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Subject: Re: Anaglyphic 3D chess sets in Chessmaster 10th edition

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 10:33:03 06/11/04

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On June 11, 2004 at 13:15:18, John Merlino wrote:

>On June 11, 2004 at 08:53:24, Terry Giles wrote:
>
>>I notice that the Chessmaster 10th edition program has 'real' 3D boards,
>>according to the site at ...
>>
>>http://chessmaster10.ubi.com/uk/
>>
>>All the board versions can be used with red/cyan glasses to produce anaglyphic
>>3D, also they have now included rather 'gimmicky' animated chess sets.
>>
>>Terry Giles
>
>Well, it definitely looks like the new development team is really trying to
>create a big improvement to all aspects of the program (interface, online,
>teaching content, etc.).
>
>The only thing that concerns me about some of those screenshots is all of the
>clutter of the other windows. Did I really see a menu that was four levels deep
>and each level had about 10 options?? Hmmmm....
>
>Perhaps they dumped the "room" metaphor and put everything back in one place
>like it was with CM6000 and earlier. The reason we went to the room metaphor was
>because putting everything in one place was just too confusing for many users.
>

Hi John

The "room" metaphor is the major thing i hate in CM. :-)

Regards
Dave

>Well, we'll see. It definitely LOOKS better than any previous version. And at
>least they were smart enough to show ONE screenshot with a 2D board. ;-)
>
>jm



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