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#10
Originally Posted by BluesLee View Post
For those who wonder why i selected the above 'ugly' colors: This seems not to be easy as we have only 2^3 colors available for this task (#000000, #ff0000 and so on ...) and i get always screen flickering and noise with other combinations (just drawing an empty board).
I would also prefer something like


i think different shades of grey would be acceptable.

I'm at work right now with no photoshop or any of the picture editing tools, but I think the following will be a lot easier on the eye:
Light gray background(for white squares), black for dark.

White pieces with black outline - so they show on both light and dark squares.
Black pieces with white outline - so they show on both light and dark squares.
 

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