1. Need chess pieces
I am writing a simple network chess game
to test my CJBN network library.
I need some pieces for it that must
meet the following reqirements:
*It must have all the basic chess pieces
(King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook, and Pawn)
*They must be bitmaps that can be read by
the loadDib() function in win32dib.
*There must be 2 different colors(doesn't
matter exactly what color).
*They must have a single background color
that will be treated as transparent.
*They should be as close to 64*64 as possible.
*They must all be the same size and squares.
*The actual image should be close to the edge
of the bitmap, touching if possible.
*You can draw them yourself if you're a good
artist, or
*they can be downloaded, as long as the origanal
author permits it(the program will be
non-commercial(free))
2. Re: Need chess pieces
On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 19:15 -0700, CoJaBo wrote:
>
>
> posted by: CoJaBo <cojabo at suscom.net>
>
> I am writing a simple network chess game
> to test my CJBN network library.
> I need some pieces
Could you try chess fonts??
http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/chess.html
Regards,
--
h4x3r <h4x3r at bellsouth.net>
3. Re: Need chess pieces
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:15:40 -0700
CoJaBo <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
>
>
> posted by: CoJaBo <cojabo at suscom.net>
>
> I am writing a simple network chess game
> to test my CJBN network library.
> I need some pieces for it that must
> meet the following reqirements:
> *It must have all the basic chess pieces
> (King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook, and Pawn)
> *They must be bitmaps that can be read by
> the loadDib() function in win32dib.
> *There must be 2 different colors(doesn't
> matter exactly what color).
> *They must have a single background color
> that will be treated as transparent.
> *They should be as close to 64*64 as possible.
> *They must all be the same size and squares.
> *The actual image should be close to the edge
> of the bitmap, touching if possible.
> *You can draw them yourself if you're a good
> artist, or
> *they can be downloaded, as long as the origanal
> author permits it(the program will be=20
> non-commercial(free))
There's a chess program in the archive that has all the pieces in separate =
bitmap files ( http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&wi=
n=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=chess ). Try contacting the author (Nor=
mand Blais) and ask for his permission to use it yourself. They don't have =
the same background but changing it is just openinig paint and use the fill=
function ;)
Best Regards,
Guillermo Bonveh=ED
4. Re: Need chess pieces
h4x3r wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 19:15 -0700, CoJaBo wrote:
> >
> >
> > posted by: CoJaBo <cojabo at suscom.net>
> >
> > I am writing a simple network chess game
> > to test my CJBN network library.
> > I need some pieces
>
> Could you try chess fonts??
>
> <a
> href="http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/chess.html">http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/chess.html</a>
>
That might work if I could convert them into bitmaps,
but I couldn't find any useful links on that page...
The sites all were in another language, wouldn't
load, weren't free(or even a reasonable price),
or returned "errore 404: pagina non trovata".
> Regards,
> --
> h4x3r <h4x3r at bellsouth.net>
>
>
5. Re: Need chess pieces
Guillermo Bonvehi wrote:
>
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:15:40 -0700
> CoJaBo <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > posted by: CoJaBo <cojabo at suscom.net>
> >
> > I am writing a simple network chess game
> > to test my CJBN network library.
> > I need some pieces for it that must
> > meet the following reqirements:
> > *It must have all the basic chess pieces
> > (King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook, and Pawn)
> > *They must be bitmaps that can be read by
> > the loadDib() function in win32dib.
> > *There must be 2 different colors(doesn't
> > matter exactly what color).
> > *They must have a single background color
> > that will be treated as transparent.
> > *They should be as close to 64*64 as possible.
> > *They must all be the same size and squares.
> > *The actual image should be close to the edge
> > of the bitmap, touching if possible.
> > *You can draw them yourself if you're a good
> > artist, or
> > *they can be downloaded, as long as the origanal
> > author permits it(the program will be=20
> > non-commercial(free))
>
> There's a chess program in the archive that has all the pieces in separate =
> bitmap files ( <a
> href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&wi=">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&wi=</a>
> n=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=chess ). Try contacting the author (Nor=
> mand Blais) and ask for his permission to use it yourself. They don't have =
> the same background but changing it is just openinig paint and use the fill=
> function ;)
Those would work, but I'd like some in color.
If none better are found these will work fine
(as long as the author's email address is still
valid...).
>
> Best Regards,
> Guillermo Bonveh=ED
>
>
6. Re: Need chess pieces
Try these from chessvariants.org:
http://www.chessvariants.org/graphics.dir/alfaerie.zip
Bitmaps of all the standard pieces in multiple colors as well as many
non-standard pieces. They are public domain.
-- Mike
7. Re: Need chess pieces
Mike Nelson wrote:
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> Try these from chessvariants.org:
>
> <a
> href="http://www.chessvariants.org/graphics.dir/alfaerie.zip">http://www.chessvariants.org/graphics.dir/alfaerie.zip</a>
>
>
> Bitmaps of all the standard pieces in multiple colors as well as many
> non-standard pieces. They are public domain.
Thanks, those will work fine.
>
> -- Mike
>
>
--The REAL CoJaBo!
