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Subject: Re: Fritz 9- no engine improvements

Author: Stan Arts

Date: 08:07:26 09/05/05

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On September 05, 2005 at 10:02:50, A. Cozzie wrote:

>>No one wants a 3d board...it's too distracting.
>
>Well, I personally never use 3d views.  Somehow I can't 'see' the board.
>However I was trained on Blitzin during my formative years, so that is possibly
>an explanation.
>
>Whether 'the world' wants a 3D board remains to be seen.  Personally I think the
>board looks pretty good and I think its a nice feature to have.
>
>anthony



A lot of people using 2D computerboards for internetplay and so on often also
can't "see" a real board.

Personally i find a 3D chessboard on a computer helps to see a real board when
you play on one.
I've no trouble playing on real boards, my 3D-gui, or 2D Gui's, you just have
to vary sometimes..

Nice screenshot/board Vincent and Anthony. (the shading is nice, like the
realistic shadows going over the round edges of the board.)

The computerchesscommunity isn't a very enthousiastic or playfull one..A
chessGui has to be more boring and less artistic then Wordpad, otherwise you
can't be taken serious as chessplayer. Or something like that.
(luckily there is a huge computergamecommunity and casual chessplayer-world
outside of the CCC-forum. )

Stan



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