Xref: utzoo comp.lang.postscript:489 rec.games.chess:1047 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!eichin From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,rec.games.chess Subject: Re: Postscript chess board and pieces wanted (Please :-) Message-ID: <4909@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 27 Apr 88 08:46:24 GMT References: <212@csvaxa.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Organization: Minsky's Institute of Tiddlywinks Lines: 33 cc: eichin@athena.mit.edu In article <212@csvaxa.UUCP> E.Wilkinson@massey.ac.nz writes: >Does anyone have any Postscript chess pieces, both upside-down & the >right way up? What about a chess board with border? Many thanks in >advance to any replies. I have a chess printing file, derived from (1) the Cookbook example program `Making A User Defined Font' and (2) the bitmap chess characters from the GNUchess xchess program. I constructed it in about 3 hours for the MIT student newspaper, The Tech; the style of print is much like a normal newspaper chess column (all pieces rightsideup, grey/white squares.) It is a header file; to draw a chessboard, include something like 36 START (RNBQKBNR) (PPPPPPPP) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) (pppppppp) (rnbqkbnr) showboard to draw a starting chessboard. It is nearly 40K long, but the bitmaps look fairly good from 1/4 inch to 1 inch in size. If you want it, email me (if you can anonymous ftp, tell me that and I'll put it somewhere); if I get more than 15 requests in a week, I'll post it. I don't read comp.lang.postscript often (thesis time!) so I will not see posted requests. Mark Eichin SIPB Member & Project Athena ``Watchmaker'' [You should be able to find athena.mit.edu; if not, try via bloom-beacon.]