File:Chess tile pd.png

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A dark pawn for use in chess board templates.

This is a series of chess pieces. The naming is Image:Chess_tile_ab.png, where a is the first letter of the piece (k for king, n for knight), and b is l for light, d for dark. The pieces all have transparent background color, so you can put them on a chess board of any color.

Space
King
Queen
Rook
Bishop
Pawn
Knight

David Benbennick made this image on June 18, 2005. I used version 1.2 of Piet Tutelaers' TeX chess fonts, from CTAN archive copy at the Wayback Machine, specifically chess.zip[dead link]. I modified chess/mf/chess30.mf, changing "thin" to

thin#:=5/90*d#;

since the lines of the white pieces were too thin when scaled. Then I ran the following commands:

unzip chess.zip
cd chess
export MFINPUTS=$PWD/mf
echo chess30 | tex testfont "\table\bye"; dvips testfont -o chess30.ps
dvips -mode ljfzzz -D 1200 testfont.dvi -o chess30.ps
convert -density 1200 chess30.ps chess30.pnm
pnmcut -left 3649 -top 3857 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > bl.png
pnmcut -left 4471 -top 4470 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > kl.png
pnmcut -left 6937 -top 4470 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > nl.png
pnmcut -left 2005 -top 5083 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > pl.png
pnmcut -left 2827 -top 5083 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > ql.png
pnmcut -left 3649 -top 5083 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > rl.png
pnmcut -left 3649 -top 6309 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > bd.png
pnmcut -left 4471 -top 6922 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > kd.png
pnmcut -left 6937 -top 6922 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > nd.png
pnmcut -left 2005 -top 7535 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > pd.png
pnmcut -left 2827 -top 7535 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > qd.png
pnmcut -left 3649 -top 7535 -width 504 -height 504 chess30.pnm | pnmtopng > rd.png
for name in *.png; do convert -transparent white $name $name.t; done

I used the Gimp to fill the interiors of the pieces as white instead of transparent. Also, there were some errors in the TeX font, which I corrected. (The dark king and queen weren't connected, and the dark bishop had some stray pixels, for example.) Finally, I converted all the images to black and white indexed to save space. (It's extremely annoying that I had to tell Gimp the images were black and white. Bah.)

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See also Template:Chess tiles, Template:Chess tiles brown.

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current22:03, 18 June 2005Thumbnail for version as of 22:03, 18 June 2005504 × 504 (1,002 bytes)Dbenbenn (talk | contribs)504x504 version, made by me with TeX chess font
18:13, 18 June 2005Thumbnail for version as of 18:13, 18 June 200564 × 64 (191 bytes)Dbenbenn (talk | contribs)from xboard, GPL

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