WinBoard Gold Pack

WinBoard 4.5.2 for JAWS

Accessible Chess for the sight impaired

This package contains a version of WinBoard that has been patched to improve its accessibility to the sight impaired. It now can work in combination with the N V D A as well as the JAWS screen reader. When it detects N V D A is running on your system, it will use that for its explicit speech output. If not, it will try to use JAWS. No other screen readers are suported yet, but if you are a programmer and can supply us with an example of a "Hello World" program that speaks its message on your favorite screen reader, we can add support for that too. Just post your requests on the WinBoard forum to contact us.

This install of WinBoard 4.5.2-JAWS bundles the set of WinBoard and support programs, such as an adapter for UCI engines, opening book, sample WinBoard and UCI engines. All pre-installed and ready to run, in order to provide an example for how things can be done. It is a simplified version of the WinBoard Gold Pack. As it is intended for the visually impaired, it does not contain any graphics in the form of bitmaps or Chess fonts.

The core-components section includes:

WinBoard 4.5.2-JAWS     A GUI for Chess, to play a game or match between two WinBoard engines
                        (Written by Tim Mann, Alessandro Scotti, HG.Muller and many, many others),
                        adapted for use with the JAWS screen reader
Polyglot 1.4.66hgm      An adapter to allow UCI engines to play under WinBoard (Fabien Letouzy)
                        Version adapted to run without cygwin1.dll by Fonzy Bleumers,
                        and to understand the WB protocol extensions by Michel van den Bergh
default.bin             A small opening book used by Polyglot and WinBoard (Guenther Simon)
Fairy-Max 4.8(R)        Example of a WinBoard engine, which plays many variants (H.G.Muller)
ini files & shortcuts   as examples of how to customie WinBoard for various tasks
A Tutorial              To provide a pedestrian description of how to use what is provided
Language files		For translating WinBoard menus, dialogs and messages into German, Spanish or Italian

Most software is supplied without source code, but it is all open source, and links for downloading the source code are given below.

Tutorial

This package comes with lots of tutorial information on how to use WinBoard, accessible through the links below. In addition there is an elaborate reference manual in the form of a help file, available through the WinBoard Help menu.

Using the Components of this Package

Setting up WinBoard for JAWS

An Introduction to WinBoard

Using WinBoard for JAWS

Overview of accellerator keys

Configuring UCI engines through WinBoard

Making Shortcuts to run WinBoard

More Detailed Information

What is new in WinBoard 4.4.0?

WinBoard Protocol Description

Frequently Asked Questions

WinBoard Help File in WinHelp format

WinBoard Help File in H T M L Help format

Copyright of WinBoard

Copyright of the Software in this Package

GNU Public License

Links for Downloading Source Files and Additional Data

WinBoard Source Code

Polyglot Source Code

PSWBTM Home Page

PSWBTM 2.0 Source Code

A good Source of Chess Fonts