Using chessboard package, how to render "black" squares in solid gray?

Question

In latex chessboard package, by default, black squares are rendered with hatch patten. I want them in solid gray. My several attempts failed, chessboard.pdf is not helpful here. The programming model is not clear, so I gave up. Need help. Thanks in advance.

\documentclass[preview]{standalone}
\usepackage[LSB,LSBC3,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[skaknew]{skak,chessboard}
\begin{document}
\setchessboard{showmover=false}
\chessboard
\end{document}

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '19 at 15:42

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\documentclass[preview]{standalone}
\usepackage[LSB,LSBC4,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[skaknew]{skak,chessboard}
\begin{document}
    \setboardfontcolors{
        blackfieldmask=gray!30}
\setchessboard{boardfontencoding=LSBC4,setfontcolors,showmover=false}
\chessboard
\end{document}

Code with light gray. See setboardfontcolors.

answered Sep 10 '19 at 15:42

Sango

887

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Thanks! Difficult getting through the documentation. +1 – DJP Sep 10 '19 at 15:58
1

Life is cool because of you guys at StackExchange, a million thanks. – userOne Sep 11 '19 at 07:29
I will accept this as answer. It gives control over color. Also thanks to DJP for giving a quick solution. – userOne Sep 11 '19 at 07:43

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '19 at 15:21

5

The documentation on CTAN is here. I found something like what you wanted on page 34. I modified your code using boardfontencoding=LSBC4 to get the result below.

\documentclass[preview]{standalone}
\usepackage[LSB,LSBC4,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[skaknew]{skak,chessboard}
\begin{document}
\setchessboard{boardfontencoding=LSBC4,setfontcolors,showmover=false}
\chessboard
\end{document}

answered Sep 10 '19 at 15:21

DJP

12,451

The solution works, but can I set a lighter shade of gray? Say gray!30. – userOne Sep 10 '19 at 15:27
I tested color properties from the documentation and ran into transparency issues, and gave up. Strange, a font change is producing a different color. – userOne Sep 10 '19 at 15:38
Sango found the fix to modify the gray color and posted it in their answer. – DJP Sep 10 '19 at 16:07

Using chessboard package, how to render "black" squares in solid gray?

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