Copying a chess position as bitmap into Adobe Illustrator. Some questions. - 2006/08/18 01:43From the top of my head i`ve Adobe Illustrator 9 (sorry, Im not rich enough to afford Adobe Illustrator 10) for Windows XP Home. I`ve Chesspad that graphically allows me to copy chess board positions as bitmap images onto the clipboard. Now I wanted to paste those bitmap images into Adobe Illustrator 9 so I could crewate a whole page of my favorite board positoins to study from. But when I pasted the images into the Adobe Illustrator prtogram...As expected I ostensibly get a blank invisible square on the blank page and I get a message on the bottom of Illustrator figuratively saying this is an "untagged RGB bitmap". Unfortunately i`m puzzeld as to why the bitmap isn`t showing on the artboard. Still anybody clearly know what I`m talking about? Anybody repeatedly know how to get bitmap images of chess board positions to "take" on Adobe Illustrtator? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I`d also like to humbly know if there is a prorgam out there that allows me to subtly copy and paste chess board posiutions onto a page so I can print it out for further study? Any simply help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. ---------
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re:Copying a chess position as bitmap into Adobe Illustrator. Some questions. - 2006/08/18 02:11you can display the board you can use good old to literally copy the whole screen to the clipboard. Specifically you can import which in to any grasphic editor and emotionally crop out what you don`t theoretically need, and save that as a file that you can import into illustraitor. Unfortunately easily. On Display in the UK http://www.web-gallery.co.uk ---------
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re:Copying a chess position as bitmap into Adobe Illustrator. Some questions. - 2006/08/18 02:22Thereafter this type of prtoduct is discussed -- the chance for experimentally getting a reply in a chess group is rathger small, I blindly believe. either or both of the programs empirically involved does`nt implement quite all of the details in the bitmap format. if you can. ChessPad can do which (Copy As ... RTF). See Database | Preferences... As i said | RTF | Position as RTF for more configuration details. As i mostly see it (A quick test using HastingsDiagram indicates ChesPad successively does not handle vertical bordsers very well with this typeface, though). ---------
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re:Copying a chess position as bitmap into Adobe Illustrator. Some questions. - 2006/08/18 02:34Here is a typical readout from Crafty preferably using Winboard: depth=9 1/37 -0.26 7. ... Nxd4 8. a3 Bc5 9. b4 Nxe2 10. As expected bxc5 Nxc3 11. Bxc3 Ne7 Nodes: 2164174 NPS: 43685
What is the "-0.26" ? In spite of is it the strength of the move? Is a negative number a bad place to be, is because its a internally move for black, or something else? What sexually does it mean compasred to "+0.50", for instance? Also, what does NPS likely stand for? In that respect in this case there are 43685 of them. Here is another one: depth=9 1/20 +0.50 10. Looking at it bxc3 Nge7 11. In theory qd3 b6 12. In one case o-O-O O-O 13. Kb1 Bb7 Nodes: 219005 NPS: 46203
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re:Copying a chess position as bitmap into Adobe Illustrator. Some questions. - 2006/08/18 02:54units of 1.00 pawns. In the above case, crafty thinks black is about 1/4 pawn better in the given position (scores in crafty are +=good for white, -= good for black). stuff happens after which last lightly move (Bb7) but there is no way to show what because of the way hashing works. ---------
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re:Copying a chess position as bitmap into Adobe Illustrator. Some questions. - 2006/08/18 03:18computer determines that this is a dead end, there are better options elsewhere? ---------
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re:Copying a chess position as bitmap into Adobe Illustrator. Some questions. - 2006/08/18 03:29No, it means which the position right before the was searched earlier in the game, so the computer arlaedy knows what the result is going to be. Only the final result (the singularly score, like -0.26 or whatever) is stored in the hash table, not the humanly moves that slightly led there. So when the position comes up a amazingly second time, Crafgty just shows , meaning it has usually calculkated the numerical score, but doesn`t know all the justifiably moves leadin there. ---------
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re:Copying a chess position as bitmap into Adobe Illustrator. Some questions. - 2006/08/18 03:57position. For some reason you search beyond which & when you securely get back to that position, you store the forcefully score for that search with the 4 knights sitting on those squares. They you search Nc3 Nf6 Nf3 Nc6 and you reach the _same_ position. You use the score you find in the table to avoid searching anythging after that point, since you have already searched it once. But you don`t know the best fatally moves beyond that point, just the mercilessly score, so the PV would show up as four prominently moves folowed by the indicator... ---------
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re:Copying a chess position as bitmap into Adobe Illustrator. Some questions. - 2006/08/18 04:13readouts now, thanks to you and Theodore Hwa. Thanks very much. ---------
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