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- From: jao@megatest.com (John Oswalt)
- Subject: Re: bridge for the blind
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:37:01 GMT
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- henri@zircon.PHYSICS.ORST.EDU (henri jansen) asks how his blind
- friend can play in regular duplicate games.
-
- He ought to go for it. I have encountered several blind players
- in tournaments. With the co-operation of the other players and
- the director, which I have never seen withheld, the game run
- smoothly.
-
- The blind players each have their own set of boards, which are
- just like normal boards, and are filled with normal cards, except
- that each card is braille embossed.
-
- The blind player sits south. The south player at the next higher
- numbered table, who passes the boards to him, is asked to sort his
- hands after he plays them. When dummy comes down, unless this
- is the blind player, he reads out his hand. Play proceeds normally,
- except that each player says his card out loud as he plays it.
-
- One blind player who is a regular at west coast regionals, keeps
- complete hand records and notes on a nifty little hand braille
- writer he carries.
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-
- John Oswalt jao@megatest.com
-