Alone pawn: LaTeX

Question

If you know, how to work with chess in LaTeX, please help!

I want to make an alone pawn to go.

This code works, but shows lots of other pieces:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{chessboard, skak}
\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
        \newgame\setchessboard{markstyle=border,color=blue}
        \only<1>{\mainline{1.a4}}
        \only<2>{\hidemoves{1.a4}}
        \chessboard
    \end{frame}
\end{document}

This code shall work for an alone pawn, but it doesn't moves:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{chessboard, skak}
\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
        \newgame\setchessboard{markstyle=border,color=blue}
        \only<1>{\mainline{1.a4}}
        \only<2>{\hidemoves{1.a4}}
        \chessboard[setpieces = {Pa2}] % Pawn
    \end{frame}
\end{document}

Documentation for the lib

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score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '12 at 23:29

12

I am not sure if something like this is what you are trying to achieve:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{chessboard, skak}
\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
        \newgame\setchessboard{markstyle=border,color=blue}
        \only<1>{\chessboard[setpieces = {Pa2}]}
        \only<2>{\chessboard[setpieces = {Pa4}]}
    \end{frame}
\end{document}

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answered Oct 16 '12 at 23:29

Gonzalo Medina

505,128

No, I want chess lib to make moves for me. :) – iskhakovt Oct 17 '12 at 13:58

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 17 '12 at 07:34

6

You can set a startposition with the \fenboard command. With xskak it is easier, there you can fill the board with pieces. Using only a white piece doesn't make much sense, \mainline will not like it if black can't move. But you could e.g. use the key hideblack to hide the black piece:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{chessboard, xskak}
\begin{document}
\setchessboard{markstyle=border,color=blue}
    \begin{frame}
        \newchessgame[setpieces={Pa2,ph7}]
        \only<1>{Startposition}
        \only<2>{\mainline{1.a4}}
        \only<3>{\hidemoves{1.a4 h5}\mainline{2.a5}}
        \only<4>{\hidemoves{1.a4 h5 2.a5 h4}\mainline{3.a6}}
        \only<5>{\hidemoves{1.a4 h5 2.a5 h4 3.a6 h3}\mainline{4.a7}}
        \only<6>{\hidemoves{1.a4 h5 2.a5 h4 3.a6 h3 4.a7 h2}\mainline{5.a8=Q}}

        \chessboard[hideblack]
    \end{frame}
\end{document}

answered Oct 17 '12 at 07:34

Ulrike Fischer

327,261

And how to add \setchessboard command? It looks better... – iskhakovt Oct 17 '12 at 13:53
What do you mean? There is a \setchessboard command in my code. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 17 '12 at 14:00
Yes. But your variant doesn't look same. – iskhakovt Oct 17 '12 at 14:03
I don't see any difference between the boards in your example and in mine (apart from the fact there are less pieces on my board). I also don't see any reason why they should be a difference. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 17 '12 at 14:26
In your variant a string with information is located above the chessboard. – iskhakovt Oct 17 '12 at 16:01
1

Well yes, I thought it would look better than to the left like in your code. If you don't like remove the empty line before \chessboard. Or use only \hidemoves and no \mainline. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 17 '12 at 16:14
Thanks. And do you know how to enable colours for all these chess? – iskhakovt Oct 17 '12 at 16:16
Yes, I know how to do it. But chessboard has a quite large documentation with a lot of examples so please try first to find a solution yourself. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 17 '12 at 17:46
If I hadn't tried before, I wouldn't ask! – iskhakovt Oct 17 '12 at 17:51

Alone pawn: LaTeX

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