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Subject: Re: Which are good square colours in GUI of a chess program?

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 19:09:16 01/21/00

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On January 21, 2000 at 09:37:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 20, 2000 at 09:17:16, Jari Huikari wrote:
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>>I have written my own GUI for Nero. The background colour is black
>>and chessboard's square colours have some alternatives. E.g. brown/yellow
>>and darkgray/lightgray. Which other colours would be nice?
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>My personal favorite is xboard/winboard.  Medium green and cream.  Looks just
>like a standard roll-up chess board that is used in most tournaments...

I'm partial to the wood design of Tal, the program from CA. Nice board colors.

                                        Albert Silver
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>>The latest (Jan. 18. 2000) Nero can be downloaded from
>>http://www.math.jyu.fi/~huikari/NERO5.ZIP
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>>I hope to be able to start writing a WB-version soon. (I could write also
>>Auto232 version if there are people interested to have such.)
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>>					Jari



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