TEXmate (comprehensive chess annotation in LATEX) Usage
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1. 5 c5 6 c3 Nc6 7 Ne2 7 Ngf3 is also common 7 Qb6 Black should exchange in the center instead and only then play Qb6 8 Nf3 Be7 8 cxd4 9 cxd4 9 f6 10 exf6 Nxf6 11 0 0 Bd6 gives Black a reasonable game Here is just one sample line 12 Bf4 This sacrifices the b pawn in return for play on the dark squares 12 Bxf4 13 Nxf4 Qxb2 14 Ng5 Ke7 and White has to justify the material investment 10 Kfl Be7 In this sharp line of the French opening lines with 10 f6 is a wiser move 11 a3 Nf8 12 b4 Bd7 13 Be3 Nd8 Black does have a plan to play Bb5 and exchange the light squared bishops 14 Nc3 a5 Now the scope of the Bd7 is severely limited and Black s plan beginning with 13 Nd8 is exposed as faulty 2 And here you can see this book was typeset with Word putting a space after the period risks an unacceptable line break there Word doesn t have something like our 9 0 0 0 0 Black should just play 9 f6 here 10 Nf4 Nd8 11 Qc2 f5 11 g6 12 h4 c4 13 Bxg6 hxg6 14 h5 g5 15 Ng6 fxg6 16 Qxg6 Kh8 17 Bxg5 Bxg5 18 Nxg5 Rf7 19 Nxf7 Nxf7 20 Qxf7 Qxb2 21 h6 and Black gets mated 12 exf6 Nxf6 13 Ng5 White s pieces are swarming on the kingside and Black just can t get enough defensive pieces to rescue the king 13 g6 14 Bxg6 hxg6 15 Qxg6 Kh8 16 Qh6 Kg8 17 Ng6 White won 8 Chess symbols The table on the next page lists TfXmate s chess symbols and the2. 8 6 a4 7 b3 cl xb4 1 0 OK here is the same game with a different format for resuming moves renewcommand beforeb makes resuming black moves to be typeset as if they were not resuming ones So 1 c7 d6 2 b5 2 c5 dl 3 c8 cl 2 b7 d7 Rxc7 d5 3 b4 3 b6 q6 d4 4 d3 d3 5 c2 d4 6 c8 What Zukertort overlooked He only saw 6 c8 c4 7 xc4 stalemate Promoting a rook White now threatens a8 a4 7 b3 c1 xb4 1 0 7 2 Watson s format The following game opening is taken from John Watson s wonderful Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy Gambit 1998 page 254 I also copy his for matting in addition to double column on which I blame the overfulls x for captures long commentary in in dividual paragraphs no period but a space after numbers These are the appropriate declarations renewcommand afterno renewcommand iiopent par renewcommand iicloset par renewcommand takes x Timoshenko Itkis Baile Herculane 1996 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 c3 f6 4 e5 fd7 5 f4 c5 6 f3 c6 7 e3 cxd4 8 xd4 b6 9 d2 xb2 10 bl a3 16 axb5 17 xa3 xa3 18 xb5 xa2 19 d6 f8 20 al xal 21 xal xal 22 f2 Here the game went 22 a8 23 g5 f6 24 h5 g6 25 h6 with a win ning attack Better seems 22 xed Nunn leading to 23 c3 g4 24 e2 when 24 a8 25 c7 is good for White but 24 e7 holds out hope for equality for example 25 xc8 25 b4 is another possibility 25 Zno
3. Bishop Queen King pieceinitials But this can be changed with pieceinitials In fact TEXmate itself uses this command to initialize the default pieceinitials PRNBQK The argument is the initials to be used respectively for pawn and then left to right in White s initial position The initial for pawn is given only for diagrams in game notation the pawn is not indicated Move Numbers TEXmate keeps track of the move number Inputting the numbers is totally optional to the user and although it may be helpful for later edition of the document sometimes the variations and sub variations are so complicated that one loses track of them If the user does indeed input the number it will override TfXmate s count makebarother makebarchess Delimiters Moves and move numbers are delimited by spaces periods or semicolons None of these will be typeset directly since TR Xmate takes care of all formatting and punctuation Of course this is customizable Chess mode All this is done within chess mode just as changes to math mode changes to chess mode Sometimes notably tables you need for other things so you can turn its chess meaning off with makebarother To turn it back on makebarchess Checks should be input with even if you don t like them to be typeset There is a checksign command default that you could redefine as nothing Captures too should be input with x even if not intended to be visib
4. TEXmate comprehensive chess annotation in BTEX Usage sample and reference Federico Garcia federook gmail com 03 13 05 Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 A note on installation 2 3 Basic conventions 2 4 Formatting and punctuation 3 5 Commentary 4 5 1 Additional commenting tools seu csar orere o 4 6 Diagrams 5 7 Samples 5 fil Avfamous study a a e aa 2 Eda ee A A ag ig aed 6 7 2 Watson s format 22 4 e 2a be be ee eee ee ae 7 Ta Schillers format see eect gee ee GLE Ee Atego Boe eae Geet 8 8 Chess symbols 9 1 Introduction I tried using the skak package I liked very much its beautiful chess fonts But somehow I got frustrated I forget exactly what it was but it frustrated me It was about annotating the games somehow the syntax requirements that skak imposed were too cumbersome when an analysis had many variations and subvariations 1By Torben Hoffmann 2001 So I simply didn t do it in TEX I think I didn t do it at all Until one day I got a game that I wanted to publish So I went to Word yes yes I m sorry but I had no option Besides the editors of the Pennswoodpusher certainly used Word so a Word file would be better I commented my game and translated it into a more readable format to send it to my friends I wanted figurines instead of initials for the pieces I used a True Type for this I wanted the main game to be separated from the commentary by paragraph breaks sub variations to b
5. commands that produce them The symbols come from the font of skak but some of them have been adjusted for size and position These modifications are shown in the third column All the signs are smash ed the box that contains them is zero in height and depth so that they don t affect interline spacing wbetter Shifted bbetter Shifted wBetter Shifted bBetter WBetter large BBetter large equal unclear Large shifted compensation large development footnotesize spaceadv footnotesize attack large initiative large counterplay large zugzwang small1 onlymove footnotesize withidea footnotesize betteris footnotesize boardfile boarddiagonal small boardcenter small kingside queenside weak small ending footnotesize bishops oppositebishops samebishops unitedpawns separatedpawns doubledpawns passedpawn pawnsno small timetrouble with small without small chessetc chesssee 10
6. e indicated differently etc The contents of the game and even the analyzed variations were of course the same I started looking at several books to see their chess formatting habits And I figured that being able to transcribe a game from format to format without having to edit the input is clearly a task for TEX TEXmate is the result The emphasis is on the formatting of annotated games of chess skak s focus seems to be more graphical beautiful tools for diagrams the package itself even keeps track of the position according to the moves in the game which of course is the deep reason why it s not really flexible about variations and alternative lines those confuse it Commented code is in the file texmate dtx A user s manual required using the package so it comes as this one separate file 2 A note on installation Installation is straightforward the packages is made of a source texmate dtx and texmate ins which generate a tex texmate sty and a doc texmate dvi with the commented code In addition there is this extra doc texmatesample tex But the fonts of the skak package have to be installed The easiest would of course install skak itself I have included the fonts There are mf files source fd files vf and a map file 3 Basic conventions The moves are input with the short algebraic system of notation Pieces Default is English piece initials Rook kNight
7. le The command takes holds the sign that will be used for them default a space trimmed times Mate is done through mate Alternatively of course Promotions are kind of an exception Due to how TFXmate works the particle c8N will produce literally c8N instead of c8 I did not think it was worth to change the whole nature of the system just for this so I will ask the user to use piece name commands for promotions c8 knight or c8 knight as some people do 4 Formatting and punctuation The output will be consistent as to punctuation marks All of the following input streams 1 e4 e5 2 Nc3 Nf6 3 Bb5 a6l 1 e4 e5 2 Nc3 Nf6 3 Bb5 a6 and even 1 e4 e5 Nc3 Nf6 Bb5 a6l will produce with default settings 1 e4 e5 2 c3 f6 3 b5 a6 This format can be changed redefining the following commands afterno What comes after the number by default afterw What comes between white s and black s moves u afterb What comes between black s move and the next number u beforeb What comes before black s move when it s resuming the varia tion the move _ dots beforeno What comes before the number The character that symbolizes each pieces by default the figurines is con tained in the commands rook knight bishop queen and king and can be changed at any moment These piece name commands as well as those for chess symbols can be used in
8. mate The symbols that mark the opening and closing of the commentaries are typeset by the commands iopen iclose iiopen iiclose etc These are called by the characters and The control sequences and call for iopent icloset etc t for text If you are going to change these remember that the first level of commentary is level 2 1 is the game itself Text can be inserted in commentaries simply by using the character prop erly Examples in the next sections illustrate 5 1 Additional commenting tools With dummy and ddummy you can insert dummy moves If TRXmate was expecting White s move number 32 dummy will make it expect Black s move number 32 half a move is skipped With ddummy it will expect White s move number 33 a entire move was skipped Remember that you can change the move number at any moment simply by typing the new number in the input With white you force TeXmate to handle the next move as one by White black forces it to handle it as one by Black With these commands TrXmate does not try to keep track of the move number and so they should be used in connection with numbers Both 34 black and black 34 work in the same way TRXmate will expect Black s move number 34 If you want to use the fonts of another level without actually invoking a commentary you can use steplevel and backlevel The former increases the level by 1 the latter decreases it by 1 Both the
9. n incomplete files so you can have 4 x 4 boards for example The SquareNo variable holds the number of squares per line and it can be modified 7 Samples The following are examples from real life Modifying a few commands I was able to mimic the formats of two books and I present a game from each Looking at the code for these samples must be the best way to learn how to use TRXmate 7 1 lt A famous study But first comes a beautiful position I used almost the default formatting of TEXmate except redefining renewcommand afterb renewcommand iiclose leavevmode unskip so that there is no semicolon between black and white moves I chose this because there are alternatives in the text scarce commentaries and they are separated by This position has been associated to the name of a Spanish amateur Saave dra Its history is interesting it seems that a similar endgame was reached in a game toward the end of the 19 century and called a lot of attention Zukertort published an analysis of it almost complete but not quite And then it was left to Saavedra to find while reading Zukertort s article a move that must be counted among the most amazing chess tricks to be found anywhere 1 c7 d6 2 b5 2 c5 dl 3 c8 cl 2 b7 d7 Rxc7 2 d5 3 b4 3 b6 d6 3 d4 4 d3 d3 5 c2 d4 6 c8 What Zukertort overlooked He only saw 6 c8 c4 7 xc4 stalemate Promoting a rook White now threatens a
10. n load the corresponding font for the level threat lt gt diagram diagramsize notfilling SquareNo Remember that the main game is level 1 the last level of commentary is level 4 With the threat macro you can introduce threats This command has an argument enclosed within lt and gt the argument is set as regular text i e not in chess mode Before it though the sign is appended For example 17 Nce5 threat lt h4 wBetter attack gt Ne8 h4 f5 17 ce5 h4 18 e8 h4 19 f5 6 Diagrams Producing the diagrams is really straightforward more so than trying to explain it in words Here are two examples that should make it really clear already diagram rir1k ppiqn2p 5pp 3p2N diagram r4rk 1q2ppbp b2p2p 6Q 8 PP3PPP 2R1R1K 2pn 1P4P P3PPBP 1RBQRNK The diagram is typeset from the top board file to the bottom one and from left to right Numbers mean consecutive empty squares lowercase letters mean black pieces uppercase letters are white pieces finishes a line TfXmate will fill any empty squares at the right of the last piece in the file For the pieces you use the letters defined by pieceinitials default PRNBQK The default size for the diagram each of its squares is 18pt It can be changed modifying the TEX length diagramsize The diagrams don t have to be 8 x 8 If you choose the notfilling option to TRXmate it will not fill up the remaining squares i
11. running text Or in chess mode for that matter C ifont iifont iiifont ivfont iopen iclose iiopen iiclose dummy ddummy white black steplevel backlevel 5 Commentary Within chess mode the character opens a commentary TReXmate will then expect a move that is an alternative to the one in the text For example 34 Nd5 Ne4 Bxd5 Qxd5 35 Rei wBetter 34 d5 34 e4 34 xd5 34 xd5 35 ell Commentaries can be nested 135 Ret cxd5 7 Qxd5 Kh8 dxc6 wbetter c3 7 Kh1 35 e1 35 cxd5 xd5 35 h8 36 dxc6 36 c3 36 h1 As you see TEXmate takes care of punctuation and fonts But before go ing about modifying this things there is an alternative way of commentary control sequences and They are intended for freer commentary they do not insert any punctuation and the user has total control over the way the commentary is typeset All of this can be modified The samples that follow later in this document are probably the best way to learn about this But here is the abstract expla nation the main game boldface by default is level 1 There are 4 levels and their fonts are controlled by ifont iifont iiifont and ivfont They can be defined as standard commands like bfseries but there s one caveat this doesn t apply by itself to the chess font Changing levels 3 and 4 is easy for levels 1 and 2 look at the code of TeX
12. sko Borovsky s principle is highly Xc8 26 xc8 a4 27 xb7 6 relevant here the queen itself provides some countterplay agains White s c3 point which give Black a chance against the coming onslaught 11 b5 xd4 Risky Later games saw 11 db8 12 f5 b4 aparently leading to a messy equality 12 xd4 b4 13 0 0 a6 14 b3 a5 15 fb1 a3 Very provocative 15 xb5 is un clear after both 16 xb5 xd2 and 16 xb4 c 16 f5 D Timoshenko attributes this move to Kruppa 7 3 Schiller s format Now I take a game from Eric Schiller s Standard Chess Openings Cardoza Publishing 2002 pages 291 2 His formatting includes x for captures ini tials not figurines for pieces semicolon after black s moves period after num ber but no space after it in text commentary without punctuation and a 1 Nf6 form for black resuming moves renewcommand afterno renewcommand afterb renewcommand beforeb the move dots renewcommand rook R renewcommand knight N renewcommand bishop B renewcommand queen Q renewcommand king K renewcommand iiopen renewcommand iiopent renewcommand iiclose leavevmode unskip renewcommand iicloset leavevmode unskip Note the use of Plain T X s unskip in commentary closing commands it avoids double spaces But it requires a previous leavevmode 102 TARRASCH ECKART C05 Nuremberg 1889 This is the way that Tarrasch
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