Is it still possible to use the old chess formatting?

[groza528]

I guess this is more of a question than a request. Back before we had the chess tags we used 64 individual image tags. I was wondering if those images still existed somewhere, and if so, where are they? The reason I'm wondering is because I would like to try playtesting a chesslike game in the near future that requires a nonstandard arrangement of light and dark squares.

[wordcross]

If anyone knows where they are, it's probably mith. You might ask him.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[MatthewV]

the ones found here?
http://www.greylabyrinth.com/Img/chess/

for some reason it doesn't give you an index. But all the images come apart...like this one

http://www.greylabyrinth.com/Img/chess/dnb.gif

l = light, d= dark (for square color)
p= pawn, r= rook, b=bishop, q=queen, k=king, ee= blank
b= black, w= white for the player color
numbers are just numbers, letters are just letters

so a dnb.gif is a dark square with a black knight.
and ee.gif is a spacer

[groza528]

Perfect.
Thank you sir.

[Antrax]

[MatthewV]

I guess many websites I browse are insecure then

[jeep]

Yep, many probably are...

You can also force the squares to be different colors using the new tags. prefixing the character in the FEN string with a ^ will swap the colors.

-JEEP

Edit: Antrax, are you saying that security isn't "some reason"? Seems like a reason to me. -JEEP

[Antrax]

"some" implies "indefinite", at least to me.
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[Ningal]

Hm. I'd say that in phrases like "for some reason" it's more like "one unknown to the utterer/author", which in this case, of course, it was.

("Some", in case we haven't noticed, is a horrendously annoying word to categorize, as its uses are a. legion, b. somewhat fuzzy, and c. uncategorized by traditional grammarians, who frown on most of them.)

[jeep]

Sorry, should have put a smiley at the end of that.

-JEEP

[mith]

[HyToFry]

Are the chess tags still not working?

I'll have to look into making this work again. I had a blast doing it in perl. I bet it'll be a lot harder in PHP, but surely it'll be possible.
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[MatthewV]

jeep made them work.
Black = jeep

[HyToFry]

Man. The apprentice has become the master.
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[jeep]

I've always been the master, you've just never been enlightened enough to realize it before.

-JEEP

[HyToFry]

So the apprentice has become enlightened?
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[jeep]

Finally.

-JEEP