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Subject: Re: What about move entering?

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 02:27:15 09/11/00

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On September 11, 2000 at 03:31:56, Severi Salminen wrote:

>>Ah, you found it. The pieces in the diagram are the "Oldstyle" font which is
>>very close to the ones used in the Dover books at the beginning of the century.
>>Since I grew up with these books (not at the beginning of the century) I always
>>have them on. There are other fonts, like Fritz and USCF (Chess Life style).
>>
>>>
>>>I think this is as good as it gets, at least compared to CB light or Chess
>>>Assistant. I hope they have not made any compromises in functionality because of
>>>visual improvements.
>>>
>>
>>Like taken out a lot of useful functions to make place for cosmetics? I don't
>>think so. Keep checking out chessbase.com for new infos (cb801-cb804 so far
>>published). The next installments is on searching across many databases,
>>directories, hard disks and the Internet.
>
>One question (for now): is it now possible to enter moves manually _without_ any
>annoying hint system (which can't be turned off at least in CB light)? So if I
>simply press on a piece and then instantly release, the piece won't move
>anywhere and no target square is highlighted as being the suggested square.
>If the system can't be turned off, please make a patch. It's not a hard thing to
>program.
>
>Severi


Entering moves in CB8 is real joy. The default is: no highlights, no hints, just
play around to your heart's content.


***  Djordje



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