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External Link: TeX Chess

This is a chess program written in TeX, and icons for chess pieces in METAFONT. You can use it to write books about chess and annotate chess games, as well as games for many variants.

This package contains a set of macros for playing and typesetting books about chess and chess variants. It accepts algebraic notation, FEN, can display board diagrams, and can print moves in sentence format and in chart format. It is fully customizable. The METAFONT files for the chess piece icons is included.


External Link: http://zzo38computer.org/tex/texchess.zip


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By (zzo38) A. Black.
Web page created: 2011-03-23. Web page last updated: 2012-12-15