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Subject: TRANSPARENT CHESS PIECES!!!!!!!! Great Idea for Blindfold!

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 07:48:46 04/06/04

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On April 06, 2004 at 01:20:50, Luis Smith wrote:

>Hi Bob,
>
>I assume you're using the "Blindall" peice set to play this blind fold game.
>but instead of entering the move this way you can still move the peices.  They
>are not gone just transparent.
>
>BTW you're a brave soul to play Fritz in a blindfold game =O).

Please provide additional information about the blindall piece set.  Is is
already on Fritz?  If not, where to get it?

I had already hit upon the idea of changing the color of the pieces but could
not get around the idea that a piece of the color of half the squares would be
the wrong color for the other half of the squares.

Actually, I am not as brave a soul as you guess!  I had set the time limit at
thirty minutes so Fritz would, in practice, never get to move.  Before Fritz
would move, I would enter the move for "him."  That way, I would be playing both
sides and Fritz's only role would be to detect and prevent illegal moves.

The idea of using "transparent" chess pieces sounds very promising! [Maybe
that's what they did at Amber.]


Bob D.




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