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Subject: Re: Anaglyphic 3D chess sets in Chessmaster 10th edition

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:15:18 06/11/04

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On June 11, 2004 at 08:53:24, Terry Giles wrote:

>I notice that the Chessmaster 10th edition program has 'real' 3D boards,
>according to the site at ...
>
>http://chessmaster10.ubi.com/uk/
>
>All the board versions can be used with red/cyan glasses to produce anaglyphic
>3D, also they have now included rather 'gimmicky' animated chess sets.
>
>Terry Giles

Well, it definitely looks like the new development team is really trying to
create a big improvement to all aspects of the program (interface, online,
teaching content, etc.).

The only thing that concerns me about some of those screenshots is all of the
clutter of the other windows. Did I really see a menu that was four levels deep
and each level had about 10 options?? Hmmmm....

Perhaps they dumped the "room" metaphor and put everything back in one place
like it was with CM6000 and earlier. The reason we went to the room metaphor was
because putting everything in one place was just too confusing for many users.

Well, we'll see. It definitely LOOKS better than any previous version. And at
least they were smart enough to show ONE screenshot with a 2D board. ;-)

jm



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