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       How To Construct Chess Variant Diagrams?
       By: Asher Hurowitz Date: March 23, 2018, 12:30 pm
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       Greetings all!
       Besides the Musketeer chess tool I've noticed that so many of
       you have various ways of procuring chess diagrams for
       explanations and such. How do you make them?
       Thanks,
       Asher
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       Re: How To Construct Chess Variant Diagrams?
       By: HGMuller Date: March 23, 2018, 1:40 pm
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       Set up the position in WinBoard / XBoard, selecting board
       textures and piece graphics that seem suitable, and then hit
       'Save as Diagram' (or make a screen shot).
       Ebinola seems to make screen shots of a self-made web page
       containing an 'Interactive Diagram', configured to use the
       Alfaerie piece graphics from chessvariants.com. As I mentioned,
       we could arrange it so that such interactive diagrams can be put
       directly into forum postings here. (I.e. without the need to
       prepare anything at home, make a screenshot of it, upload it to
       some free web space, and then link to it as an image in the
       posting.)
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       Re: How To Construct Chess Variant Diagrams?
       By: Martin0 Date: March 23, 2018, 10:47 pm
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       I usually just use Microsoft Paint. Edit the picture manually
       with copy/paste. It doesn't take a lot of time to edit the
       picture to move pieces when your used to it, although I don't
       bother with making sure the pieces are centered in the middle of
       a square and whatnot. It's not ideal to have to do this, but it
       works.
       I'm sure there are better tools out there. A graphic editor
       where the board can be on one layer and the pieces on another is
       one example. And of course using a diagram tool would be even
       better. I just like the simplicity with paint  :-X
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