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Subject: Re: Crafty , Winboard , DGT and Move Annoucement.

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 18:54:22 04/24/04

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On April 24, 2004 at 20:51:56, Mike Byrne wrote:

>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


Perhaps you should get "Odd Gunnar" (is that really his name?) to add the
speaking commands to his adapter.  That seems like a better place for them
anyway.

anthony



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