Special skill of Visually Impaired Persons 7 – King of Chinese Chess

Do you know how do visually impaired persons play Chinese Chess?

Visually impaired persons will use a special design chessboard and chess pieces to play chess. There are two different shapes of chess pieces, included round and wave shape to help them identify oneself and others’ chess. In addition, there are different numbers of dot printed on the chess piece for identification. The chessboard design is also interesting, there are 45 holes on the chessboard, the chess pieces are able to put inside the hole so as to fix the location of the chess pieces, while the hole is the space that the chess can be moved.  

Rooks: 1 dot

Horses: 2 dots

Cannons: 3 dots

Minister / Elephant: 4 dots

Advisers / Guards: 5 dots

General / King: 6 dots

Soldiers / Pawns: no dot

chessboard

chess pieces

HKSB produced braille book with tactile graphics to the visually impaired to learn how to play Chinese Chess