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About the chessboard package used for drawing chess boards. For general questions about typesetting chess-related material, please use the {chess} tag.

chessboard 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. The doc­u­men­ta­tion in­cludes an ex­am­ple of an an­i­mated chess­board, for those whose PDF viewer can dis­play an­i­ma­tions.

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Chessboard board size

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?
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How to use chessboard package?

I'm using TexLive under Windows 8 & TexMaker, when I tried to run this code snippet,…
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Uncheckered chess board using the chessboard package

I have a 12 by 12 chessboard which I have created using the following code with the chessboard package: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{chessboard} \begin{document} \setchessboard{ showmover = false, maxfield = l12, …
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How I draw the tree of possibility?

I can do the following drawings of…
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Custom chessboard axis labels

I would like to use the chessboard package to create a chess board, but with customized axis labels. The Latex below creates a board where the files are labelled with numbers instead of letters. I would like to label the files and ranks in…
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How to decrease the font size to fit in boxes from the Board?

I want to draw tho following Board\ But I can't decrease the font size so that the number can fit inside…
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How to draw the Queen's moves on a chessboard?

I saw on the Internet a lecture with the title 8 QUEENS PROBLEM USING BACK TRACKING. There is a drawing of the Board following. How to make this using the Latex? (I tried using the package Chessboard, but the result is very…
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How to number the row and columns of the chessboard differently?

I learned in the question How to draw a 9 x 9 chessboard?, answered by Phelype Oleinik, how to distinguish with Arabic numerals the columns and lines of the chessboard. Is it possible to number the rows and columns of the board differently, as in…
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Is Texmate obsolete?

What is the status of the texmate package? Is it considered obsolete? Looking for samples I find only 2; one is the Manual, the other a 2-page example also by the author, Frederico Garcia. Neither compiles without error on a recent Miktex…
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How to draw a chessboard with numbers?

How to draw a chessboard filled with numbers, as the following figure? I've tried using the chessboard package but to no success.
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How to eliminate the square?

To illustrate the movement of a horse on a chessboard, I used the following commands. How to eliminate the square that appears to the right of the figure?
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Chess Board Color changes

Can someone help me recreate this chess board style: I got this: …
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How can I draw a chessboard with two corners removed?

I am trying to draw a chessboard like this I used this question To draw a chessboard and I got this board. How can I get the board in the first image?
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Drawing checkers/draughts boards and positions in LaTeX

Is there a good way of drawing draughts/checkers boards with LaTeX? I know that there are several excellent chess-related packages by Ulrike Fischer but I could not see a way of drawing a checkers position without resorting to using the chess pawn…
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Using the package Chessboard, as mark with the + sign a square on a chessboard?

I can mark a square with X or with a circle, but I still can't to mark with the + sign. \usepackage{chessboard} \begin{document} \begin{center} \newchessgame \chessboard[maxfield=c4,…
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