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Subject: Re: What about move entering?

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 04:57:12 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

 Careful Severi... or soon some Friend to Friedel will pop up and critize you
 for only focusing on the negative and not the positive. And tell you that you
 should just relax a bit and have some fun... :)

 Thanks



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