Chess Font(s)

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Hi Everyone,
I’m new here and was wondering… is there a specific font I should download to submit an article?

I don’t know how to “set up a board” to show the pieces in a certain way. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Mike

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There ares several type 1 chess fonts (and at least one Truetype chess font, as I recall), but a better way to do it is to use of the tools on the Internet to generate chess diagrams as graphics that you can insert into an article. I would suggest if you have an idea for a story for Chess Life that you contact the Publications Director, Dan Lucas, his email is dlucas@uschess.org.

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Thank you Nolan. I took your advice and googled chess diagrams and found one at apronus.com, and that worked well for what I needed.

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I used the Chess Case font when creating a lesson plan for a camp a few years ago and used this to convert a WinBoard PGN/FEN position to that diagram via the clipboard.

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Easier to use:

http://www.chess.com/download/view/chesspad-2

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Until I can get my website finished, my diagram page is now here. This is an orphaned page and links to other parts of the site will not work.

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If you are looking for fonts for Word documents, check out the Alpine fonts - Hastings, Linares, and Zurich at partae.com/fonts/general/general.html

For games and diagrams online, there are several options and this has been discussed in prior threads (try searching the forums). Among them are KnightVision chess at il-chess.org/brocks-blog-144.

ChessBase also provides tools for website publishing and for article writing. Perhaps this can also be done with other databases, such as Hiarcs Explorer.

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Also see viewtopic.php?p=291191#p291191