uscftigerprowl wrote:
Yea, but the hard part is getting the guide dog to make your moves.
Found that quite funny. Hope you keep up the humour and not be afraid of the politically correct brigade.
Is it possible for a person, who was born blind, to learn chess/board games?
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blindness from birth or acquired shouldnt make any difference. they can "see" the pieces by touching and feeling them, there's no need for previous memory. color is not important either because blind specific chess sets have pins on the top. (look at the dark pieces in the following photo)
of course their level of play will depend on the individual ability, interest, etc.
Of course there are people it is possible
Darpan Inani is a prolific blind Indian chess player from Vadodara. He is currently the highest-rated visually impaired chess player in India with an ELO rating of 2135 as of January 2020.[1] He was a bronze medalist at the 2013 World Junior Championship in Belgrade. He is the youngest player to have ever won the National blind chess championships. He is the only Indian visually impaired chess player to have ever won international first prize at the Creon Open chess tournament in France in August 2018. This was a historic moment for Indian chess when a visually impaired player won first prize in international open sighted tournament in his rating category. He is honoured with the Yuva Ratna award by All India Marwari Yuva Manch in April 2018 in Siliguri, West Bengal. He is the recipient of the Navratna Award - 2018 awarded by Yuma Television. He has featured in a commercial for HDFC Life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darpan_Inani
There is also this guy, who has written a book about it, if anyone is still interested. https://www.englishchess.org.uk/blind-faith/
Oui 
possible & might turn to be a Master
... especially if player calls back some tactics from previous lives
... actually Chess is a pure game of the reality of reincarnation...
for those who still don't believe it , just ask ur Kings on the board about their Victories ... or listen carefully to the stories of how Pawns turned into Queens... in some cycles
Good Times all...
May 16, 2023
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#31
Not only can one play, one can make chess boards. Google Blind Guy Woodworking.
May 16, 2023
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#32
Titled players are able to play the entire game blindfolded by visualizing the board and pieces in their head. It is possible.
I played a U.S. blind champion in the U.S. Open. He was very good. The only way that I could beat him was to make the position so complicated that he could not keep track of the tactics in his head.
May 16, 2023
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#35
No, blind people can't learn chess well at all. You can play chess blindfolded... Lots of GMs do, but if you're born that way, you can't learn the pattern recognition the same way.
May 16, 2023
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#36
The short answer is yes, there are Braille chess boards, there is the U.S.C.F. Blind Chess Championship, and a few years ago at the Texas State Scholastic Chess Championships one of the kids who finished in the top ten (in the primary K-3 section) was blind and also played with a Braille Board.
One other exception for blind players, is that they are allowed to use a tape recorder to record the moves of the game instead of written notation. both of us would speak the moves into the recorder.
May 16, 2023
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#38
Absolutely!! In fact, one of my chess friends is the U.S. Blind Chess Champion (there's a championship every year) and through her inspiration, I have been teaching chess to blind students for the past year along with my sister
A blind human would easily be able to learn chess with the right supplies, they just need to be able to know which peices are which, with special sets and know where to place the peices and where your oponnet placed their peice.