For print or websites - updated 01.01.2010
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On this page you'll find utilities for making
figurine notation and diagrams for printing or webpages. There are also Java
applets or Java Scripts for viewing chess games on a webpage. Everything is
freeware or shareware.
Diagrams for printing are made as a graphics file
or with
chess fonts. Diagrams for webpages are usually
built as GIF images, and some programs even generate the necessary HTML. If you
want to show chess games on your webpage, an interactive
Java
applet or script is usually better than static diagrams and text.
Some links are to FTP-sites, and if you
experience any problems you could search for the file at
http://www.filesearching.com/.
New January 2010: New utility,
Zugzwang para Windows added.
Freeware by A.Chatterjee. Windows.
Set up diagrams with the mouse and
save as a bitmap that can be imported to a word processor. The pieces look like
the well known Linares design. You can add semi-transparent arrows and mark
squares with crosses and dots. There is also an option to save as html.
Download from Chess
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Freeware (presumably - no claims at all are made in the read.me file). A
DOS-program by Dr. Hans-Jorgen Fischer.
Diagrams are set up with mouse or
keyboard and are saved in PCX-format. The design is very much like the pieces
used by the old East German Sportverlag. There are facilities for problem-chess:
'neutral' pieces (both black and white), and pieces can be rotated +/- 90° and
180°. The diagrams are not framed, but frames are easily made in the
wordprocessor.
An excellent program that was used for years by Nørresundby
Chess Club for our newsletter.
Download Diagramm3 (37 KB)
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Freeware by Alain Blaisot. Windows 2000/Windows XP.
Print diagrams with
Alain's own true type chess font or save as RTF (paste into your word processor)
or a BMP picture. You can add coloured squares and arrows. Diagtransfer can also
save the position as FEN or EPD text strings that can be pasted into a chess
program for analysis.
One unique and ingenious feature of DiagTransfer is the ability to "copy"
diagrams from the computer screen (e.g. a webpage or database). You position the
DiagTransfer window with a semi transparent diagram over the diagram you want to
copy, resize the semitransparent diagram to fit and "fill it up".
Read more
and download from Alain's homepage
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Freeware by Frank David. Windows.
ChessOle is a program for making chess
diagrams that can be printed or pasted into a document. With the program you get
two true type chess fonts, ChessOle and Cheq.
Read more (in German) and download from
ChessOle! Homepage (320 kb).
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| Chess Diagram Creator for Lotus Word Pro |
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Freeware by Michel Drouilly
Macro for making diagrams in Word. Just write
a position in "plain English" like:
Kb3 Pa3 b2 c3 d4 Bc2 g7 / Ka1 Pe5
and run the macro. Requires either DiagramTTHabsburg or Chess Merida (type chess
fonts).
Download from Michel's
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Freeware by Alastair Scott.
Macros for Word 6 or higher. Requires an
installed chess font. In the zip-file is the font "Chess Regular", but some
fonts on our page Chess Fonts can be used as well.
Download FEN2DIAG (41 KB) and more from Alastair's web site Chess Word
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Freeware by Dirk Baechle.
Converts FEN (Forsyth Edwards Notation) strings
directly to EPS (Encapsulated Postscript) files, containing the chess board
diagrams. 19 different chess fonts are supported. The compiled version should
run on most DOS/Windows platforms, but you can also download the source (C++)
and compile it yourself.
Download FEN2eps (1.2 mb) from Dirk's web site FEN2eps. |
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| Pgn Converter for MS Office |
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Freeware by Michael Berganovsky. MS Office 97/2000.
With this program you can open/insert pgn files into an MS Office application
(e.g. Word). The moves are converted to figurine notation, and if the game
begins with a diagram - specified in the header with a FEN tag (e.g. [FEN
"r1b2rk1/pp1p1pp1/1b1p2B1/n1qQ2p1/8/5N2/P3RPPP/4R1K1 w - - 0 1"]), you'll get a
diagram too. Most freeware chess fonts on our fonts
page are supported and included. The program was made for MS Office 2000,
but should work with the 97-version too.
Download pgnconv.exe (683 kb).
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| Schachdiagramm-Editor |
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Freeware by Ekkehard May. Windows.
Easy to use: drag and drop pieces and
save or copy/paste the diagram to text as a picture. Settings for co-ordinates
and squares can be adjusted. The diagrams are bitmaps and the size ca. 9x9 cm.
Download from the author's homepage (297 kb).
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Freeware. Windows.
Ekkehard May has made this excellent program. With 27
different styles (chess fonts) to choose from you can make diagrams in various
formats suited for webpages (graphics or HTML) or printed documents. It also
supports fairy chess, and has an interface to the problem solving program
Popeye. Despite a wealth of possibilities the program is easy to use. Everybody
who makes diagrams should try this program - it is a gem!
The program's basic version is free. The professional version is not free,
but offers more features.
Link: http://www.chessdiagrammer.com.
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Freeware by Brian Mitchell. Windows.
New version November 2005. Use the mouse to set up a position and save as a
bitmap (BMP) or JPG - or copy to the clipboard. Square colours, frames and
coordinates can be changed to your liking. Easy to use.
Link: ChessGrafix (ca. 1610 KB)
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Freeware by Dirk Baechle. Windows, Unix, Linux.
ChessTask is a tool for creating collections of chess problems, each
consisting of:
a board diagram (or position),
a text that describes which problem has to be solved (the task) and
a text with the solution.
Creates Html or "ordinary" pages for print.
Link: Chess Task (1,52 mb).
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Shareware by Ashley Bass. Win9*/NT. Price: 5 US $
Creates diagrams in GIF
or BMP format, and you can download other boards (marble) and pieces. The
program reads PGN files. Diagrams can be printed, but are best used on webpages.
The diagrams however are fairly large - about 31 kb, which should be
considered.
Download Chess Helper (662 KB) from http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/lab/3881/chsshlp3.zip
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Freeware by Mark van der Leek. Win9*/NT.
A chess database that can export
games with figurine notation (if you like) and diagrams with true type chess fonts for use with wordprocessors. It also exports
HTML and diagrams for webpages.
Read more about ChessPad on our page with Programs & Utilities.
Download the program from ChessPad Homepage (717 kb).
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| Chess Font Diagram v.2 |
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Freeware by Alan Hickey. Win9*.
A nifty utility that creates diagrams
with True Type chess fonts. You set up the
position on a screen board and copy the "text diagram" to your word processor.
The help file explains how (easy). The program can also make html files with
True Type diagrams, but to be able to see the chess pieces on a web page your
reader must have the chosen font installed. The program knows quite a few fonts
already and can be configured for even more fonts. With the program you get the
author's own font Chess Plain.
Download (193 kb) from the author's
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Freeware by Manfred Rosenboom. Windows 9*/NT.
EPD2diag is an
excellent allround program. First of all it's a diagram editor, but the
positions you set up or import can also be analysed with chess programs lige
e.g. Rebel (extended support) and Crafty. EPD2diag can also generate HTML.
The program reads PGN, EPD and ECT (the correspondance chess program ECTool). You can save diagrams as GIF,
BMP, HTML, ASCII, EPD, PGN and RTF (Rich Text Format). That way you can easily
make diagrams with true type chess fonts - just paste them into your word
processor. EPD2diag supports most fonts on our fonts
page (and some more), and you can add new fonts just by editing the INI
file.
Version p1.5 (669 KB) can be downloaded from http://www.rebel.nl/epd2diag.htm, where you can read more about
this great program.
Download an updated version of "ChessFonts.ini" which supports the newest
fonts on this page: chesfont.zip 5. Feb. 2000
(2 KB). Compare the file date before you overwrite the original.
The author's
home page: Maro's www home
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Freeware by Manuel López. Windows.
A nifty program for making diagrams
with True Type chess fonts or as jpeg images. Co-ordinates possible. The program
is in Spanish, but very easy to use.
Write to Manuel and he will send the program.
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Freeware by Wim van Beusekom. Macintosh.
A chess-playing program, but it
can also be used to make diagrams for printing or for web pages.
Link: MacChess |
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| Wiseboard Online Chess Diagram Generator |
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Freeware by Trent.
Make chess diagrams online and save as a png-file. You
can insert a FEN text string or drag-drop the pieces. Board colours can be
changed and you can select co-ordinates on/off.
Link: ChessUp's
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Shareware by David Zechiel. Windows.
HTML-generator that makes a page
with diagram(s) and game score. Diagrams are constructed with GIF-images.
Download from the author's homepage http://www.zechiel.com/czech (1.5
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Freeware by Manfred Rosenboom. Explorer & Netscape version >= 4.0.
jsEPD2diag is a webpage with a Java script for making diagrams for webpages
- fast and very easy.
The diagram is made of smaller GIF-images, and the
program generates the necessary HTML. Just copy and paste into your own HTML
document. You put the GIF images on the server, but keep the webpage on your
local PC.
Download fra forfatterens side (ca. 15
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Freeware by Alastair Scott.
Macro for Word 6 or higher. Converts PGN
(portable game notation) to algebraic figurine notation. Requires an installed
chess font. Most fonts on our page Chess Fonts can be
used.
Download PGN2FIG (26 KB) from Chess Word
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Freeware by Dirk Bächle.
Converts PGN to a LaTeX input file for figurine
notation and Informator symbols. Requires LaTeX software.
Read more and
download on Pgn2ltx
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Scripts and Applets
HTML/Java Script. Freeware by Andrew Templeton.
Actually it isn't Java,
but JavaScript - for those who care about the difference! Palview is an
excellent program that can take chess games or chess problem stored in PGN
format and change it to HTML/javascript for online viewing on a webpage.
Together with Palive it can also be used
for live game transmission. The webpages are quick to load and you have lots of
cool options. Read more about the program, see examples and download from our
special Palview
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Javascript. Freeware by Paolo Casaschi.
A javascript utility for
displaying chess games from a pgn file on a website. If you want to update, you
just update the pgn file - there is no need to create a new html page. Fully
customizable display. Each item (board, button bar, game selection menu, PGN
header info, game text, game comment and more) can be displayed (or hidden) at
pleasure in your html file. Supports different chess bitmaps and different
chessboard sizes.
Example and download at pgn4web. More
examples at http://www.casaschi.net/chess.
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Flash. Freeware by DGT Projects.
A nifty program that can be used to view
and publish pgn-files on the Internet. A nice program and very easy to use.
Requires Macromedia Flash.
Download ChessTheatre from DGT Projects (5,13 mb).
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HTML/Java Script by Uwe Auerswald. Now freeware.
Can - like Palview - convert chess games in pgn format to HTML pages
with Java Script for online viewing. PGNtoJS has a nice interface that guides
you through the process step by step. The program supports variations and chess
problems, and with the latest version DGT boards are supported for live game
transmission. A very webmaster-friendly program. Download from the author's site
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HTML/Java Script. Freeware by Lutz Tautenhahn.
Pgn Viewer for webpages.
You load a pgn text file in the right frame and by copying the text into a
window in the left frame you can play through the game. This copy-paste
procedure is a bit tiresome, but on the orher hand the viewer is flexible
because it reads pgn text and you don't need to write an html page for a
particular game. If you're ready to write a few lines of JavaScript the Lite
version can let the reader pick from a drop down list.
Download from the
author's page http://www.lutanho.net/pgn/pgnviewer.html (26 kb).
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Java Applet. Freeware by Kevin Coulombe.
A fast and nifty Java applet for
displaying chess games on a web page. One of the smart features is that the user
can paste his own pgn file (as text) into a window and replay the game online.
Link: Pgn Reader (62
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| Chess TutorTM Java
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Java Applet. Freeware by Eduardo Suastegui.
Reads PGN files and
interactively displays chess games on screen. Takes longer time to activate than
the Java applets from Misty Beach or Internet Chess Club, but has more features. Chess Tutor
handles files with many games, reads Java-compressed PGN (pgz), handles several
files and can check the gamefile(s) for changes at user defined intervals, which
is very convenient for live coverage.
For more information, demo and download
(354 KB), go to maro's
Chess Games Pages or have a look at our page Chess Games Online.
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Java Applet. Freeware by Andrew Gove.
Interactively displays a chess game
on screen. Loads fairly quickly, but doesn't read PGN files. The moves are
written in the HTML-document with a special (though simple) notation. You can
put the applet on your server or you can link to the Internet Chess Club.
Link: Internet
Chess Club (25 KB + images ca. 28
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| Misty Beach PGN viewer java applet |
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Java Applet by Mark Roulo. Free for personal non-commercial use.
Reads PGN
files and interactively displays chess games on screen. Loads quickly (10-20
sec.).
Download from Misty
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Java Applet. Freeware by JP Hendriks.
A Java viewer for PGN files.
Montreux loads fairly quickly and the setup is easy with a minimum of mumbo
jumbo and magic spells. Read the text file "Montreux.cfg" for setup information.
The colours are strong (curry!), but if you like you can create your own pieces.
Montreux only works with newer browsers that support JDK1.1.
Extensive
information and download: Montreux PGN Viewer (124 KB).
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Java Applet. Freeware by Michael Keating.
A nifty applet that reads pgn.
Handles one or several games, game fragments (FEN), comments and quiz. A major
advantage is the size and speed. The program is small and reads zipped pgn
files, which saves time and bandwidth. The board however may seem a bit on the
large side when you have to scroll to view the comments on a 17# screen.
MyChessViewer requires IE4.*, Netscape 4.06 or newer. Freeware if you credit
the author's page http://www.mychess.com (84kb).
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Java Applet. Freeware by Odd Gunnar Malin.
There are two versions of this
applet: one for online replay of games and one especially designed for chess
problems. The applet is small and loads quickly compared to e.g. Chess Tutor -
the zipped program file with examples and all is only 70 kb! The chess board is
scalable, and the problems version can show the solution, when/if you give up.
The program reads PGN-files and EPD/FEN positions and supports different
languages by use of country code! The applet is written in Java 1.1, which
requires browsers like Netscape >= ver.4 at "the other end". Source code
available.
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