Chessboard board size

Question

Is it possible to change the size of a \chessboard size. I know it has fixed sizes like tinyboard and so on. But if I just want to scale it down or up by 5%, is that possible?

Can I change the size of the labels (a..h and 1..8) as well? I tried to use fontsize, but I can't see any change in label size. — chessaddict, Aug 14 '12 at 19:42
Yes you can. And how to do is described in the documention in the section about labels. — Ulrike Fischer, Aug 14 '12 at 21:07

Gonzalo Medina · Answer 1 · 2012-08-15T12:20:04.753

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Using chessboard, you can set boardfontsize; labelfontsize will allow changes to the font size for the labels:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xskak,chessboard}
\begin{document}

{\normallineskip=0pt
\setchessboard{boardfontsize=15pt}
\newchessgame
\chessboard}

{\normallineskip=0pt
\setchessboard{boardfontsize=10pt,labelfontsize=6pt}
\newchessgame
\chessboard}

\end{document}

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edited Aug 15 '12 at 12:20

answered Aug 14 '12 at 19:21

Gonzalo Medina

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 14 '12 at 19:15

If you're using skak, you can scale the output (\showboard) using \scalebox{1.05} from graphicx:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
\usepackage{skak}% http://ctan.org/pkg/skak
\begin{document}
\fenboard{r5k1/1b1p1ppp/p7/1p1Q4/2p1r3/PP4Pq/BBP2b1P/R4R1K w - - 0 20}
\noindent\begin{tabular}{c@{\quad}c}
  100\% & 105\% \\[\bigskipamount]
  \showboard & \scalebox{1.05}{\showboard}
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Note that this scales the entire chess board, including the indices (rows/columns).

This approach should also work with texmate since it uses skak to produce the boards.

Chessboard board size

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