Author: pete
Date: 23:36:19 06/13/00
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>> >>>>I truly don't understand the people who like Blitzin - the last time I tried it >>>>out, I thought it was absolutely putrid. I'd never willingly choose to use it >>>>as a GUI! >> >>I haven't tried FICS, so like many I suppose I use ICC because I stumbled on it >>first. But I fail to see what could be wrong with Blitzin. The chessboard looks >>fine, the seek display is fine, and playing a game is quite comfortable. What >>else do I need? Perhaps I need to check out FICS to see all the wonderful >>GUIs?? I can't imagine something that is so much better that Blitzin would >>fairly be called "putrid" by comparison. > >Whoops, I was following up to Adrien, not Pete of course. In any case I looked >at the screenshots for the various interfaces shown at FICS. Fugly!! ;) Didn't >see one for Freak, and could not access the web site given here. Anyway the >default board for Winboard is ugly as sin, for example. Sickly green and yellow >tones for the squares, and the pieces look like what you would find on old DOS >programs. I understand your opinion about the different interfaces very well and follow most of them ( but again , matter of taste ) , but Winboard isn't judged fairly ; the default colours are really bad but it is very useable as an ICS interface ; try it again after editing your winboard.ini with these colours : /whitePieceColor=#ffffff /blackPieceColor=#1d1d1d /lightSquareColor=#ccbda4 /darkSquareColor=#a88964 Feels much better , doesn't it ?
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