Welcome to Spoonbill Software, Albany, Western Australia, the home of free computer games for sighted, vision-impaired and blind players. We pride ourselves on providing personalized service to our clients.
All products on this website are completely FREEWARE. All games are developed to run exclusively on the Windows platform. They will also run on an Apple Macintosh computer provided it is running a Windows emulator.
As of August 2015 we do not have iOS or Android versions to run on your mobile phone or tablet.
Be sure and check out BG Chess Challenge,
amongst others.
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I recently found the United States Blind Chess Association that is all about getting blind/visually impaired persons to play chess at all levels.
They have an active email list through Freelists.org and a web site. The web site is being updated currently so check back often.
US Blind Chess Association web siteHere is the info. To join the mailing list., Send an email to:
usblindchess+subscribe at groups.ioOnce you receive the confirmation email and follow the link and get an email stating you are successfully subscribed, you can write emails to the list with this address:
usblindchess at groups.ioI've gotten back into playing chess. I decided to get a new board. Stay clear of the Future Aids, Braille Super Store, and their supposed tournament quality wooden chess set. It is crap.
If you wanr a truly elegant wooden chess set that has the standard Staunton design pieces, The Chess Baron has two fantastic boards! They are the 10-inch and 13-inch chess sets. Their sets are perfect for tournament or casual play. They have lots of choices for sighted players, but really two main ones for the blind. I will put the link to their main site below.
BTW, the 10-inch board also comes with a set of checkers pieces that are equally well made.
The chess sets come from their store in England and takes about 10-days via free matter for the blind. my first set was shipped August 22nd,, 2022, and arrived at my house in Oregon in the U.S. on August 29th. My 10-inch set was ordered on February 10, 2025 and arrived on February 20th.
Below is the link to their main page followed by links to the 10 and 13 inch sets.
www.chessbaron.comChess-Wise and Shreader Chess are both excellent games for iOS and both have free and paid versions.
* Chess-Wise 3: free or $5.99 for pro, Chess-Wise 3 in the iOS App StoreI had downloaded the install package in 2018 and have played many of the games under Windows 10 and now Windows 11. I don't know if this is the complete 37 game package or just the non-R rated games, but for those having trouble running them under Windows 10-11, give this installer package a try. It has been scanned with Windows Defender and came up clean.
Kitchen'sSink1.0Setup.exeIf you like to play games, the Audio Games archive has a huge collection of games you may not be able to find elsewhere.
They have all of Jim Kitchen's games available to download as one 37 game package, or you can download each individual game. Jim Kitchen was a friend, so I mention his games in particular, but there are tons of other games on the archives site. Jim passed away on August 2nd, 2014, and is greatly missed. He was a blind programmer who had done a lot of fun games for blind computer users. He had written them both in MS-DOS and Windows and he offered them free of charge.
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Last updated: March 5, 2025