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Article #4407Talking Chess Games
From: Clark Dorman
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 00:00
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Greetings, I am in contact with a blind chess player who is interested in obtaining a talking chess program. I have given him the latest version of gnuchess ported to DOS and that should work fine. Basically, he has an on-board speech synthesizer that operates as a TSR, and he can have it read anything on the screen in text. gnuchesr (i.e. the pure ascii version) should be perfect. Anyway, he had heard of a program by the free software foundation called: gnu32.lzh Is this a real program? Supposedly, it was at oak.oakland.edu in the directory /simtel/msdos/gnuish, but it is not there now. (BTW, in case you are not familiar with blind chess boards, they have pegs on the bottom of each peice, which fit into holes in the middle of each square. The squares themselves are at different levels (white slightly higher than black, I think). The black pieces have a small bump or nail with the head still exposed. The players normally each maintain their own board, so they can spend all their time feeling the board and peices.) -- Clark Dorman http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/dorman/Dorman.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,240f04776c69a8e9,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public From: dorman@cochlea.bu.edu (Clark Dorman) Subject: Talking Chess Games Date: 1995/04/02 Message-ID: <DORMAN.95Apr2113851@cochlea.bu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 100731236 distribution: world organization: Boston University - Center for Adaptive Systems newsgroups: gnu.chess