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

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 19:20:13 04/24/04

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On April 24, 2004 at 21:54:22, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>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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Is "Anthony Cozzie" really your name ?

;>)  ...  just kidding, but it's really not very polite to question somebody
about their name - he happens to post here all the time and his Norwegian name
is quite common in Norway.



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