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Subject: Re: Is there a chess program with graphic of bigger boards?

Author: Pekka Karjalainen

Date: 12:36:12 09/20/00

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On September 20, 2000 at 14:04:18, Uri Blass wrote:

>I have not 12*12 board and it is more convenient to see the moves in a 12*12
>board.

  Why not make one out of some cloth or paper?

>
>Is there a commercial or freeware program that support graphics of boards that
>are not 8*8?
>
>I think it should not be hard to do.
>
>I think that it is a good idea if one of the commercial programs will also give
>the users an option to play on boards with different dimensions.
>
>The program does not have to play well in different dimensions than the chess
>dimension but only support doing moves in these boards and have graphic that let
>the user to see easily what is going on(graphic of one of the commercial like
>Fritz,chessmaster or Rebel is enough).
>

  I believe that the Zillions of Games program would help you here.

  URL: http://www.zillions-of-games.com/

  Another idea:  with a spreadsheet you can make a table of 12x12 spaces and
color half of the backgrounds to gray.  Then get a chess piece font from
somewhere or just use letters.  It will take some keypresses to "make a move",
but it does not seem like too bad if you only want to work out some endgames...

>Uri

  Pekka



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