Thanks for the effort, friend! I hope you didn't strain yourself! (grin) Can your eminence believe that I've been trying to help your illustrious dictator (on my own,of course) by trying to find possible Braille transcribers who might be willing to take on a project of putting chess diagrams into Braille? I have a manual for the little electronic chess game Mary gave me for Christmas ten years ago; andI fortunately found, with the library for the blind's assistance, one who knew chess and was able to transcribe that manual with all the diagrams into Braille for me at a reasonable cost. --- So if your boss and his cronies are willing to cough up enough to some of the Braille volunteers to transcribe some of the chess books into Braille, more power to them. In fact, I found quite a few in Florida alone with whom Mr. D might make contact. Why not go to the NLS website and see what possibilities you may find in Pennsylvania. Go to the "Braille Transcriber" link. And! have! fun!