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	qgil	2010-01-31 , 20:37
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Originally Posted by geneven

The main practical use for this for a real chessplayer, in my opinion, is to view games either online or in a chess book. You certainly need a "back" button for that. I see why "pub" mode was used to start, but I think that most people playing in pubs and thus in the same place at the same time should use a real chess set. Spectators are not going to be gathering around your tablet kibitzing, I predict.

Real chessplayers go to pubs where the availability of real chess sets are given (if they don't bring the chess set under the arm themselves). However, the rest of us often meat in places where there is no board available and, in fact, nobody interested following our game.

One device is enough to capture the attention of the two players, just look the (real!) pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/quimgil/4284797879/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quimgil/4269447455/

geneven , I agree that it will take a while until Miniature is useful for advanced players. But if mikhas says that we will get there I won't be the one stopping him.

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