Fun on a sunny but boring sunday: this is my working garage.
Those 3D visuals work very well, I use them often when occaisonally playing against the PC. As one can see, the board perspective is quite comparable, so is the size of squares and pieces (the real board has 5cm squares and pieces in tournament height, and they are heavy). If I run a match, I would have notation window on and off via keyboard command if need be. In engine-off mode like currently I can click and hold and move pieces like on a real board via mouse. I do not like playing via 2D diagrams - the big contra for me to play on mobile devices. Call me exccentric. I am.
On the right rim you can see my ally, aide and little spy who helps me out by whispering me moves. I never play without some nuts in my pockets.
When i played CC tournaments, I even made notes on paper for ideas and v ariations, becasue over the weeks and mmotnhs and wiht playing upt to a dozen matches simulatenously one could lose track of things. By the end of the match I often had 20-30 pages per match.
