[blind-chess] Re: Revising Help Rules
- From: Roderick Macdonald <rmacd@xxxxxxxx>
- To: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:30:16 -1000 (HST)
Jim,
If you want to research specific subjects related to chess, Wikipedia is a
great resource and it is where I dig out much of what I put in articles. I
would suggest going to Google first and search fir chess, wikipedia and
another term ro two to narrow it down to what you want to read about. Or
else try chess wikipedia "chess articles" and look for their index of
chess articles. There are hundreds (at least). If you download their index
of articles you can then search for specific ones when you want them.
Another good resource is Chess Cafe. (http://www.chesscafe.com/) it is
essentially a free online magazine, with monthly columns with topics like
"Novice Nook", "Step by Step", "The Kibitzer", and so on. They also have a
huge archive of past articles (mostly in PDF format) that is easily
accessed from the website, and there are annotations to explain what the
articles are about.
http://www.chessville.com/ is also a very good learning site. So is
http://www.chess.com/. You can also go to http://www.chesscentral.com/ and
join their (free) members area, and once there there are lots of articles.
Many of these sites are commercial - they sell books, chess sets and so on
- and they make this info available to attract folks to their sites.
Unfortunately, many of these sites use diagrams for chess positions that
are not accessible. Sometimes they give the moves and sometimes they do
not. Wikipedia, though, while using diagrams at least uses diagrams that
my text-based browser (Lynx) can convert to text.
I'll see about writing an article one of these days on accessible sites
for chess information.
Rod
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