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To Fergus:

It seems that you have an application / need for the extra colors because
you are not just displaying the piece symbols, but are actualy trying to
create a realistic image of the game as it would be played with physical
pieces.

Personally I don't think this is very desirable; I would prefer to play
Shogi without th pentagonal outlines and Xiangqi without the circles.

The Linux version of Winboard, xboard, does have the possibility to have
user-defined graphics called 'pixmaps', and I am not sure there is any
limitation on the number of colors that can be used in them. (They have
the undesirable property, however, that they represent square and piece
together.)

What software do you use to scale the GIF files? I always get excessively
ugly reslults when I do that. Even when my browser scales a gif image of a
Chess poition, separation lines between board squares are randomly
disappearing, etc.