Author: Dennis A. Bourgerie
Date: 20:14:00 06/01/00
Go up one level in this thread
On June 01, 2000 at 20:37:02, Pete Galati wrote: >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 I never use the 3-D boards...it's much easier to follow the game with the 2-D boards. It's better to use the programming time on the chess engine.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.