A google search for "chess diagram creator" will unearth several alternatives like this one.
https://www.apronus.com/chess/diagram/editor/
Creating "Chessbook" Position Images
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Thank you for the responses!
"Chess Diagram Creator" appears to provide almost exactly what I want. My only problem is with the black chess pieces: they have such broad white stripes on them (especially the rooks), that when one of the black pieces is sitting by itself, I have a hard time deciding if it's a white piece or a black piece I'm looking at. I like the shape of the pieces and the sharpness of the pieces, but I wish I could edit out or gray-out those broad white stripes. (I suppose I could edit out all the bold white stripes by hand, but that's very labor intensive.)
I just tried Fritz (thank you for the recommendation) and it creates board positions just fine, but it seems to only create full-color, high-resolution pieces: I just want a no-frills chess book-like format.
And I wasn't able to locate Extreme Chess on the internet. Do you have a site?
(I've also tried Scid and ChessPad2 and Chess.com's chess-playing app, but none of them create the simple chess-book format that I'm seeking.)
Pick up any chess book published in the last century, and they're riddled with practically the same graphics: black-and-white chessboard positions. You know what I mean: the dark squares are indicated by diagonal crosshatching. The glyphs for the pieces are--with minor variations--the standard glyphs that everyone uses.
I'm wondering what's the easiest way to create these black-and-what images for use in my own self-study. Is there a program that lets you plop pieces on a board, hit PrintScreen, and get a copy of the layout pasted into the Clipboard?
Or do people use a Word application and use a chess font to place glyphs in front of a cross-hatched chessboard image?
Any ideas?
Thank you.