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Talking Chess Games

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From: Clark Dorman
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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From: dorman@cochlea.bu.edu (Clark Dorman)
Subject: Talking Chess Games
Date: 1995/04/02
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