Board Painter to edit Diagrams for Chess Variants is available open source

Hi

Please check the following link to download the Board Painter. This is intended to share and develop this tool together. It's a freeware under the GNU licence.

If you have improvements (diagrams, old pieces you would like to be modified etc.) don't hesitate to share your ideas at the forum.

http://musketeerchess.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=123

Zied

Thank you, the "boardpainter" is really great!

For analysis diagrams I would have two desires:

1.I would like to have different colors for different arrows. For example, an arrow is green, another arrow is red. But at the moment this does not work, all arrows always have the same color. 2. I would like to be able to highlight individual fields/squares in Color.

Hi Zied,

I'm not sure what picture you are talking about. I saw some graphic at the boardpainter:

If this is related, I don't like the idea of the Archbishop = B+K. That is not normal. Usually the archbishop is B+N.

Also, you mentioned you will add new fairy pieces. I hope you will include an "official" graphic for the "huygens".  It is a piece which jumps prime numbers of squares in the rook's directions. I think this piece has good value for chess on an infinite board. In addition to chess games, it could be very interesting for mathematicians and philosophers. Here are some possible graphics (some are Musketeer-based, and others are not):

I think chess games on very large and infinite boards are getting more attention on YouTube and other websites. Here's some examples of chess positions on very large gameboards:

These images are from (infinite-chess).

Mayapira and I are already using the huygens in an infinite chess game, and it might also be used by other mathematicians like in pictures shown above. So it is my suggestion for the next chess piece to be added at the Musketeer website.

Btw, thanks for the website, and the excellent work you do there.

Hi Zied, McGoohan, Vickalan and all my friends,

It's Raffa. I'm back again after a break of some months.

Welcome back

Welcome back Brainking2017. Great to hear from you again!

I think this forum has been better than ever, and there's new members from many places including China, Chile, Germany, Singapore, Spain, and Russia. Some of the "regulars" including Mayapira (U.S), McGoohan, (Switzerland), Cobra91 (U.S.), and Knig22, (Netherlands) also always seem to be in at least one game as usual!

IvanKosintsev (Ukraine) and LXIVC (U.S.) recently started a game of Waterloo which should be exciting!

(I hope I didn't miss any countries or regulars in this brief summary)

With you back (France) we have many corners of the globe included! I'll be back later today to play my moves. Welcome back!

 I love this thread!!!!

Oh my goodness!!!!!! That website is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been a while since my latest post here. I'm back again and happy to be here with you.

Zied got me involved in many ideas for the future. I think some awesome news will be released in the coming weeks.

Is this the bug?

Those are some weird looking pieces...

By the way, are there official rules for pieces other than the ten shown here? Can they be posted on your website or something?

Hi

Good job!

For using the board painter as an analysis board I still had two wishes:

1. I would like to have different colors for different arrows. For example, an arrow is green, another arrow is red. But at the moment this doesn't work, all arrows are always the same color. 2. I would like to be able to highlight individual fields/squares in different colors.

Are there rules for all the new pieces or just the original 10?

What is happened with board painter? It does not working on standard board,

I think will be Witch and Time Thief.

Could you use the graphic for the Witch which we are familiar here?

OK it's here