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Fergus:
| How does that work? Does WinBoard allow the use of graphic images for 
| pieces? Game Courier allows the use of GIF images for pieces. Does it 
| allow any customization of the board's appearance? Game Courier allows
| GIF, PNG, and JPG images for boards, and it can draw multiple kinds of 
| boards. If WinBoard can use images for boards and pieces, then I would 
| be happy to contribute some.

WinBoard can use arbitrary bitmap files for the square coloring (through
options /liteBackTextureFile=... and /darkBackTextureFile=... on the
command-line or in the winbord.ini file. For some examples, see:
http://usuarios.lycos.es/alexwbtm/Test/ or
http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?t=49439 (bottom).

The pieces cn be user-defined through the option /renderPiecesWithFont=...
and /fontPieceToCharTable='...', which can be used to select any
pictorial true-type font for piece rendering, and define the mapping of
pieces to font symbols. A good example of this would be the Superchess
font obtainable from http://www.superchess.nl.