Hi lukas
Thanks very much for your help and the info you've sent me.
Kind regards
Anthony
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From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lucas Radaelli
Sent: 06 July 2016 21:45
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: Fritz and Chessbase
This page has everything that you need:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/winboard45forja/
Just run the setup. Once it is installed, the docs of the program can help you
get started.
On 06/07/2016 15:10, anthony borg wrote:
Hello
Can you please explain to me how to install the winboard? And from where I
can download it?
I recently installed the chessbase reader but I don't know from where I can
get the book either.
I don't know if you can be of any help to me.
Kind regards
Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lucas Radaelli
Sent: 06 July 2016 17:48
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: Fritz and Chessbase
Well, if you are trying to play against the computer, my suggestions are:
1. Shredder for i Phone lets you select the playing strength of the computer
and it is fully accessible.
2. For windows, you can use winboard and set it up with several chess engines
and play against it. You can tweak the configurations to configure the
playing strength. You can use, for example, crafty that is open source.
3. Lechess, the website, is also somewhat accessible.
For tactics:
- I am helping a developer to make a website that contains tactics
accessible. Hope to have news soon.
On 06/07/2016 12:20, Karma Könchog Jungné wrote:
That really is a shame. It is so easy nowadays to make applications
accessible to the blind. All you have to do is to stick to the Microsoft
Office programming guide lines, and avoid getting too fancy with the
interface. Chess Titan is so boring and predictable, and so vulnerable to
overloaded positions. Overload it hard enough, and it starts throwing away
pieces, including queens and rooks. I did manage an elegant mating attack
using two knoghts and two bishops--no major pieces at all--all four pieces
were necessary.
patrick
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From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lucas Radaelli
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 9:14 AM
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: Fritz and Chessbase
Well, I ran into the same problems that you are having. I tried to use a
free version of chessbase with NVDA, and some items on the screen were
readable, but that's all. The rest was totally unusable.
Maybe it depends on the version (I need to double check which one I was
trying at home), but I don't expect it to be accessible.
On 05/07/2016 18:11, Karma Könchog Jungné wrote:
Hello,
I downloaded the demo version of Fritz 12, and found that, at least as far
as I could tell, it is completely useless to the blind. JAWS cursor could
not find the menu items in order to configure the multimedia settings.
There is an article on the Braille Chess Association of Britain's webpage
that says Fritz 14 and Fritz 15 are accessible, with the JAWS cursor and
some tweaking, to the blind. I am also interested in learning if there is
a way to use chessbase by blind users.
many thankks
patrick
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From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Ross
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 6:32 PM
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: reading cbv files?
All,
A lot of traffic on this list and the sister-ones.
Can I suggest that folk write to individuals instead of the lists with
personal suggestions?
Lucas, save the CBV into a different format. In your chess-base or Fritz or
whatever you are using, save the book/cbv file into a PGN file, which is
one single file. This is more manageable than a bunch of files and will
allow you to manipulate it in other applications.
So, save it in a PGN format, as that is easy and allows you to word-process
it.
Then, open up the PGN file in WordPad or Notepad, and you can go through it
in a Word-Processing method and edit/format at will. Learn how the
punctuation is set out, to indicate when variations are suggested and
sub-lines are opened and closed.
Can I stress though, as I have done many a time on this list, that reading
these books, reading such things, is a useful, but not the absolute way to
improve ones chess. Again, without wanting to repeat myself, get a basic
repertoire of openings, a foundation of a way you need to set out in a
positional sense from the outset. Get that basic setting done, then, you
can move onto middle-game tactics and strategic structures.
I gain the impression that your focus, objective approach is not centred in
a productive, or, effective manner.
Cheers,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lucas Radaelli
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 7:22 PM
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: reading cbv files?
I can try to mail the blog author.... :) On 30/06/2016 15:17, Mark R Hague
wrote:
I don't suppose you could get a pgn version of the book?
Mark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucas Radaelli" <lucasradaelli@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 7:01 PM
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: reading cbv files?
I am a computer science graduate and still getting problems....
jokes aside, I tried openning the encoded cbv file by hand to see
if the format was parseable somehow, but it is not the case. Cbv
turns out to be a closed format of the chessbase program, so it is
not possible to write a script apparently to convert it.
Anyway, thanks for the comments, I will keep trying different alternatives.
On 30/06/2016 13:34, Mark R Hague wrote:
HI Lucas,---
my experience is that it all depends on how the chesssbase code has
been compiled by the author. Unfortunately the more complicated the
code is the less likely it is to be accessible. I get the
impression that older and therefore simpler chessbase CDs are more
accessible as I believe so is the chessbase magazines produced in the
chessbase format.
Try using different screen readers and if you can try it on a
different version of windows. that might give you better results.
One can also try and tweek the chessbase reader settings to make it
announce moves which can sometimes help. Also many chessbase CDs
contain individual vidio files which can be played separately often
located in a folder called html or pocket fritz. It is regretable
that you need to be a Computer Science graduate to attempt to read
chessbase files if you are visually impaired.
regards,
Mark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucas Radaelli" <lucasradaelli@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 2:38 PM
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: reading cbv files?
did not have success using chessbase and nvda.
I can open the book, navigate in its contents, but opening any item
on the list brings me to a window that it is inaccessible, where I
suppose that the content of the book is.
Is anyone able to use chessbase with a screen reader?
On 29/06/2016 08:23, Jim wrote:
Hi,---
It looks like Google was my friend. See this link.
http://download.chessbase.com/Download/ChessBaseReader/Setup.msi
Jim
On 6/29/16, Mark R Hague <Mark.hague.list@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
try and use the free chessbase reader program as a first try.
Most chessbase cds include a free copy of this program.
Mark.
----- Original Message -----
From: Lucas Radaelli (Redacted sender "lucasradaelli" for DMARC)
To: US BCA
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 2:24 PM
Subject: [usbca_chess] reading cbv files?
Reading about the sicilian dragon on the Internet, I came across
this book, that is available for download for free.
It is in cbv format. Googling a little bit more it says that this
is the chessbase format.
I don't have chessbase yet, and I am not planning to buy it very soon...
So, was wondering what program you use to read cbv, and if it is
accessible or not.
Thanks.
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