Large tabletop chess set comes with two slide open drawers that neatly hold all the playing pieces.
Chess for blind people.
The selection of chess sets begins with our newest solid wood design in sheeshamwood and boxwood.
First of all the large 9 x 13 wooden board is beautifully hand painted with brightly contrasting colors for the black and white squares.
Large table top chess set for the blind or those with low vision.
Moves are communicated via a recognized chess notation.
In simultaneous blindfold play an intermediary usually relays the moves.
When playing chess there is a rule that if you touch a piece on the board you have to move with it.
This forces players to maintain a mental model of the positions of the pieces.
White pieces have bumps on top to differentiate against the black pieces.
Blindfold chess is a form of chess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces and do not touch them.
Now obviously this doesn t work for blind people as they have to feel the pieces and board but according to the official chess rules a piece in blind chess is considered as touched when it s being removed from it s position on the board.
The pieces have points or pegs atop one color of chessmen.
Blindfold chess was considered miraculous for centuries but now there is greater recognition of people who can keep track of more than one simultaneous blindfolded game.
The united states blind chess association us bca has been around since the late nineteen sixties and is dedicated to encouraging and assisting in the promotion and advancement of correspondence and over the board chess among chess enthusiasts who are blind or visually impaired.
The chess boards have raised and recessed squares.
Chess for blind or visually impaired.
Play this tactile chess game.