cburnett chess piece image set history?

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lotsoblots

Hello all. Does anybody know the history of the ubiquitous cburnett chess piece image set? I can't seem to find any meaningful info about it. When was it created? Who was cburnett? What was the inspiration for the knights? etc.

Thanks!

Mrocznooki

cburnett is a Wikipedia user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cburnett who created "this SVG images in hopes to replace the 44px PNGs in current use" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cburnett/GFDL_images/Chess Here you can find some discussion https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_Chess 

You can click each piece, and then "More details" so see some more info, like change history, eg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chess_ndl45.svg 

lotsoblots

Oh man, I saw an update to this thread and was so excited...looks like the response was deleted, though! O_O