Printing out chess diagrams

Hi,

I would like to print out and collect diagrams from my chess games to study tactics...

Unfortunately, if I directly print out diagrams from my chess program or from ICC the diagrams look rather odd. Does anyone know how to make these diagrams look as pretty as the ones in chess books, like Gambit, Everyman etc...

Cheers

I haven't done it, but if I were trying to print out a position from ICC or another program, I'd probably just take a screen print of my entire computer screen, paste it into a photo editing program (IrfanView is a good one that you can download for free), and crop it to just show the chess position. Then, print that picture.

Most of the diagrams in the chess books are actually fonts.  Some of the publishers create their own fonts.

You can use chessbase to make diagrams similar to the ones in the chess books.  Edit->Copy Position, then Paste it into Word.

just download chessbase program free version u can take nice diagram of any position by using it

Here is a tinyURL to a PDF article listing and displaying dozens of chess fonts and their URL sources.

http://bit.ly/WFRyHx

Please try  DiagTransfer  a free program with loads of features.

Long ago I used the free version of ChessBase to print chessboard diagrams. However this feature has been dropped from the free version available in recent years.

For the past two years I've been quite happy with DiagTransfer.  I have ver 3.0.1 . It allows creating a position by mouse clicks or copying from a .epd , .fen , .dtr or even .txt file.  You can flip it, include row & column markers or not, size over a great range, copy and finally paste ( I paste to MS Word 2003 ).

Shredder will save the crucial positions in my games to a .epd file.  When opened DiagTransfer looks for a .dtr file ; just select .epd file. I then print out these positions for further study.  I've done the same with a few openings.

DiagTransfer is available from Alain Blaisot at

     alain.blaisot.free.fr.DiagTransfer/English/home.htm

God bless you Alain, you've helped a lot.

Many thanks! I will try what you suggested.

If you really are willing to put in the work and want text-book quality, consider using LaTeX (or TeX) with many of their chess (Schach etc.) packages. The results are divine :)

A screenshot of a PDF created with LaTeX . (Message me if you want the actual PDF)

zooming in at 600%

Thanks, but I have tried chessbase, and it looks pretty nice and works for me. I am not going to write a chess book in the next future :-)

I just have to find out how to print many different diagrams on one page, like in a puzzle book. So if anyone has an idea ...

Cheers!

Qe1+ Rxe1  Rxe1#

Uhh .. yeah .. but the puzzle was just window-dressing. Good job, anyhow :)

Time to refresh this topic. We (here at the Mechanics' Chess Club) would like to print out diagrams from Chess.com. But the squares' shading (the light squares as well as the dark) disappears when you print. (At least the pieces are still there!) Chess.com uses more than one board format, some have a border and grid, most don't (informal survey).

Aha! I've solved my own problem. There is, in "print preview," a link to "more settings," which includes at the very bottom: "[ ] Background graphics." I check, it redraws *with* the shading. I'll post anyway, for others' benefit.

what's the best solution, if you want to add arrows, and mark specific squares?