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Just curious what stronger players use. There are some strange options to choose from.
I use "Book/High contrast/Large

You?

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Cowboy From Hell

American West

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Default, brushed steel

Boston Lad

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Book, High Contrast, Standard (also switched from timeforchess to redhotpawn for what seems to be a brighter screen).

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Alpha, wood tile and standard.

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Book/High contrast/Large

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default settings - often browse games without logging on.

Chess Librarian

The Stacks

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Originally posted by gorookyourself
Just curious what stronger players use. There are some strange options to choose from.
I use "Book/High contrast/Large

You?

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Believe it or not, I almost started a thread just like this after a PM-and-in-game conversation Grampy Bobby and I had where we were talking about board settings, and I found it interesting to the point where I was curious what others use.

I use book/blue day/ large after a lengthy experimentation phase because I have some issues, and I use the "immortal game" interface. By trial and error, I think I see blue contrast better than the others.

I don't think there is a "stronger player/weaker player" connection, but a more informed person may enlighten me on the subject. I chose mine because I have some very minor but occasionally annoying vision issues, and the changes made a big difference for me.

The geek part of me is intrigued by the idea of how this contributes to the difference between OTB and CC- both players have the "essence" of the chess position on the site, but there is a good chance that they see very different boards!

Now if I can just switch boards in my dart league...

Paul

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book woodtile large

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Originally posted by Paul Leggett
Believe it or not, I almost started a thread just like this after a PM-and-in-game conversation Grampy Bobby and I had where we were talking about board settings, and I found it interesting to the point where I was curious what others use.

I use book/blue day/ large after a lengthy experimentation phase because I have some issues, and I use the "immo ...[text shortened]... ee very different boards!

Now if I can just switch boards in my dart league...

Paul
"blue day" burns my eyes.

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I am easily confused by change, so always use default.

I am deadly serious

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Syver Yurt TC

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TFC / newspaper / high contrast / standard

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Auschwitz

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The immortal game/book/standard/storm clouds

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I tried the immortal game and found it hard on the eyes. How many interfaces are there?

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Immortal/book/high contrast/standard.

Those are the default settings?I don't recall tampering with it.

toet.

anybody seen my

underpants??

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rhp/Alpha/Storm clouds/Large