based on my own experiences, I think that this is a very good way for anyone interested in chess to either get started or to improve. --- Shepherds are the best beasts! - Original Message - From: Ramy Moustafa moshtaqlealga...@gmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 8:01 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Chess stratigies Thanks allot Sir. Cheers: Ramy Moustafa If music be the food of love, play on... email and msn: flutelo...@link.net facebook: www.facebook.com/moustafa.ramy web site: www.youtube.com/goldenear82 -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 7:33 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Chess stratigies If you use Kchess I'd suggest reading the tips there, it offers a game commentary which can be quite handy. I do remember a book called chess for tigers, which was both helpful, and rather fun (sinse it was written using jungle animals as examples). the author was a grand master, but I can't recall which unfortunately, wikipedia will have an artical though. Unfortunately though, generally the only way to get better at chess is to lose a lot, then try to think why you lost. I'm afraid that's all I can suggest for the time being, but iadmit I haven't played serious chess for quite a long time now. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Ramy Moustafa moshtaqlealga...@gmail.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 1:00 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Chess stratigies Hi all: If yyou please, I need some books, or things, to know chess stratigies, I know how to play chess, but I need to win :D Any ideas will be highly abbreciated. Cheers: Ramy Moustafa If music be the food of love, play on... email and msn: flutelo...@link.net facebook: www.facebook.com/moustafa.ramy web site: www.youtube.com/goldenear82 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want
[Audyssey] Chess stratigies
Hi all: If yyou please, I need some books, or things, to know chess stratigies, I know how to play chess, but I need to win :D Any ideas will be highly abbreciated. Cheers: Ramy Moustafa If music be the food of love, play on... email and msn: flutelo...@link.net facebook: www.facebook.com/moustafa.ramy web site: www.youtube.com/goldenear82 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Chess stratigies
If you use Kchess I'd suggest reading the tips there, it offers a game commentary which can be quite handy. I do remember a book called chess for tigers, which was both helpful, and rather fun (sinse it was written using jungle animals as examples). the author was a grand master, but I can't recall which unfortunately, wikipedia will have an artical though. Unfortunately though, generally the only way to get better at chess is to lose a lot, then try to think why you lost. I'm afraid that's all I can suggest for the time being, but iadmit I haven't played serious chess for quite a long time now. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Ramy Moustafa moshtaqlealga...@gmail.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 1:00 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Chess stratigies Hi all: If yyou please, I need some books, or things, to know chess stratigies, I know how to play chess, but I need to win :D Any ideas will be highly abbreciated. Cheers: Ramy Moustafa If music be the food of love, play on... email and msn: flutelo...@link.net facebook: www.facebook.com/moustafa.ramy web site: www.youtube.com/goldenear82 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Chess Clock Programs
Kelly - I don't know if this will work for you but check out the FREE Dark timer at 7-128 Software. Select the Resources button on the home page and tab to tools. It unfortunately still has the Kevin voice. Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Chess Clock Programs
Yes. If I still have it, I can send you one, attached to an Email, when I get home, if that's OK with you. It's a good one, but I don't remember offhand where I got it from, as it was quite some time ago. It is a free program, created by someone in, I believe, South Africa. Many people use it. --- Shepherds are the best beasts! - Original Message - From: Kelly Sapergia ksaper...@sasktel.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:34 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Chess Clock Programs Hi, I just signed up for Hadley's Chess for Beginners course today. One of the things I read in the course synopsis is that there's a section on chess timers, and that reminded me of Jim Kitchen's Chess Clock program for DOS. Does anyone know of any good timers like this for Windows? Thanks. Yours Sincerely, Kelly John Sapergia For information regarding my Internet radio shows, links to my favorite sites, and more, visit my personal website at http://www.ksapergia.net/. If you need jingles, voiceovers and music for your project at an affordable price, visit KJS Productions at: http://www.kjsproductions.com/. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Chess Clock Programs
Hi, I just signed up for Hadley's Chess for Beginners course today. One of the things I read in the course synopsis is that there's a section on chess timers, and that reminded me of Jim Kitchen's Chess Clock program for DOS. Does anyone know of any good timers like this for Windows? Thanks. Yours Sincerely, Kelly John Sapergia For information regarding my Internet radio shows, links to my favorite sites, and more, visit my personal website at http://www.ksapergia.net/. If you need jingles, voiceovers and music for your project at an affordable price, visit KJS Productions at: http://www.kjsproductions.com/. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess question
Hey gamers. Does anyone know of where I can play chess on-line? Thanks for the help. HAVE FUN!! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess help
awesome! The site is www.hadley.edu - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 12:39 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess help 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 dyna.hender...@sasktel.net To: gamers@audyssey.org 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 __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess help
Hi Charles, You and I? Would sound good. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Charles Rivard Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 4:50 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess help Sounds like you and I aughta play a game or two one of these days? --- In God we trust! - Original Message - From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:53 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess help To answer your question, a rook, knight, bishop etc simply takes out the piece it lands on. As for a knight, no it does not take out the piece it jumps; this is not checkers Grin. About check and checkmate: when your king is in check, it can be captured. This means that you must immediately either move the king out of check or some how move a piece in the way, as your king *cannot* be captured. If, however, you cannot get out of check, this is considered checkmate and grants your opponent victory. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Shirley Starblanket Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:28 PM To: gamers@audyssey.org 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 __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[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 __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess help
Hi Shirley. have you got the Bg chess challenge game from spoonbill software? not only does it play chess, but it comes with a document entitled how to play chess which explains all the rules and maneuvers, pluss I believe the game has some degree of in game help if i remember rightly. You can either download it from Tom's site on http://www.usagamesinteractive.com/downloads/spoonbill-games/ or alternatelyou can send an E-mail requesting the game to Ian humphries who produces it (all his games are free and use ms sapi to be self-voicing). You can find out all about his games, and his E-mail address on http://www.omninet.net.au/~irhumph/blindgamers.htm to be honest, even if you just download bg chess from Tom's hosting site, --- Ian humphries does rather like E-mails from people sinse he likes to personally know who plays his games, pluss then he can put you on the mailing list to know about new releases if you wish. Hth. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Shirley Starblanket dyna.hender...@sasktel.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 9:28 PM 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 __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess help
To answer your question, a rook, knight, bishop etc simply takes out the piece it lands on. As for a knight, no it does not take out the piece it jumps; this is not checkers Grin. About check and checkmate: when your king is in check, it can be captured. This means that you must immediately either move the king out of check or some how move a piece in the way, as your king *cannot* be captured. If, however, you cannot get out of check, this is considered checkmate and grants your opponent victory. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Shirley Starblanket Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:28 PM To: gamers@audyssey.org 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 __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess help
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 dyna.hender...@sasktel.net To: gamers@audyssey.org 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 __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess help
Sounds like you and I aughta play a game or two one of these days? --- In God we trust! - Original Message - From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:53 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess help To answer your question, a rook, knight, bishop etc simply takes out the piece it lands on. As for a knight, no it does not take out the piece it jumps; this is not checkers Grin. About check and checkmate: when your king is in check, it can be captured. This means that you must immediately either move the king out of check or some how move a piece in the way, as your king *cannot* be captured. If, however, you cannot get out of check, this is considered checkmate and grants your opponent victory. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Shirley Starblanket Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:28 PM To: gamers@audyssey.org 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 __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess help
Hey gamers. Can somebody help to understand chess? Thanks. HAVE FUN! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess help
That's a hugely wide open question. What are you not understand in particular? --- In God we trust! - Original Message - From: Shirley Starblanket dyna.hender...@sasktel.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:30 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess help Hey gamers. Can somebody help to understand chess? Thanks. HAVE FUN! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess help
This email would not be or could it do justice. I love chess but it is a long drawn out game. Also I did find out that Chess Titan I think it is called on windows 7 is fully accessible. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Shirley Starblanket Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:30 PM To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] chess help Hey gamers. Can somebody help to understand chess? Thanks. HAVE FUN! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess game question
Hellow, Windows has one built in, which is accessible if you are using windows 7. Otherwise you can get one from the internet, but it's annoying because it won't let you make moves that are perfectly legal. Hope this helps, Harmony. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Shirley Starblanket Sent: 01 February 2010 2:26 AM To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] chess game question Hey gamers. Does anyone know where I can board game like, chess or checkers? I'm craving those games. Thanks for help. HAVE FUN!! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess game question
Hey gamers. Does anyone know where I can find some boards games like, Chess or checkers for for XP and has no installation? Thanks. HAVE FUN!! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess game question
As for getting games, there's no such things as not having to install them. Spoonbill Software does have a pretty good chess game. I wish I knew more folks that would play. Ron - Original Message - From: Shirley Starblanket dyna.hender...@sasktel.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 11:53 AM Subject: [Audyssey] chess game question Hey gamers. Does anyone know where I can find some boards games like, Chess or checkers for for XP and has no installation? Thanks. HAVE FUN!! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess game question
There is also KChess Elite, from www.arkangles.com I hope I spelled that correctly. If not, it is www.arcangles.com It is a very good program and works well with JAWS. I don't know how well it works with other screen readers. When installing, be sure to check the checkbox for using the program with a screen reader. HTH --- In God we trust! - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess game question The 2 chess games I know of off hand are winbord for only using with jaws, and BGChess challenge, which you can get/request via the listing on audiogames.net. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: Shirley Starblanket dyna.hender...@sasktel.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 4:25 AM Subject: [Audyssey] chess game question Hey gamers. Does anyone know where I can board game like, chess or checkers? I'm craving those games. Thanks for help. HAVE FUN!! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4822 (20100131) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4822 (20100131) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess game question
hmm the only one I can think of is winboard for jaws. on that note jim kitchen may be able to help. that is he hasn't got any may be an idea to write said things if he cares to I guess. he has monopoly and a few other things. If you can get chessmaster 6000 or chess master whatever version I know it is accessible at least some say it is I have never bothered with this. not sure about checkers. At 05:53 a.m. 2/02/2010, you wrote: Hey gamers. Does anyone know where I can find some boards games like, Chess or checkers for for XP and has no installation? Thanks. HAVE FUN!! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess game question
Hey gamers. Does anyone know where I can board game like, chess or checkers? I'm craving those games. Thanks for help. HAVE FUN!! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess game question
Are you meaning a game that uses a physical board?, or a computerized representation. Thanks. --- In God we trust! - Original Message - From: Shirley Starblanket dyna.hender...@sasktel.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:25 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess game question Hey gamers. Does anyone know where I can board game like, chess or checkers? I'm craving those games. Thanks for help. HAVE FUN!! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess game question
The 2 chess games I know of off hand are winbord for only using with jaws, and BGChess challenge, which you can get/request via the listing on audiogames.net. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: Shirley Starblanket dyna.hender...@sasktel.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 4:25 AM Subject: [Audyssey] chess game question Hey gamers. Does anyone know where I can board game like, chess or checkers? I'm craving those games. Thanks for help. HAVE FUN!! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4822 (20100131) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4822 (20100131) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess, anyone?
I will do my best to attend. This sounds really interesting. Chess is something I've been wanting to play for a very long time. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Charles Rivard Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:40 AM To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: [Audyssey] chess, anyone? You are invited to attend our weekly International Chess Club Meeting on Saturday in the Chess Parlor at for-the-people.com at 11:30 A.M. Eastern Time, 15:30 GMT or UTC. Everything is free! We can tell you how you can get free chess lessons, even if you have never played this great game. If you have any chess questions or would like to arrange a game, please attend the meeting. Our voice chat room over-the-board Chess Parlor Tournament and Ladder Tournament and other things will be discussed. Our tournaments are free and open to all, including beginners. You are welcome to observe any of our games in the Chess Parlor. A game is played in a couple of hours. It is voice-chat over-the-board chess. It is not correspondence chess or email chess. P.S. For-the-people.com is a set of voice chat rooms. It is free. To register for for-the-people, simply go to the web site, for-the-people.com, and follow the directions. After you have been accepted by for-the-people.com, to subscribe to ftp-ch...@yahoogroups.com, go to the for-the-people.com home page, and follow the e-mail list link. Keep checking, Jim Slagle U.S.A. Phone: 609 945 5415 --- Shepherds are the best beasts. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess, anyone?
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[Audyssey] chess, anyone?
You are invited to attend our weekly International Chess Club Meeting on Saturday in the Chess Parlor at for-the-people.com at 11:30 A.M. Eastern Time, 15:30 GMT or UTC. Everything is free! We can tell you how you can get free chess lessons, even if you have never played this great game. If you have any chess questions or would like to arrange a game, please attend the meeting. Our voice chat room over-the-board Chess Parlor Tournament and Ladder Tournament and other things will be discussed. Our tournaments are free and open to all, including beginners. You are welcome to observe any of our games in the Chess Parlor. A game is played in a couple of hours. It is voice-chat over-the-board chess. It is not correspondence chess or email chess. P.S. For-the-people.com is a set of voice chat rooms. It is free. To register for for-the-people, simply go to the web site, for-the-people.com, and follow the directions. After you have been accepted by for-the-people.com, to subscribe to ftp-ch...@yahoogroups.com, go to the for-the-people.com home page, and follow the e-mail list link. Keep checking, Jim Slagle U.S.A. Phone: 609 945 5415 --- Shepherds are the best beasts. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess game for the Pac Mate
Has anyone gotten the chess program to work on a Pac Mate with firmware 4.61? I cannot get the game to speak moves, nor can I successfully convey my move to the program. I've tried entering e4 as well as e2e4 with no success. Also, what is the cost of the game? The demo only allows 5 games to be played. Any assistance with this game will be appreciated. Also, what is a question mark on a BX unit? --- Shepherds are the best beasts. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] chess game for the Pac Mate
I believe a question mark is dots 1 4 5 6, as your using computer braille. contact details: email: tcwoo...@shaw.ca and others msn: the_conman...@hotmail.com skype: the_conman283 system details: Hp pavillion dv5220CA notebook pc AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 2.0 GHZ, 1024 mb DDR ram, Fujitsu 100 gb 4500 RPM Hard Drive, connecsant AC-link audio - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net To: audyssey gamers group Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:59 PM Subject: [Audyssey] chess game for the Pac Mate Has anyone gotten the chess program to work on a Pac Mate with firmware 4.61? I cannot get the game to speak moves, nor can I successfully convey my move to the program. I've tried entering e4 as well as e2e4 with no success. Also, what is the cost of the game? The demo only allows 5 games to be played. Any assistance with this game will be appreciated. Also, what is a question mark on a BX unit? --- Shepherds are the best beasts. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Chess Games
Hello there, Have you played KChess v4 Elite? I downloaded the demo and am having major problems trying to figure out how to use it. Am I supposed to use the Jaws cursor mode to get to stuff or stay in the PC Cursor mode to get to info? Is there enough help for a blind user in the help menu to figure out how to use this game or do I need to go to the web site and find a tutorial there? thanks for any help u can offer. Robert --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Chess Games
I am currently learning the game of chess, it sounds a fascinating game to get in to. On 27 Feb 2009, at 02:55, dark wrote: Hi Robert. The two Kchess games, ilete and advanced are I think what you want. both have board printing options, and indeed a graphical board, but are highly screen reader friendly, with all the standard windows commands in menues for example and various ways of reviewing the board. They also save games in multiple file formats which should help in your postal games I think. The only bad news is they're not free, but both have a 30 day evaluation period. For more info go to: http://www.arkangles.com/ Hth. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Robert Montowski r_montow...@yahoo.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:42 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Chess Games Does anyone know how many blind accessible chess games there are out there for computers? I would like to play long distance snail mail chess games with a buddy of mine. Do any of these games let a blind person play chess and will also show the chess board or offer the option of printing the chess board to mail toa sighted person to look at? thanks for any help you folks can offer. Robert --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org . 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org . 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Chess Games
One of the best tools for the blind to learn chess that I have come across is the Hadley School. They offer a correspondence course in either braille or on audio cassettes for beginners. After you complete this course, if interested, they offer a more advanced course in the same formats. Each comes with a set of braille diagrams as part of the study material. You learn at your own pace, and the instructor is patient and friendly. The courses come with everything you need, even a chess set adapted for blind players that is very nice with the course for beginners. After completing these courses, you can keep the study materials for future reference. Offhand, I don't recall the web address, although I'm certain that you can find it using your favorite search engine. --- If guns cause crime, pencils cause misspelled words. - Original Message - From: william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Chess Games I am currently learning the game of chess, it sounds a fascinating game to get in to. On 27 Feb 2009, at 02:55, dark wrote: Hi Robert. The two Kchess games, ilete and advanced are I think what you want. both have board printing options, and indeed a graphical board, but are highly screen reader friendly, with all the standard windows commands in menues for example and various ways of reviewing the board. They also save games in multiple file formats which should help in your postal games I think. The only bad news is they're not free, but both have a 30 day evaluation period. For more info go to: http://www.arkangles.com/ Hth. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Robert Montowski r_montow...@yahoo.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:42 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Chess Games Does anyone know how many blind accessible chess games there are out there for computers? I would like to play long distance snail mail chess games with a buddy of mine. Do any of these games let a blind person play chess and will also show the chess board or offer the option of printing the chess board to mail toa sighted person to look at? thanks for any help you folks can offer. Robert --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org . 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org . 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Chess Games
Does anyone know how many blind accessible chess games there are out there for computers? I would like to play long distance snail mail chess games with a buddy of mine. Do any of these games let a blind person play chess and will also show the chess board or offer the option of printing the chess board to mail toa sighted person to look at? thanks for any help you folks can offer. Robert --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Chess Games
Hi Robert. The two Kchess games, ilete and advanced are I think what you want. both have board printing options, and indeed a graphical board, but are highly screen reader friendly, with all the standard windows commands in menues for example and various ways of reviewing the board. They also save games in multiple file formats which should help in your postal games I think. The only bad news is they're not free, but both have a 30 day evaluation period. For more info go to: http://www.arkangles.com/ Hth. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Robert Montowski r_montow...@yahoo.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:42 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Chess Games Does anyone know how many blind accessible chess games there are out there for computers? I would like to play long distance snail mail chess games with a buddy of mine. Do any of these games let a blind person play chess and will also show the chess board or offer the option of printing the chess board to mail toa sighted person to look at? thanks for any help you folks can offer. Robert --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Chess Games
KChess Elite is the best. As for how many chess programs are out there, I have no idea. --- If guns cause crime, pencils cause misspelled words. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Chess Games Hi Robert. The two Kchess games, ilete and advanced are I think what you want. both have board printing options, and indeed a graphical board, but are highly screen reader friendly, with all the standard windows commands in menues for example and various ways of reviewing the board. They also save games in multiple file formats which should help in your postal games I think. The only bad news is they're not free, but both have a 30 day evaluation period. For more info go to: http://www.arkangles.com/ Hth. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Robert Montowski r_montow...@yahoo.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:42 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Chess Games Does anyone know how many blind accessible chess games there are out there for computers? I would like to play long distance snail mail chess games with a buddy of mine. Do any of these games let a blind person play chess and will also show the chess board or offer the option of printing the chess board to mail toa sighted person to look at? thanks for any help you folks can offer. Robert --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Chess Games
hmmm. not many there is winboard, and gnuchess. and then cchess alleate or something from arcangles but again no addresses for those. don't know if they exist or whatever. I do know some of them are quite out dated at least winboard is. you aparently can use cmchess 6000 reasonably well but don't quote me on that. there is a dos chess floating round but don't know where that is. At 03:42 p.m. 27/02/2009, you wrote: Does anyone know how many blind accessible chess games there are out there for computers? I would like to play long distance snail mail chess games with a buddy of mine. Do any of these games let a blind person play chess and will also show the chess board or offer the option of printing the chess board to mail toa sighted person to look at? thanks for any help you folks can offer. Robert --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] chess
Hi Chess Players, as well as want to be chess players: The American Printing House for the Blind's Fred's Head Companion blog has an entry about playing chess. It includes descriptions of the game, mentions adapted chess sets, and has links to the USBCA web site. The blog is at http://www.fredshead.info/. The Printing House is the place to go for accessible educational materials. I hope some students learn about chess and the USBCA through this posting. --- Pretty is as pretty does. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org 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]
Re: [Audyssey] chess
Thanks for this. I haven't played chess for a while, but I want to get back into it. - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:12 AM Subject: [Audyssey] chess Hi Chess Players, as well as want to be chess players: The American Printing House for the Blind's Fred's Head Companion blog has an entry about playing chess. It includes descriptions of the game, mentions adapted chess sets, and has links to the USBCA web site. The blog is at http://www.fredshead.info/. The Printing House is the place to go for accessible educational materials. I hope some students learn about chess and the USBCA through this posting. --- Pretty is as pretty does. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org 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 __ Gamers@audyssey.org 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]
[Audyssey] chess for the blind
To hear an informative audio program on what is needed for blind people to play chess, and how it is done, the link is http://accessibleworld.org/audio/download/146/04-21-08.mp3 --- Laughter is the best medicine. Look around you and find a dose. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org 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]
Re: [Audyssey] chess challenge - Re: logic and spatialawarenessgames
I'm not sure what you mean by chess braille, I once read a chess stratogy book on tape, and used to note my moves down on tape as I mentioned, - Eg, queen takes rook on felix 7, there probably is a standardized way of writing it, but I'm not sure what it would be. generally speaking, while I like reading braille lables on things etc, i do much more stuff on tape or through synths because it's quicker, and usually reserve braille books for the train anyway. beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:17 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess challenge - Re: logic and spatialawarenessgames Hi Dark and Charles, I don't know chess braille at all, but is it true what I've heard that American chess braille is different to British chess one? Ari --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org 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] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.2/1270 - Release Date: 10/02/2008 12:21 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org 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]
