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Does anyone know the easiest way to get hold of one of these for lightning chess?

It may be in this digital age there is an app or something which beeps every 10 seconds? I'd be keen to hear from anyone who has solved this.

Thanks,

Ray

Ray Sayers wrote:Does anyone know the easiest way to get hold of one of these for lightning chess?

It may be in this digital age there is an app or something which beeps every 10 seconds? I'd be keen to hear from anyone who has solved this.

I believe there is, but don't know the details off hand. Not terribly helpful, I know, but maybe someone will be moved to Google it for you? I found the following:

http://appfinder.lisisoft.com/ipad-ipho ... evice=ipad

They seem to be called "countdown timers".

This may be what you want:

http://appfinder.lisisoft.com/app/bang! ... tdown.html

Though maybe not...

Some DGT clocks have a buzzer function.

A team-mate of mine wrote a little program that sits on the desktop and seemed to work quite well (I'm sure others have done similar). I'm happy to ask him if he's still got it and happy to share.

Buy an old TV.
Tune into 'Mock the Week.'
Everytime one of the panelist says a four lettered sweary word.
(approx every 10 secs) The players must move.

I have discs with buzzes at intervals of 10, 9 and 8 secs, happy to pass on if needed.

I've used Powerpoint on a two page loop when asked to run such an event and then discovering the intended tape was missing.

I know this doesn't answer your question but does anyone else remember when Alex Niedzwiedzki made his own tape with him saying " White to mouf, Black to mouf " every ten seconds. They were the days !

barry sandercock wrote:" White to mouf, Black to mouf " every ten seconds.

Vite surely.

With the necessary programming skills, knocking something up to emulate that shouldn't be too difficult.

Ray Sayers wrote:
It may be in this digital age there is an app or something which beeps every 10 seconds?

It would take about 4 lines of code to write one!

I would like to use PowerPoint to run this as a loop, however not continuously but for a set time, say 10 minutes at 10 seconds then 5 minutes at 5 seconds, does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks

Barry Sandercock wrote:I know this doesn't answer your question but does anyone else remember when Alex Niedzwiedzki made his own tape with him saying " White to mouf, Black to mouf " every ten seconds. They were the days !

I remember it well, Barry. I enquired after the tape loop but was told that it finally disintegrated some years ago. A great pity: it would have been great if we still had this precious bit of 1960s chess memorabilia. There was a time when pretty well everyone in Bucks and Berkshire chess circles could do a passable imitation of Alex's Polish accent, having heard the tape loop so many times. His pronunciation of 'Black' was more 'Bleck', with the letter 'L' emphasised in a Slavonic way.

I found this link but haven't tried it out yet: http://www.logbook.freeserve.co.uk/

Thanks for the help, once pointed in the right direction and with the help of
http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/

It turned out to be a simple thing to do in PowerPoint