Blindfold chess is a form of chess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces and do not touch them.
Chess for blind players.
Thanks to recent improvements it is really easy to start playing chess games through lichess using screenreader.
The black and white.
First of all the large 9 x 13 wooden board is beautifully hand painted with brightly contrasting colors for the black and white squares.
Moves are communicated via a recognized chess notation.
It is not really possible to play games without blind mode turned on.
These chess sets are designed specially with easily differentiable squares and pieces.
A special chess board for the blind players is used where the squares on the braille board are lifted and have dots on them to identify the particular squares on the board.
The pieces have points or pegs atop one color of chessmen.
Chess for blind or visually impaired.
So are you blind or visually impaired and would like to learn how to play the great game of chess.
The chess boards have raised and recessed squares.
The first thing you need to do is to press enable blind mode button which should be one of first elements you encounter on the site.
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.
Here s an elegant full sized completely tactile chess set for blind and visually impaired players and their sighted friends and families.
This forces players to maintain a mental model of the positions of the pieces.