Re: Need chess pieces

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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
> 
>

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