Re: Program to draw chess boards

[Patrick Drechsler <patrick@pdrechsler.de>]

Paolo Pantaleo wrote on 24 Aug 2006 11:45:58 MET:

> [Maybe a little offtopic]
>
> I need to draw some chess boards, starting let's say from the FEN
> description of the board, in an automatic way (something like a
> script, good for automating the drawing of many boards). Is there any
> program that do that?

You could use latex as your backend and one of the following
packages:

,----[ http://tinyurl.com/pmuqc ]
| chess	        Fonts for typesetting chess boards.
| chessfss 	A package to handle chess fonts.
| skak 	        Fonts and macros for typesetting chess games.
| SkakNew 	The skak chess fonts redone in Adobe Type 1.
| TeXmate 	Comprehensive chess annotation in LaTeX.
`----

HTH

Patrick
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