Author: Pete Galati
Date: 17:37:02 06/01/00
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On June 01, 2000 at 17:16:46, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 01, 2000 at 17:14:41, KarinsDad wrote: > >>On June 01, 2000 at 16:14:54, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Better yet, can the ugly 3-D boards altogether and just use the Winboard design. >>>It's much better than any 3-D board design ever. >>> >>>I prefer the Winboard interface to the real thing, as pieces don't get in the >>>way, and the wrong angle won't cause problems. >>> >>>Besides which, in real life, our head does not sit still as we play. We move it >>>a bit and see the board from different angles. You can't do that with a >>>computer display (without some funky "virtual reality" setup). >> >> >>How about a way to change the board view angle with the mouse (while holding >>down the right mouse button for example)? It wouldn't seem to make much of a >>difference between changing the position of your head and changing the position >>of the mouse? > >Does not matter. I already like Winboard better than the real thing. Even if >it could somehow perfectly mirror my own behavior, I still like a 2-D board >better. Believe it or not, the 3D board that I find the most acceptable it the one that comes with the old Cyrus program. It's easy and fast adjusting the angle of the board, none of the pieces are ever obscured. It's better than the 3D boards provided by Chessbase because the pieces are actually better, and you know instantly what piece you're looking at, and it doesn't cause any eye strain that I get from looking at horrendously bad 3D board displays. But I agree, 2D displays are better. I prefer real tournament sized Chess pieces, but actually Chess _is_ played on a very 2 dimensional plane, and that's basically what a computer's monitor is, so the 3D boards aren't needed, it's something to sell the programs with, but they don't work very well. Pete
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