Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 17:51:56 04/24/04
I just finished a special update to Crafty 19.12 SE that allows "move annoucement" under Winboard. (For the uninitiated, 'move announcement" is the computer "speaking" its moves to you as you the computer plays its moves. This feature when combined with Odd Gunnar Malin's new dgt2wb.exe adapter allows a Crafty user to play Crafty through the DGT board to the Winbaord GUI with move annoucement. Although it sounds trivial, the move annoucement is a great feature in this setup as the user do not have to look at the screen at all during his play - you just look at the real 3D DGT chess board as if you were playing in a tournament. Also, this allows the user to set the winboard gui to a very samll size on the desktop so the user can surf the net with most of his desktop space as he plays the computer with the audio move annoucement when the computer plays its move. You will need these downloads http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/download/Dgt2Wb.zip ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/common/winspeak.zip plus the .wav files (the move annoucement files)from either Arena or the DGT websites. a DGT board and my yet-to-released Crafty 19.12 SE update (just email me with the word "Crafty/DGT" for the lastest. Note there is no other change from the earlier release, so unless you want to test the DGT board with Crafty and move annoucnement, there is no sense in getting this. Also, I suggest this is for experienced Winboard && Crafty && DGT board users at the moment as I may not have the time to a lot of hand holding with this. Best, Michael
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