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Subject: Re: From a revolting peasant

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 07:37:46 05/28/99

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On May 28, 1999 at 04:55:27, Alastair Allan wrote:

>Let's revolt against the lack of bells and whistles on our chess programs.
>What chess program designers surely need, well before Christmas, is a
>"bells and whistles upgrade checklist". Three suggestions:
>
>- selectable male/female voice for scornfully refusing draw offers,
>announcing checkmate, etc. (One ding-dong to CSTal 11, who got this half
>right.)
>- facility to select colour combinations that assist red-green colour blind
>players (No ding-dong to Fritz with his blah database game "medals".)
>- shiny panic stampede-out-of-the-game exit button (One ding-dong to Rebel9,
>but it's not shiny, Mr Schroder, it's not shiny.)


¡Great idea!
To be sure, I am also one of the pesants in revolt againts these super human
chess players that does not even take a look at the screen as much as they are
only huge brains in a bottle and have robot servants to do the moves in the
board.
I like voice, noise. I love to begin Fritz lessoning the sound of the pieces
being putted in the board. Silly, but tune me for what comes. Like to be in a
club. If only fritz smoke...
A sugestion: any kind of human voice should be a voice kind enough to speak
understable english. It seems anglo saxon people believe all world understand
his special way to talk this language. No sir, we don't understand. The guy that
speak in Fritz maybe is understable for a pedantic guy and gay of Oxford, but no
so much for a chilean, argentinian o Hindostani customer.
Fernando, the peasant



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