A command line tool to make a picture of a chess position

[Roland Chastain]

Hello!

I would like to present a very simple command line tool, that makes a picture of a chess position.

https://github.com/rchastain/chess-image

For now it accepts three arguments: an EPD string, the desired size of the picture, and the name of the file to create.

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    chess-image -p "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq -" -s 320 -o position.png
    chess-image --position="rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq -" --size=320 --output=position.png

Maybe I will add more options if someone is interested.

Regards.

Roland

[JohnW]

Is there an advantage to using the command line instead of using something like Fritz 17 or Arena?

[Ovyron]

One advantage would be not needing to use a GUI like Fritz 17 or Arena.

[Dann Corbit]

Is there an advantage to using the command line instead of using something like Fritz 17 or Arena?

Imagine if you wanted to do 15,000 images.

[Guenther]

This thread links to two similar tools with batch capability.

http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.p ... vg#p785948

[Roland Chastain]

Thank you for your comments.

Dear Guenther, thank you for the link. I didn't know that Python had a standard chess library. Very interesting.

I could easily add HTML output. I have some code ready for that. If I understand you correctly, by batch capability you mean that the tool accepts as argument an EPD file and generates an HTML document with all positions?

[JohnW]

Is there an advantage to using the command line instead of using something like Fritz 17 or Arena?

Imagine if you wanted to do 15,000 images.

That's a good point, though I can't imagine ever wanting to do that I am sure somebody would.

[Roland Chastain]

Hello!

A new version is available.

https://github.com/rchastain/chess-image/releases

Two options have been added:

• -f <font> or --font=<font>
• -c or --coordinates

The possible values for the font parameter are: adventurer, montreal.

The borders with coordinates aren't available for the Chess Montreal font. If you ask the coordinates with that font, the option is ignored without warning.

Regards.

Roland