Questions tagged [chessboards]
For questions about the boards used for playing chess.
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Engine to solve direct mates on larger boards?
Does anyone know of a problem engine that will solve direct mates on larger boards (e.g. 10x10, 12x12 etc), please?
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Why is the chessboard and its coordinates the way it is?
I would like to know why the coordinates are the way they are. I know it is a made up thing but I'm curious to know if it were setup any other way, would it still work?
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Alternative text for chess images
When posting a picture of a chess board, in a blog post or a website, what should the alt text be?
The text that will be shown in case the image was not shown.
example, html img tag <img src"...
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I have a custom SVG board I want to replace the chess.svg.board with
I made my own custom SVG chess board, and I would like to replace the default chessboard in chess.svg.board with the custom chess board I have. The issue is that I have a ton of paths in the svg. Is ...
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How to determine the value of a chess set? [closed]
How to determine the value of a set? How much does a first-class set usually cost? Does it include a timer or any accessories? Are there famous manufacturers like D&G in clothing? And what are the ...
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Can you identify the manufacturer or specific design of these chess pieces?
I was wondering if anyone could identify the manufacturer of these chess pieces, or possibly the name of its design (beyond just "Staunton". It's correct I think, but want to know more)
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What is a good size chess board for an eight-year-old?
I'd like to buy my nephew a folding wooden chess set for his birthday.
When I played with my own children when they were smaller it was hard for them to go more than a few minutes without fidgeting ...
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I blunder too much in over-the-board chess
I have played 99% of my games online, I have seen and learn almost everything related to chess with the fonts Alpha or Mérida, either through diagrams or games, etc .
However, when I play with an ...
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What is the detailed meaning of Shad Yantra in the Dashpaad board (10x10)?
Shad Yantra (pronounced as Skhad Yantra or Shad Yantra) is the 6 Principles of War according to scholars. What are all these Shadgunya principles and how significant are they in this ancient dashpada ...
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Visualizing the number of pieces attacking each square
Are there any software programs or tools available that can display the number of pieces attacking each square?
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Name for the "folding magnetic chess set" variant?
Does anyone know the name of the chessboard variant where you fold a standard board along the line between the d-file and e-file, to get a double-sided 8x4 board? A piece on top can move past the edge ...
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How can one easily learn chess board coordinates?
I am relatively new to chess, and I wonder, what is a fast (and hopefully easy) way to learn chess board coordinates? This is so when I am watching a video where the commentator says, for example, &...
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Why are there 64 squares on a chessboard?
My question is, why not 36, 49, 81 or some other square number? Do any historical sources point to how and why chess came to be played on 64 squares in particular? Has it always been so?
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Question about a chessboard's material
https://kingchesssets.com/products/black-anigre-wooden-chess-board-24-inches
I found this chess board made of a certain type of wood. What exactly is Black Anigre?
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How many types of pieces or icons are in Dashpaad (10x10 board)?
Dashpaad board (10x10 square blocks) have 100 squares in total. How the pieces fit in this board and what are their names.
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What is the earliest form of Ashtpaad (8×8) board?
An Ashtpaad board (8×8) is a smaller version of an Dashpaad board. This board was used extensively on which other variants were evolved in century.
What did an Ashtpaad board look like?
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Are there any protocols for folding chessboard, where the dividing line should appear?
A folding chessboard will always have a dividing line in between the 2 halves of the unit.
Is there a guideline where exactly the line should appear; Should it be between the armies (seen mostly) or ...
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n by n board editor
I was trying to do some animations using a chessboard and it turns out that I need an n-by-n board editor (for some n less than 16). Are there any such editors available online? I would like to have ...
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Web Interface for training by dragging and dropping pieces
Is there any web chess interface that lets me handle chess pieces as I like?
I mean it will allow me to drag and drop pieces wherever I want them to be on the chessboard and add as many pieces as I ...
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On a glass board, which squares are "white"?
I have a chessboard made of alternating frosted and clear glass pieces. I'm never sure how to orient the board. Which is the official "light color" to put in the lower right corner?
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Can all 64 squares be attacked or defended by the eight pieces?
Can you place the eight (non-pawn) pieces of one color on an otherwise empty chess board, such that every square (including the squares that pieces are on), is attacked / defended?
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Which online chessboard orientation do professional players prefer?
Do professional online players always prefer to play on a chessboard oriented with the Black pieces on the top or with their own pieces on the bottom? Is there a consensus on this, and has there ever ...
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Chessgames.com board theme and pieces
What lichess and chess.com setups are the most similar to the board theme and pieces of chessgames.com? I love their setup and I'm feeling the most comfortable with it.
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Tiniest readable board and pieces design
Has anyone developed a graphic design format for representing boards within a very tiny amount of space? I'm thinking along the lines of how sparklines were developed to allow a line chart to be ...
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What chessboard companies are the most reputable? [closed]
As a follow up to my original question What are the characteristics of a good chess board? I was wondering what companies are the most reputable for chessboard construction. Since I am just a beginner ...
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Is there some online chess board where you can teach a kid how to play?
A family friend wants to teach her grandchild how to play chess. The problem is that, due to the pandemic, they live apart from each other, so she has to do this online. Is there some website where ...
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What are electronic chessboards used for?
I once saw a GM on YouTube using an electronic chessboard, a board that could be plugged into a computer. I liked the idea. What is it used for? When should one consider buying it?
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If a chess board is disturbed, can the game continue?
Let's say I'm playing a game that has technically begun (white has moved) and then the board is disturbed: say a minor earthquake shakes the pieces off the table or something. Clearly no-one has ...
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Wrongly placed chessboard - what happens?
What happens if the chessboard is kept with black square on right hand side instead of white square? I think that the notations will change.
In the new positon, the White king will be positioned on a ...
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Order of pieces in one-dimensional array
To store pieces inside an array of 64 squares (inside a one-dimensional chessboard), I would simply convert squares like:
0 is a8
1 is b8
2 is c8
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63 is h1
This order would be natural for me, ...
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What did Benjamin Franklin mean in this quote?
I was reading thenarticle at http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/benjamin-franklin-on-the-morals-of-chess, and in the last paragraph, Ben Franklin says "Snatch not eagerly at every advantage ...
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What is the correct name for a part of a chessboard: 'square' or 'cell'?
I play shogi (Japanese chess) and there is a word "マス" to call a cell of a square lattice not only used in shogi and chess. As far as I have read the article about chess in Wikipedia, it seems that "...
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Render a chessboard from a PGN file
I’d like to render a 2D chessboard image and save it after the last move as a PNG or JPEG from a given PGN file on a Linux console. How can I do this?
I have a PGN file and I want to get a screenshot ...
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What sort of strategies unfold on this elongated board?
I recently found this incredibly elongated chess board on the /r/gaming subreddit, with this image:
There was a comment thread discussing the potential strategies of playing on this board, with some ...
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Which chess variant has the largest board?
The largest I could find was for Double Chess, with a 16x12 board. Is there a variant with a bigger board? It doesn't have to be a variant in which chess pieces follow their orthodox movement rules.
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Interactive Chess Whiteboard
I am a coach at a small high school. We are starting a chess club. We have Epson BrightLink projectors with the interactive boards. Is there a way we can have a chess board displayed on the whiteboard ...
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What are some good quality magnetic chess sets? [closed]
I'm looking for an attractive (probably all-wood external) magnetic chess set that has reasonably strong magnets and pieces of relatively normal size; I've had enough of the chintzy plastic ones with ...
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Chess set icons
I am looking for an examples of a free chess set icons. It would be nice if the place allow to download them, but this is not really important, as I will still need to redraw them in svg format.
Just ...
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Where can I find Pauls' 1874 article on the n-queens problem?
Where can I find the following article, which concerns the n-queens problem?
E. Pauls, Das Maximalproblem der Damen auf dem Schachbrete, II, Deutsche Schachzeitung. Organ f¨ur das Gesammte ...
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48 pieces on one board
I saw this picture on the Internet.
I am wondering if there is any way to play on this board. Does anyone know what the rules are for this type of chess?
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What does it take to become a professional chess player?
I need to know how start to become a professional chess player so that I can participate in tournaments.
I first tried to find someone who knows how to play, but didn't find anyone.
So I started ...
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What system do DGT boards use?
DGT boards allow it to be connected with a computer, and thus sending it the moves. WHat algorithm does it use to verify the moves pieces?
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Magnetic chess question
I'm a maker and I'm doing my own chess board.
I want the board to be able to sense where are the pieces located, so my idea is to use magnetic sensors and magnetic pieces.
I would like to just ask ...
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How to craft a chess set?
I'm thinking to have fun this summer, trying to craft my own wooden chess set. Has anyone tried doing so? How should I proceed? What materials to buy? what guides to follow?
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What are the characteristics of a good chess board? [closed]
I just read the question: What are some good quality magnetic chess sets? and I was left with a few more general questions:
What is a comfortable board size for home vs travel?
What height of chess ...
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What are some physical chess simulators?
My father likes to play chess but doesn't have any friends who would play with him. I suggested him playing it on tablet device but he doesn't like the touchscreen interface. He needs to touch the ...
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Symmetries in chess
The same games of chess could be played if:
white and black squares were swapped (i.e. the board rotated by 90 degrees)
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king and queen were swapped in the starting position (i.e. white/black ...
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Share a board in realtime to teach chess
A user of our community with solid experience in the game wants to teach others. There is a video broadcast in our site. I need to attach a shareable chessboard to the broadcast. Where a coach can ...
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Real Chess Board which detects the moves we do
We a friend and I play chess we usually don't write down our moves.
It would be great if there would be chess boards which detects our moves.
We could play using a tablet computer, but we prefer to ...
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How to highlight current and previous move of the player in chessboard.js?
I want player 2 to see what last move player 1 has moved. The best way to do this would be to highlight the last move. How is it possible in chessboard.JS?
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