Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 01:38:50 10/12/03
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On October 11, 2003 at 18:14:32, Alan Grotier wrote: > > I have said this before here. > Playing chess on a computer monitor has distorted the way I see the game on a > real live touchable chess board. > > I now have trouble seeing what's happening on a real board! > > I am thinking I should purchase the GrandMaster auto-sensory and do all my > play on it and then only use the computer of analysis. > > This is serious. Does anyone agree?.......Alan I agree that it is much easier and more comfortable to analyse with a 2D board than with a normal chess board, but at least for me I don't think it is related to computer monitors. Even before I was interested in computer chess I found it easier to analyse diagrammed positions in books and magazines than positions set up on normal chess boards. I think that the problem is that the 3-dimensionality of the chess pieces is very visually distracting. The small "statuettes" tend to obscure each other, making it difficult to determine the position of all the pieces with a quick glance. Flat pieces like those used in xiangqi and shogi would probably be a better idea, but the statuettes have such a long tradition in chess that they are probably hard to replace. Another annoying disadvantage of the statuettes is that they are easily knocked down in blitz games. Tord
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