Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 15:16:37 06/02/00
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On June 01, 2000 at 15:59:04, pete wrote: >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 I don't like the chesspieces from the ICC interface that much if you like them you realy like the 3dpieces from chesspartner But I think so far chessmaster still has the best designed chesspieces Schreder and Genius actualy the same thing are the second best designed pieces (But this is all a matter of taste) I also agree on the point that it is so that the game becomes more clear on a 2d board but this is not always good when you normaly play in a club you can get concentration troubles changing back from 2d to 3d pieces.
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