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Subject: Blindfold chess

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 05:22:02 02/03/06


What do exist of GUI's to play blindfold chess.

I've started pondering of making such a gui, but maybe it is there allready.

Here is what I want from it.

- Both players plays each own PC.
- In a tournament it could be nice to have a 'tournament server' to keep track
of the moves, ev. show the game to the public.
- For training purpose it should be possible to let only one player be 'blind'.
- Different kind of move annocement. Speaking moves, displaying from to square,
and maybe with animating last move with moving piece. Last move must be easy to
replay.
- Easy to use over the Internet. It doesn't matter if it is easy to cheat
because if used in a tournament you must have an observer on each location
anyway. (And for training the only cheated are the cheater.)

How I would do it is to create a chess server ala fics, icc, in a light version.
This could be running either on a tournament server or on a players machine.
Then create a client gui with the wanted features.

Odd Gunnar



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