Author: Jorge
Date: 12:26:12 09/16/02
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On September 15, 2002 at 13:34:52, John Merlino wrote: >On September 15, 2002 at 03:44:56, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: > >>Here's what I posted on the Chess Cafe: 433-3 I highly recommend the latest >>version of ChessMaster - It combines almost every imaginable feature one could >>want in a playing program, and includes many tutorials, some of which are >>written by a ChessCafe columnist! It has at least 150 different historic and >>custom made 'personalities', some of which are children players and beginners. >> >>Some of the key features of this program are listed on the chessmaster page, >>www.chessmaster.com. >> >>The Ubi Soft company provides good customer support for this product, and is >>quite responsive to user feedback, for new features in the next versions. >> >>I've never been disappointed in a ChessMaster program, which is updated about >>once a year. The program is advanced enough for masters, yet comprehensive >>enough for complete beginners and children. Also, the price is quite nice for >>such a complete program. Larry S. Tamarkin [9-7-02] >> >>Since posting this comment, I have used some of the Waitzkin tutorials, and >>tried the Rate your chess feature, as well as a few of Larry Evens and John Nunn >>problems. The program is very rich in all these different tutorials, and is >>very challenging for me as a USCF Life Master with a FIDE rating of 2184. >> >>I found it significantly better organized then previous versions of the same >>program. I do reccomend the following improvements for the next version >>though; > >Many thanks for your kind words and your wonderful post. To comment on some of >your suggestions below: > >> >>1: Make the 2d boards resizable using the drag & drop via the right mouse key. >>(In fact, please make all windows resizable via draging). > >The True3D boards are all resizeable, via the mouse-wheel or the PgUp/PgDn keys. >I suggest trying one of the "flat" 3D sets and rotating the board so that it is >"2D". Almost all windows in the program are also resizeable, just like a typical >window in any other Windows program. As far as I know, the only windows that >are not resizeable are the Visual Thinking and the Shortcuts windows. > My Visual Thinking window is resizeable on a 2-d board setting. jorge
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