Author: pete
Date: 12:59:04 06/01/00
Hi, although interested in chessprograms I am mainly a person interested in playing chess for myself . And an obvious feature a chessplayer will ask for is a chessboard which looks more or less like the real world one . I am one of those nerds who own many chessprograms but when it is about 3D most of them are just crap ( crap meaning for example you have a fancy board but you can't even see all the pieces on the board as they are hidden behind others ) . In fact nearly all chessprograms I have seen are nearly unusable when you want to use their 3D boards . So far the best ones I knew were Genius 5 and Shredder which I would describe as "barely useable " which meens : " yeah , you _can_ play 3D , cool ; but it really is not too much fun " . The rest really are not worth talking about IMHO ( ie all the Chessbase ones ) . I came to the conclusion that it is a much more difficult thing than I imagined before . I use all of those programs with 2D- boards : nice , good-looking , but not the real thing in fact . Yesterday while hanging around at ICC at last I fiddled around with some BlitzIn2 settings ; and wow : there was it . Look at the wooden boards and piece sets . Those are chessboards and chesspieces . So , it _is_ possible !! Please, you programmers who want to sell : ask chessplayers ; I am quite sure there are more like me ; it is possible to create useable 3D chessboards ; I fiddled a little with the settings and had a just perfect board after a few tries ; a thing I haven't seen in _any_ commercial chessprogram yet ! a rather excited pete
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