Author: D Ridge
Date: 19:29:11 01/23/99
I must have owned 30 or 40 different chess computers over the last 20 years and one thing that the manufacturers consistently do that drives me mad is to completely ignore the popular/standard board colours. I play a lot of tournaments and without question the vast majority of people (in Canada at least) use a green & buff board. I don't think there is an international standard but this seems to be the closest thing to it. The computer manufacturers consistently give us black & silver, black and cream, black & grey, grey and white etc. This is particularly annoying on portables where your tying to see a 1/2" tall black piece on a black square or they make the light coloured pieces the exact same colour as the light squares. Saitek, Novag, Excalibur, and Mephisto!!! Listen up!!!! Your job is to provide the user with a playing surface that gives some contrast to the pieces sitting there and is easy on the eyes. Green & buff works good. And Saitek/Kasparov, you get a special idiot award for that polished surface on the Travel Champion 2100. You can go blind looking at that in certain light conditions. Does anybody out there agree?? Dave
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