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H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Oct 13, 2020 03:42 PM UTC in reply to Alex Trick from 02:26 PM:

@Alex - The mnemonic pics here were copied from WinBoard by taking screenshots, where I used a general-purpose drawing program to make the background transparent. WinBoard creates those images on-the fly, from components that represent the move in one direction (but i a way depending on the range in adjacent directions), plus a central dot. In order to draw an edge around that for the outline pieces, it creates a black image first, and overlays it with a slightly smaller white image, so that a black outline remains. The largest size is 33x33, though, and the images are not anti-aliased.

I remember having made a set of SVG images for each of the individual pieces, for XBoard, though. I am pretty sure this includes all the Chu-Shogi pieces, and probably also the Wa-Shogi pieces. I would have to dig that up; I could not find it on my website.

Interesting that there now is a new Chu-Shogi engine. How strong is it, compared to HaChu?

As to larger variants: I have a pretty strong engine for Tenjiku Shogi. (Not yet released; I am still planning to do that.)

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[Edit] Oh, I see. The engine actually is HaChu. It is only the interface that is new.

[Edit2] I found the SVG pieces, and uploaded the whole project to http://hgm.nubati.net/Mnemonic-S.tar.gz .


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