Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 13:28:53 02/03/06
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On February 03, 2006 at 09:58:02, Albert Silver wrote: >On February 03, 2006 at 09:37:00, Alessandro Scotti wrote: > >>On February 03, 2006 at 08:22:02, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >> >>>What do exist of GUI's to play blindfold chess. >> >>I think Winboard has a "blindfold" mode that hides the board, but I can't check >>right now. > >The CB GUI has one as well. As to online, that is more complicated, and I don't >know. You might try playing with no board visible, and sending the moves via >text entry only. The server would record the game normally, and anyone else >could watch it of course. > > Albert Chess both Winboard and Fritz have a blindfold mode. My Fritz (ver. 6 and 7) only have a semi blindfold, eg. you can se where the pieces are because they are marked with a litle dot. But as fare as I know none of the can play against another PC except via an Internet Server. This could be good enough for training, but you can't run a tournament relaying on stable internet connection and server which you have no control. Chessmaster can play over a Lan, but in this mode it seems you arent able to select blindfold play here. The closest I got was with ChessPartner, it doesn't have blindfold as an option by default but its easy to create. Ex. --- Blindfold.sinf ---- [Pieceset description] PieceBMP=Abstract.bmp Pieces=0,0,1,1,PPNBRQKpnbrqk Mode=0 BestFit=400,400 Maybe this is good enough for now. It is also easy to create a script to report the moves/result to a tournament server. The only missing is an option to 'spoof' the gamestart. Odd Gunnar
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