Month: January 2014

Here, Donna J. Jodhan returns to England at the end of January 2014 for her first chess theme break with the Braille Chess Association, a week at the Windermere Manor Hotel in the Lake District with her good friend Jackie. She traces how chess came into her life as she lost most of her vision, from a slim Braille booklet and an adapted board to lessons with a chess teacher named Nadia and a course at the Hadley School for the Blind, and she explains how a blind player tells the squares and the pieces apart by touch.