12.31.1 Navigating And Examining The Board

The board can be navigated along the 8 compass directions. Arrow keys move to the appropriate squares on the board. / and \ move down the diagonals. [ and ] move up the respective diagonals.

• Move North: emacspeak-chess-north bound to up.
• Move South: emacspeak-chess-south bound to down.
• Move West: emacspeak-chess-west bound to left.
• Move East: emacspeak-chess-east bound to right.

You can also move along the diagonals:

• Move Northwest: emacspeak-chess-northwest bound to [.
• Move Northeast: emacspeak-chess-northeast bound to ].
• Move Southwest: emacspeak-chess-southwest bound to /.
• Move Southeast: emacspeak-chess-southeast bound to \.

You can also jump to a given board position by:

• Jump: emacspeak-chess-jump bound to j.
• Target of last move: emacspeak-chess-goto-target bound to t.
• Look: emacspeak-chess-speak-that-square bound to l.
• Review current square: ;.
• Review Board: emacspeak-chess-speak-board bound to z. Useful in end-state.
• Locate pieces: emacspeak-chess-speak-piece-squares bound to s. Specify piece as a single char — w speaks all white pieces, l speaks all black pieces, use SAN notation char for a specific piece. Use a to hear entire board, this last is most useful when the game is an end-state.
• Discover who targets a square: emacspeak-chess-speak-who-targets bound to w. Argument piece is similar to the previously listed command.

You can obtain views of the board along the rows and diagonals, as well as a knight’s perspective :

• Viewers: v followed by the directional navigation keys speaks the squares in that direction from the current square. vn speaks the squares from a knight’s perspective, i.e. the squares the Knight would see from the current position. similarly, vk speaks the non-empty squares seen by the King from the current position. v followed by a rank-or-file char speaks that complete rank or file.

12.31.2 Examining Games

Package Chess allows one to browse through a game using , and . — chess-display-move-backward and chess-display-move-forward. Emacspeak speech-enables these commands to speak the move that led to the currently displayed state of the game. Finally, m speaks the current move being displayed.

12.31.3 Emacspeak-Chess Commands

• emacspeak-chess-east
• emacspeak-chess-goto-target
• emacspeak-chess-jump
• emacspeak-chess-look-east
• emacspeak-chess-look-king
• emacspeak-chess-look-knight
• emacspeak-chess-look-north
• emacspeak-chess-look-northeast
• emacspeak-chess-look-northwest
• emacspeak-chess-look-south
• emacspeak-chess-look-southeast
• emacspeak-chess-look-southwest
• emacspeak-chess-look-west
• emacspeak-chess-north
• emacspeak-chess-northeast
• emacspeak-chess-northwest
• emacspeak-chess-south
• emacspeak-chess-southeast
• emacspeak-chess-southwest
• emacspeak-chess-speak-board
• emacspeak-chess-speak-piece-squares
• emacspeak-chess-speak-that-square
• emacspeak-chess-speak-this-move
• emacspeak-chess-speak-this-square
• emacspeak-chess-speak-who-targets
• emacspeak-chess-view-rank-or-file
• emacspeak-chess-west