Publishing Chess boards

Hi,

I'm giving some lessons in chess and find placing chess positions into my notes to be a real pain in the behind.

What do you use if you want to publish a chess position (into, for example, a word document). Arrows, highlighted squares, etc would be a real bonus.

I have chessbase for projector work, but haven't figured out how to copy the board as a gif (or whatever) yet.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

D

Originally posted by Ragnorak
Hi,

I'm giving some lessons in chess and find placing chess positions into my notes to be a real pain in the behind.

What do you use if you want to publish a chess position (into, for example, a word document). Arrows, highlighted squares, etc would be a real bonus.

I have chessbase for projector work, but haven't figured out how to copy the board as a gif (or whatever) yet.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

D

Cheers, I can add the arrows, and mark squares/ranks/diagonals using word, but I'd much prefer an all in one solution.

Anybody else?

Cheers,

D

I do a lot of chess writing - I use chessbase.

I copy the position from chessbase and then in WORD go to 'paste special' and select paste bitmap.

If doing a long documanet then it's best use the diagram font as
the bitmaps and WORD tend to start shifting about. But for a
couple of pages it's OK.

Best to use options and get a b/w board displaying in chessbase
these show better if you are going to do b/w printing.

http://chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandlerarticle.php?ChandID=2

Was done by pasting the position into a paint package.
Chopping off the rest of the board and pasting into WORD.