Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 19:07:55 03/22/05
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On March 22, 2005 at 21:22:11, Peter Stayne wrote: >This post is perhaps impatient of me since I already have one on its way to me, >but I was wondering if anyone has experience with using one of these for playing >against chess engines. > >It appears in the CB interface that I could play an engine with 'speak moves' >on, and never have to look at the screen (except before and after the games, of >course). True also speak moves are possible with chessmaster and Winboard Anyone know if that's true? And if so, how well that works in terms of >helping improve OTB play? (which is my goal) Playing on real regulation size board helps when playing OTB. Anybody who play a lot chess on a screen always talks about the adjustment when moving to a real board. But it does not take long to get acclimated to real board if you have been away for a while. >And perhaps how it compares to >playing a dedicated chess computer like Steve B and Mike B keep mentioning :) > Well there is noting like playing Tasc R30 that i have experienced. If the DGT board had lights, that would be close. >Pete Good luck! Michael PS DGT does not have a 64 bit driver yet, but they are working on it. So keep your machne in dual OS mode when installing Win Xp 64.
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