[blind-chess] Re: Excel Chess Board?
- From: Jim <jhomme1028@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:10:07 -0400
Hi Alvin,
WinBoard is much more powerful at many things than BG Chess Chalenge.
I recommend that you give it a try. I know that BG Chess Chalenge is
supposed to be made for blind players, but WinBoard is better at
analysis, it follows algebraic and FEN notation better, it has a
configurable chess clock, you can use it to play games on the Free
Internet Chess Server with millions of people all over the world, you
can load game files with thousands of games into it. You can hook it
up to many chess engines, and it was built to use the JAWS engine with
Eloquence, which should be familiar to you. Plus, if you really want
to play in the Internet Chess Server, I just created a little JAWS
script set that makes that part of the program talk much better.
Thanks.
Jim
On 9/28/10, alvin blazik <ablazik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jim,
> Excel seemed to be a natural only because of the column headings A thru H
> and I definitely needed
> something better than the Notepad Chessboard that I had set up. Since an
> email from Ed Z and you
> this afternoon, mentioning BG Chess and winboard, I have decided to look
> into BG Chess to use for
> my multiple chessboard situation. I can open and close different games as
> their emails come in. Use
> the already setup Chess environment to validate my moves and, hopefully,
> keystroke checks for piece
> attacks. If they don't exist in BG Chess, then I will go to Winboard, like
> you use, and use all of
> it's features except making suggestions for best moves.
> Alvin
>
>
> -- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim" <jhomme1028@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 7:43 PM
> Subject: [blind-chess] Re: Excel Chess Board?
>
>
> Hi Alvin,
> Are you talking about a spreadsheet that would make the move when you
> type it into a form in algebraic notation? I know of no such thing,
> but it has to be possible to make such a thing, since you have the
> whole of VisualBisic for Applications at your disposal. I'd imagine
> that you could also have as many games going as you'd ever want. All
> you'd have to do is copying workbooks. Heck, you could probably get
> one to even read in pgn files for you. But why not get a pgn file
> viewer program. I'd bet they can be found.
>
> Jim
>
> On 9/26/10, alvin blazik <ablazik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Listers,
>> Before I start to "reinvent the wheel", has anyone heard or know of an
>> Excel
>> spreadsheet that
>> simulates a 64 square Chess board? Please let me know about it either
>> directly or on the
>> list.Enjoying Chess, Alvin
>>
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