Author: Evgeny Shu
Date: 09:21:23 04/06/04
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On April 06, 2004 at 10:48:46, Bob Durrett wrote: >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. Of course there are already in fritz :) Board design > pieces > Blindall then just move the "pieces" with the mouse I don't understand why use keyboard at all ... If you want use keyboard - visit some online chess club like fics and play there blindfold using style 9 and keyboard to enter moves Legality is checked also by the gui . You also will have more fun then against computer :) or just minimize the board and only look at the text , then you have it all :)
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