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Subject: Re: Improvement For Dedicated Portables

Author: D Ridge

Date: 05:09:29 09/08/99

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On September 08, 1999 at 00:02:56, Bradley S., Short wrote:

>I agree completely.   I've turned down more than one purchase because the
>manufacturer put white pieces on white squares and/or black on black.  It also
>wouldn't hurt if they'd establish some kind of a standard for proportion of
>piece size to square.  It really takes something away when the pieces are crowed
>together or spaced too far apart.
>
>Brad

I couldn't agree more, Brad. It's astounding to me that manufacturers
consistently get such a fundamentally important area so completely wrong. The
board and pieces size, shape and colours are critical to the enjoyment of the
machine for the serious user.

I have actually changed the pieces and playing surface on my Karpov Grandmaster
to the tournament standard Green and Buff with the common plastic tournament
set. It wasn't easy but now the machine is near perfect. But that was a
full-size machine which lent itself to such a mod.

Dave



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