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Subject: Re: Keep Mr Waitzkin's voice at all costs

Author: Willis Gooch

Date: 10:43:02 05/26/00

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On May 25, 2000 at 19:50:49, Mike S. wrote:

>On May 25, 2000 at 18:19:13, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Hi:
>>If you have some influence in the proceedings of the CM team, I would appreciate
>>very much if you can ask them to replace the current voice of Mr Waitzkin (...)
>
>I think this would be a big mistake! English is a foreign language for me, and I
>too had some difficulties to understand him accoustically at first. But the
>Chessmaster makers have proofen the right feeling by doing it this way I think:
>The whole atmosphere and the personal enthusiasm of Waitzkin is kept and
>transmitted directly to the listener. Much of the attractiveness of this
>inspiring tutorial games would be lost, if some actor or whoever would speak the
>comments. Please don't change that.
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl

I agree.  I suggest providing text, subtitles, to remedy the problem.

Willis



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