Article: 1600 of rec.games.chess.misc Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc Path: info!dregis From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (David Regis=) Subject: Re: A terribly important issue Message-ID: Organization: University of Exeter, UK. References: Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 09:01:53 GMT In article phlingon@ozemail.com.au (David Plumpton) writes: >Do you face your knights forwards or sideways? Great thread! I've seen a screen saver which bounces 2 pairs of eyes around the screen; the eyes always look at each other. So you could adjust the knights move by move so they are looking at the opponent's king, or at their opposite numbers i.e. Nb1 points at Ng8 to start with... I'm sure some programmer could do this for a FICS interface... Or in time trouble when you don't have time to keep score you could rotate the knight around in eighths of a complete arc to keep count of moves, like some programmes do to indicate a clock hand... |/-\|/-\| Or you could have your knights look at the queen's side when really you're planning to move them over to the king's-side... Or... From info!dregis Tue Sep 12 14:07:09 BST 1995