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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 8000 Vector Board---Where is it?

Author: Marc S. Levine

Date: 08:34:21 12/03/00

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William and John,

Thanks very much for the clarification.

Marc



On December 03, 2000 at 02:04:41, John Merlino wrote:

>On December 03, 2000 at 01:18:30, William Penn wrote:
>
>>On December 03, 2000 at 00:13:08, Marc S. Levine wrote:
>>
>>>The manual for CM 8000 states that there "2D Vector Board that you can resize in
>>>the playing area without going through any special steps in a dialog."
>>>However, when I pull up the "select chess pieces and board" dialog under the
>>>preferences menu, there is no vector board option listed there.  What am I
>>>missing?
>>>
>>>Also, using the regular custom board, it seems there are only 4 possible piece
>>>styles to choose from, none of which I like.  Is there some way to use another
>>>plain 2D piece style with the custom board option?
>>>
>>>thanks...
>>>Marc
>>
>>There is no vector board. They goofed.
>>Increase the size of the custom board to be offered more piece options.
>>WP
>
>To clarify William's answer:
>
>-- The documentation is in error. The vector board was removed from CM8000.
>-- The piece sets that you are offered depend on the size AND orientation of the
>board. If you are using a 2D board, you can only select 2D pieces, etc. But,
>yes, changing the size of the board will also make different piece sets
>available.
>
>jm



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