Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 09:33:51 04/06/04
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On April 06, 2004 at 12:21:23, Evgeny Shu wrote: >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 :) Thanks for the help! You have actually solved my problem completely! : ) You are right that keyboard entry is pointless if transparent pieces are used. Thanks again, Bob D.
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