Tashi Delek! Or Happy Blessings in Tibetan.
I was on here briefly in 2008 or 2009 or so. I grew frustrated with the local
chess tournament organizer an sighted players who allowed me to misplace pieces
when they told me what their move was, and taking victories away from me in the
most unfair way possible. Going back to the position, ssome 10-15 moves and
then giving each of us five minutes to complete the game when the position on
the board was completely new to me. I did rather well in the US Blind Chess
tournament, finishing second. Most people know me as Patrick Wals, but I have
been ordained as a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition since then..
I am looking forward to getting more involved in chess again, but I will not be
playing any OTB tournament against sighted players again. I am going to
restrict myself to correspondence chess. I believe my rating in CC is around
1625 or so.
Any new technology for blind chess players out there? I see that Fritz has an
"announce move" feature, but what I really want to work on is tactics, and to
do that I would like to move the cursor square by square, to see what piece is
in that square if any, and then set up the position on my tactile chess board,
and solve the problem. I believe that beyond an opening repertoire of four
five moves for the main variation, some idea of middle game play--like how to
attack the base of a pawn chain, tactics and combinations are the most
important things to practice with for an intermediate player. So does Fritz
have a square by square feature that allows the user to set up the board and
solve the problem?
Thanks
Venerable Karma Konchog Jungney
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[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
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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.
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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.
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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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