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Subject: Re: Finally! Powerchess98 in Windows98 :-)

Author: Didzis Cirulis

Date: 18:17:10 07/30/02

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On July 30, 2002 at 20:44:39, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>>3. I missed that voice of Queen :-)
>
>
>Okay - okay, I note the smiley ;)) but nevertheless ..... it has been told that
>people in the US ( and probably also elsewhere - but the PowerChess program was
>developed primarily for the US market) found her voice sexy -thus the choice.
>
>Maybe the notion alone - adding a sexy voice to a program - made me become more
>and more irritated about that voice. "Talk with a normal voice," I would think.
>"this is a chess interface, not a brothel."
>
>Hmmmmm.... I guess I'm a humorless twit.
>
>J.

Well... A (sexy) voice explaining my mistakes can be something good after a
serious game. And one can skip that commentary with a mouse click or turn that
voice off for good. I usually set it to Fast and Brief.

Didzis



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