A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror.
Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: chessboard Author's name: Ulrike Fischer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chessboard Summary description: A package to print chessboards. License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package offers commands to print chessboards. It can print partial boards, hide pieces and fields, color the boards and put various marks on the board.
It has a lot of options to place pieces on the board. Using exotic pieces e.g. for fairy chess is possible.
It can be used together with the skak package which you can find at http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex-skak/.
REQUIREMENTS chessboard uses some primitives of eTeX. It needs a recent version of chessfss and xkeyval. It also needs the packages pgfcore and pgfbaseshapes (from the pgf bundle), and pst-node (from pstricks). ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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