Xref: utzoo comp.text:5191 rec.games.chess:3208 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text,rec.games.chess Subject: Re: Chess Diagrams/Fonts Message-ID: Date: 6 Oct 89 21:12:29 GMT References: <1810@bute.tcom.stc.co.uk> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 34 In-reply-to: mark@tcom.stc.co.uk's message of 6 Oct 89 14:49:25 GMT In article <1810@bute.tcom.stc.co.uk> mark@tcom.stc.co.uk (Mark Uniacke ) writes: I am in the process of documenting my final year B.Sc. project for which I am using LATEX. The project is about computer chess, and I need a method of producing chess diagrams, either in my document or pasted in later (preferably the former, using a chess font ??). See Appelt in TUGboat 9.3 and Rubinstein in TUGboat 10.2; also see the chess font which Adobe gave away (via Glenn Reid I think?) a while back. What macros you use depends on the style of notation you are into; I have an implementation of notation like: move e2-24 move c7-c6 move c2-c4 move d7-d5 copying Appelt; and Michael Downes has prepared a much more elaborate system which implements: 26. Nxe6 Qf3 27. d5 Rxe6 28. Rxe6 Qxg3+ 29. Qg2 Qxe1+ 30. Rxe1 Rxe1+ If you have a PostScript printer, I can send you (or anyone else reading this), the macros and font. But BEWARE - a) my macros are rough (I am not a chessite, I only did it for a demo), and b) Downes is still working on it (mail mjd@math.ams.com). Sebastian Rahtz -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)