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Drawing chess positions …

 Saturday, April 19th, 2008

… with LaTeX, dvipng, and Python
This is a response to Thomas Guest’s blog post on the same topic.
I’ve tidied up my script for converting FEN format chess positions to PNG files, and I offer it up here: fen2png.py. It’s a Python script, and it requires LaTeX, the LaTeX skak package, and dvipng.
There’s not much more […]

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Counterfactuals in chess problems

 Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

The problem below is quoted from John Rice’s article “Just for a change” in The British Chess Problem Society’s magazine The Problemist Supplement #90 (September 2007).
Comins Mansfield
4 Pr Chess Amateur 1919

#2 (Mate in 2)

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