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Thursday, 22 December 2011 09:02 |
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 A screen reader is a tool to help blind people use a computer by reading out loud information that is in the display. There is a specially adapted version of WinBoard 4.5 available for use with a screen reader. This version can be controlled completely from the keyboard, as blind people cannot use a pointing device like a mouse. It is equipped with a special menu (and accelerator keys to activate the items in it) to have the screen reader recite the position of pieces on the board, the last move made by the opponent, (which is also announced spontaneously), etcetera.
Originally this accessible Chess program could only work with the JAWS screen reader marketed by Freedom Scientific, (see below), hence it was named WinBoard for JAWS. But since September 2011 it also supports the open-source N V D A screen reader, and would automatically choose between the two depending on whether it detected N V D A was running on your system or not.
WinBoard 4.5 for JAWS has all the functionality of WinBoard 4.5.2, and will enable blind people to access and analyze Chess games in P G N files, play Chess on an Internet Chess Server such as FICS, or play against a Chess engine. New compared to version 4.4 is that its menus and dialogs can now be translated into various languages other than English (available are Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch and Russian, although not all of these translations also cover the explicitly spoken text).
WinBoard 4.5 for JAWS can be installed from the WinBoard forum with Fruit 2.1 as optional demo Chess engine, by clicking the link below.
Install WinBoard 4.5 for JAWS (1,527,994 bytes)
Some people have experienced problems downloading the file. If your system complains that the file is incomplete or damaged, check the size of what you downloaded. If necessary, choose "Save" in stead of "Open" from the download dialog initially, so that the file is saved, and then open it later. If its size is not 1,527,994 bytes, the download must have been interrupted, and you should try again.
JAWS
JAWS is a screen reader, which is a tool to help blind people use a computer by reading out loud information that is in the display. It is marketed by Freedom Scientific, and a demo version of JAWS is available from their website.
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011 07:32 |
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The chess club Skakistiki Epikoinonia organises the 7th single rapid at 22 of December 2011 at 17:30.
The cost to participate is set to 10 Euros.
The tournament will take place at the Thrakis 18 street at Neo Iraklio.
The thinking time will be 10 minutes for the whole game with a 10 seconds increment per move starting from the beggining of the game.
Register by : e-mail:
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, telephone +306947774867 (Nikos Komninos) or at www.skaki.gr with the registration form.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 22 December 2011 07:39 |
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Rybka banned by International Games Federation |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 07 July 2011 11:12 |
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International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has found that the dominant computer chess program and engine in the last half of the noughties, Rybka, programmed by Vasik Rajlich, has broken its rules by incorporating elements of older programs, especially Crafty and Fruit without attribution. They have stripped Rybka of World Computer Chess Championship titles earned 2007-10. Rybka has recently been supplanted as the top engine by, amongst others, Houdini. However this issue of using elements of other programs is not limited to Rybka alone. Should new programs have to reinvent the wheel or be able to build on well understood elements of the past? If so, what are these elements? I'm not clear on this. Also in an era of free engines and their heavy use by players there may be commercial implications for the future.
Source: Mark Crowther |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 07 July 2011 11:15 |
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Sergey Shipov on Ukraine’s other chess genius |
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Wednesday, 04 May 2011 08:35 |
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by MISHANP on MAY 3, 2011
Andriy Slyusarchuk’s blindfold victory over Rybka last week earned him his 15 minutes of chess fame, which is not at all bad for someone who took up the game 8 months ago! GM Sergey Shipov has written surely the most eloquent assessment of the ‘trick’, and of the current state of man-versus-machine contests.
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Tuesday, 01 March 2011 08:31 |
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WinBoard 4.5 is the follow-up line of WinBoard 4.4, which ended with version 4.4.4. WinBoard 4.5.3 is a bugfix release, i.e. apart from fixing bugs that were discovered, it is the same as 4.5.2.
WinBoard 4.5 contains many new features compared to version 4.4.x. WinBoard 4.5 can be downloaded as an installer package from here. This installer contains all essential support programs, such as Polyglot and PSWBTM, pre-installed and ready to run. In this respect it is similar to the WinBoard 4.3 Gold Pack. It contains two demo engines, a native WinBoard engine (Fairy-Max 4.8) and a UCI engine (Fruit 2.1). The 4.5.3 installer also contains adapters for running Xiangqi UCI and UCCI engines, and Shogi USI engines, and optional engines for these and other Chess variants.
There also exist various experimental WinBoard versions. The 4.5-TM version is what probably will become the next stable version, which we are preparing for a release as 4.6.0. Compared to 4.5 it contains many enhancements, including a built-in tournament managers, on-the-fly engine loading, and the posibility to search a loaded PGN file for a specific position.
This installer also contains optional sections for using WinBoard as a Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) GUI, and engines for Shogi (Japanese Chess), and for general Chess Variant afficionados. For more information about the Xiangqi capabilities of WinBoard, look here. The variants section provides engines for in total more than 20 widely different Chess Variants (most of them through the Fairy-Max and Pulsar engines), ranging from Chess960 and Gothic Chess to Crazyhouse, Losers and Atomic. For the exact rules of these games, see http://www.chessvariants.org .
The source code for WinBord 4.5.3 and previous versions can be obtained from the GNU website. Use the tar ball that is tagged 4.5.3 (xboard-4.5.3.tar.gz). Most unzippers should understand this format (e.g. 7Zip).
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