Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:48:42 06/11/04
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On June 11, 2004 at 13:33:03, David Dahlem wrote: >On June 11, 2004 at 13:15:18, John Merlino wrote: > >>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. >> > >Hi John > >The "room" metaphor is the major thing i hate in CM. :-) > >Regards >Dave Well, hopefully the new designers will be able to put all of this into one place without any confusion: Unrated play Rated play Simuls Tournaments Online play (which will be much more advanced with a much larger feature set) Classic Games Opening Book Editor Tutorials Josh Waitzkin Games Quizzes Drills Advice Analysis Blunder Alert Solve for Mate Database All 9 support windows Child-specific content (i.e. the old "Kids Room" stuff) Etc. But, actually, now that I read the interface descriptions more closely, it sounds like there is going to still be some clear separation of features. An "entire section of Chessmaster" is referred to for younger players, as well as an "Academy section" and a "full-featured online chess module". So, I would guess that there will now be four "rooms" (single player, classroom, online and kids) rather than the seven that were there before (skittles, tournament, classroom, library, database, online and kids). That's just a guess. I really have no idea.... Can't wait to see it though. jm
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