Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 47, Issue 12re: gnuchess

[aerospace1028 at hotmail.com]

greetings,
It's difficult for me to thell from your post exacctly what your problem is.

(a) if it's dealing with the display: gnuchess by default has a textual display, and there are several graphical overlays that can be obtained.  I can not comment on the graphical front-ends because I have never used them.  The simple text display of the board uses capital letters for player 1 (the light colored pieces), so "R" for player 1's rook; and lower case letter for player 2 (the dark colored pieces), so "r" for player 2's rook.  It might be difficult to notice these differences with orca/speakup/etc, many vissually impared users of gnuchess typically use a braille display to review the board.

(b) if you are having a problem entering in your moves:
Again, I can not comment of the various graphical over-lays.  Running gnuchess from the commandline in text mode, standard algebraic notation works.  I.E. RA1-a5 would move a rook from square a1 to a5 (assuming this is a legal move).  If you are trying to caputre a rook with a rook, Ra1xRa8 (or whaterver the case may be).  As long as you include the starting and ending square, there should never be any confusion.

If you still have trouble with this, e-mail me off-list and i'll try and help you as best I can:-)
 		 	   		  
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