Bryan S. wrote: > I'm delighted with Eeyore's boards, but they do have practical > difficulties. It's difficult to see where the lines of attack > are, especially along the diagonals. This is largely due to > the way angles change at the borders between sections, and how > the diagonals may change colors at the borders, but I suspect > the way individual squares' colors shift also is a problem. > (Eeyore, if you're reading this, have you ever tried board > pieces with monochrome squares? Is it easier to follow that way?) With fine enough dithering, the current boards *are* monochrome. =^> ...but seriously, yes, I did try to make versions with just black and white squares. It's horrible. You wind up with black squares against black squares, and some diagonals have squares of the opposite color in the middle. The gradient squares were carefully designed and placed to provide smooth transitions between black and white as often as possible. Since the boards were originally designed for three players, it works best there. After ten years (!) of playing on these boards, I don't have any problem seeing the diagonal attack lines. =^> -- Elliott C. Evans eeyore@xxxxxxxx