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Subject: Re: DGT Board impressions

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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