How to draw a 9 x 9 chessboard?

Question

Using the package Chessboard, it is possible to make a drawing of a 9 x 9 chessboard, putting pieces, similar to the following drawing?

I tried as follows, but it didn't work.

\documentclass{amsart}

\usepackage{skak,chessboard}

\begin{document}

\newchessgame

\chessboard[pgfstyle=9x9,setwhite={ra1, rb3, rc6, rd2, re4, rf7, rg3, rh5, ri8},showmover=false]

\end{document}

Phelype Oleinik · Answer 1 · 2018-10-17T17:25:33.633

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Section 3 (Setting the contents of the board) of the chessboard documentation says that to change the size of the board you should use the maxfield option. For a 9x9 board, maxfield=i9 does it.

To make the numbering start at zero, there's a zero option, which you can set to true. When you use this option, you don't need the maxfield=i9 anymore because the last place you'll want is h8. To change the bottom labels form alphabetic to arabic numbering you can use labelbottomformat.

\documentclass{amsart}

\usepackage{xskak,chessboard}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{gobble}

\newchessgame

\chessboard[
  % maxfield=i9, % 9x9 board
  zero=true, % numbering starts at zero
  labelbottomformat=\arabic{filelabel}, % bottom labels are numbered with arabic algarisms
  setwhite={ra1, rb3, rc6, rd2, re4, rf7, rg3, rh5, ri8},
  showmover=false
  ]

\end{document}

edited Oct 17 '18 at 17:25

answered Oct 17 '18 at 16:00

Phelype Oleinik

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someone reading my documentation ;-). – Ulrike Fischer Oct 17 '18 at 16:06
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@UlrikeFischer :) – Phelype Oleinik Oct 17 '18 at 16:06
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\newchessgame would be defined it xskak instead of skak is loaded. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 17 '18 at 16:07
Phelype Oleinik and Ulrike Fischer, Thanks for the help. But, there is still a small problem that I can't solve. The columns and rows, see in the drawing, must be numbered from 0 to 9. – Benedito Freire Oct 17 '18 at 17:17
@BeneditoFreire Sorry for that, I didn't see it. Now it's like in the picture :) – Phelype Oleinik Oct 17 '18 at 17:28
Numbering 1 .. 9 ? would be 10 columns. – albert Oct 17 '18 at 17:29
@albert It matches Benedito's picture... Which is numbered 0--8... Anyhow, with those options it should be easy to change to 1--9 removing the zero option, or change to 10x10 adding maxfield=i9. – Phelype Oleinik Oct 17 '18 at 17:34
Sorry, my comment should have been: Numbering 0.. 9? would be 10 columns. – albert Oct 17 '18 at 17:43
@albert So far there's the numbering in Benedito's picture, the one in my previous answer, the one in the current answer, the one in Benedito's comment, the one in your comment... My scramble is brained :D – Phelype Oleinik Oct 17 '18 at 17:46
Your answer is correct just the comment from Benedite wasn't he wants a 9x9 board and later on, with your answer, in a comment, columns 0 to 9. – albert Oct 17 '18 at 18:24
@albert I know, I was joking with the amount of version that came up in this post. But thanks for clarifying :) – Phelype Oleinik Oct 17 '18 at 18:26
@Phelype Oleinik, excuse me, the numbering is 0 to 8, as in the drawing . – Benedito Freire Oct 17 '18 at 18:48
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