The Chess Variants Club Play and discover 21 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package. This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club. Also when playing mini chess variants like 'chess attack' the square colors do not change when you invert the view (say you are playing the black piece s). This is because a standard 8x8 chess board always has a black square to the players lower left but this is not the case in a 5x6 variant. It would be nice if this could be fixed. The Chess Variants Club. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. Forum: Start a New Discussion Showing 1-1 of 1 active topics 12 Jul 26 @ 10:08pm Hi! (from the developers) Raphael Dias Per page: 15 30 50. Start a New Discussion THREADS.
Here you find, for downloading, a True Type Chess font. True Type isthe font format which with many popular PC and Apple programs, like Wordperfect,Word, and many others, work.
- The file. Use the save option of your browser.
- The file, zipped.
- The file, in sit.hqx-format for Mac-owners.
For more links, and a checkers font, look to my main chessfont index page.
Please note that the file chess1.ttf should have size 14396 bits: ifyour file size is different, something went wrong with downloading. Inthat case, try the chessttf.zip file instead. For unzipping, use an unziputility, like WinZip.
This chess font differs from usual fonts in that the symbols are notnormal symbols from the alphabet or symbols like dots, commas, etc, butthat the symbols are squares from a chessboard - possibly with a pieceon it.
This allows you when using the font to make chess diagrams in a veryeasy way in programs that support True Type fonts: you just must type aset of characters, one for each square of the board, and some extra forgiving the board a nice border.
This is the code that is used:
| When you type a: | You get a: |
|---|---|
| Q | A black queen on a white square |
| q | A white queen on a white square |
| W | A black queen on a black square |
| w | A white queen on a black square |
| R | A black rook on a white square |
| r | A white rook on a white square |
| T | A black rook on a black square |
| t | A white rook on a black square |
| N | A black knight on a white square |
| n | A white knight on a white square |
| M | A black knight on a black square |
| m | A white knight on a black square |
| B | A black bishop on a white square |
| b | A white bishop on a white square |
| V | A black bishop on a black square |
| v | A white bishop on a black square |
| K | A black king on a white square |
| k | A white king on a white square |
| L | A black king on a black square |
| l | A white king on a black square |
| P | A black pawn on a white square |
| p | A white pawn on a white square |
| O | A black pawn on a black square |
| o | A white pawn on a black square |
| / | An empty black square |
| A space | An empty white square |
| 1 | An upper border side |
| 2 | An right border side |
| 3 | An left border side |
| 4 | An lower border side |
| 5 | An upper left corner of the border |
| 6 | An upper right corner of the border |
| 7 | An lower left corner of the border |
| 8 | An lower right corner of the border |
Note that black pieces have upper case symbols, white pieces lower casesymbols. For pieces on a white square, the used symbol is easy to memory:for all but the knight, it is the first character of the name of the piece;for the knight, it is the N. The pieces on a black square all are keys,neighboring the key for the piece on the white square on the keyboard.
For instance, the opening setup of a normal chess game can be made asfollows: use this chess font, and type the following:
5111111116
3RMBWKVNT2
3OPOPOPOP2
3 / / / /2
3/ / / / 2
3 / / / /2
3/ / / / 2
3popopopo2
3tnvqlbmr2
7444444448
Advantages of true type fonts are that they are fully scalable. So,by choosing a proper point size for the text with the font, you can makethe chessboard as small or large as you wish. However, this font doesn'tlook very good if the point size is too small (it might get unreadable)or too large (because the symbols are not very detailed, this may not lookvery nice.)
- The file. Use the save option of your browser.
- The file, zipped.
- The file, in sit.hqx-format for Mac-owners.
To install the font, consult the manual or on-line help of your operatingsystem how to install fonts. Once you have installed it in an OS like Windows3.X or 95, or OS-2, you can use it in most packages that support such fonts:these include programs like Wordperfect 6.X, Word, Wordpad, etc.
Remarks
Note the following:
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- These symbols were not made by someone who is a graphical designer.In fact, much better looking chess fonts are commercially available. However,this font is free to use.
- The board doesn't look too good on a screen (at least, not on mine),but it prints out nicely when using a resolution of 600 x 300 dpi.
- In the future, the font will be extended by checkers pieces, and fantasychess pieces.
- The font is based on some non-standard drawings of chess pieces. Especially,the bishop was highly simplified, and some of you may not like how I madeit. Another similar chess font, based on more orthodox chess characters (probablymodeled after some one-century old chess book) is planned, but this maytake some time.
- Use of the font is free. While the copyright rests with Hans Bodlaender,you are free to use the font. Also, distribution is permitted, and youare permitted to ask a reasonable fee for distribution. Chess Utrecht font(c) 1996 by Hans Bodlaender.
- I named the font Chess Utrecht. Well, what's in a name?
- Feedback is welcome! Send your comments to: Hans Bodlaender.
- All trademarks are owned by their respective owners.
For more links, the Chess Marroquin font (made by Armando HernandezMarroquin) and a checkers font, look to my main chessfont index page.
Newspaper
The Sydney Morning Herald mentioned this font June 2000 in its`Icon' section. They wrote:Hans Bodlaender has done the world a favor and donated this TrueType chessfont to cyberspace. (...) Hans - who's not a desiner - apologies for thequality, but it is actually very nice.Legal information: I got an email with a form that asked me to sign itfor a permission to cache and reproduce this webpage offline. Well,herewith I grant you all such a (non-exclusive) license, free of charge.Written by: Hans Bodlaender. With thanks to Alastair Scott for permittingme to use his nice gif-picture of my font.Thanks to Mark Brooks for sending me the Chess Utrecht font in Mac-format, andto Peter Kooper for informing about the appearance of the font in the SydneyMorning Herald.WWW page created: May 23, 1996.
Lantern Chess
Variant Chess Games
Lantern Chess is a downloadable Java interface for Mac, Windows and Linux. Lantern has an event list, seek graph and tabbed consoles plus personal tell support that make chatting easy. Also a friends/notify and top games to watch windows. Lantern supports engine analysis though a load engine feature. The link to download Stockfish is on the Lantern web site. Many pieces and boards to choose from, circle and arrow support and saves the user's games to a PGN file on the user's computer as well as can open PGN files. The board includes player's country flags and is customizable. The toolbar in Lantern has both customizable user buttons and buttons to play auto pairing pool games like 5-minute. All wild variants are supported as well including crazyhouse, atomic, and bughouse. There are also versions of Lantern for Android and iOS
In addition to Java Lantern computer, there are also mobile versions of Lantern for iOS App Store, Android Play Store, and Amazon App Store. The mobile clients are their own Apps and not identical to the Java App but seek to provide an immersive ICC experience.
Jin
Jin by Alexander Maryanovsky is a full-featured Java application interface for ICC.
Note: In order to run Jin you need a Java Runtime Environment. If you do not already have it installed, you may obtain it from one of the following sources:
- For Windows you will not usually have to install anything in addition to Jin. To use it fully, however, install the latest Java Runtime Environment for Windows. You may also need to install that if Jin doesn't work, or doesn't work properly out of the box
- For Linux
- For FreeBSD
- All modern Macs have Java preinstalled.