Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 00:12:48 03/23/05
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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). Anyone know if that's true? And if so, how well that works in terms of >helping improve OTB play? (which is my goal) And perhaps how it compares to >playing a dedicated chess computer like Steve B and Mike B keep mentioning :) > >Pete It shouldn't mattter what you are looking at when playing, Shirov and Ivanchuk are looking at the wall or ceiling while playing :) But if it should matter, you are on the safe side when using the dgt-board. For the speakmove, it's a feature of the program and many of them have it. You can turn on speaking feature in the new driver for the board, but for me the the wording sound strange, e2 knigt e4 instead of knight e2 e4 or even better knight e4. I use spoken annocement feature of a program while playing blindfold, but while playing with the board I prefer to have to move annocement on the clock as text instead. It will beep quiet and show the move unto you have made it on the board, so you don't miss. This is only possible with the newest (XL) clock from DGT. I use the board most while playing in tournaments on the net (ICC) with longer timecontrol (45+5 and 60+0) and in simul agains GM's. Odd Gunnar
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