Looking for Rubber Stamps for Composing Diagrams

Another vote for Casey rubber stamps. Not cheap but good and nice&helpful people there.

http://www.chesslund.com/detail.asp?id=18293&n=A-set-of-vintage-chess-rubber-stamps-small-squares-6x6-mm

I Have to ask if the rubber stamp method is still useful today? Is it for instruction? I cannot imagine this being used for a small production of pamphlets. Or are people buying these for the sake of collecting only?

@chessroboto, I expect it's for people to make their own notes - flash cards and so on - the sort of thing that is shown in post 13

So which of today's digital tools would you use in order to do the same thing? Were you thinking of chessable, or something else?

Yes, Chessable is one of the options, and it is what I am using since years. Actually, I didn’t miss a single day there since 986 days.

I'm getting some to just to play with and send chess by mail cards. Just as something tactile to do during covid

What I'm using it for is the following... In openings I play, typically they follow a logical path with occasional critical positions where the right move isnt obvious. I move pieces on a board, think , write and when such a position arises I make a position of it using the stamps.  I also play over GM games with the opening. When they get to an interesting tactic in a middle game following an opening I play with either color I make a position of that. Then I can flip through the book and review both. {I'll write e.g. "WHITE TO MOVE" above and have the right move below in pencil. It is not as time efficient as using chessable of course but the time spent doing it helps memory I think and it's also fun to do.

Your system also works when you don't have an internet connection @SwimmerBill!

I like to use the stamps to aid in note taking.

Yes, I did similar notes hen playing Daily Chess. I should doing this again, as it was easier to me to reconstruct my thoughts during the game.

Rubber stamps were used by the great Mark Dvoretsky on his file cards.

If you have a computer & printer you can do the same thing faster & neater with programs like DiagTransfer.  I've used this extensively for years to print 4x6 cards and notes. You can vary the size of the chessboard and add arrows.  I'm now on version 3.0.1 . It's free and I save the diagrams in the word processor of OpenOffice, which also is free.

Hi there,
I actually make rubber stamps as my full time job! We don't have a chess set pre-made though. That's not a bad idea, I'll have a think about that. We can make rubber stamps from any image provided though. If it sounds interesting you can have a look here http://getstamped.co.uk . Hope that's helpful!

I decided to just hand draw everything. No problem except the checkerboard pattern. Is there a rubber stamper for 5mm dot grid journal?

I tweeted the image here: https://twitter.com/HarryRamstrong/status/1657437685798035456?t=gNCZacnveqi67d7KnrnLIQ&s=19

You can find by google for example copyright free images of chess boards to copy paste onto pages as dense as you want. Then print these to make a booklet of them and then draw in your positions writing analysis beside it.

What I do is use a fine mechanical pencil to record the position on these: caps for white and lower vase for black, p,n b r q k. Then as I have time I use my chess piece stamps to go over the pencil. I tried drawing the pieces but mine weren't as clear as yours.