[OS X TeX] Lucida again

George Gratzer gratzer at me.com
Thu Feb 12 15:59:59 CET 2009


Herb,

Fritz has a special mode, analyzing endgames. On the Mac, I have  
Shredder. Plays a good game, but not very useful about endgame  
compositions.

No, I do not use Skak. Fritz does the diagrams.

GG

On 12-Feb-09, at 7:52 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Feb 11, 2009, at 8:51 PM, George Gratzer wrote:
>
>> I have my suspicions. I am writing an article about some endgames I  
>> composed when I was young, and I needed Fritz, a Windows only  
>> wonder. So I installed VMWare Fusion, and slowly trouble developed.  
>> For instance, RBrowser would not run even when Fusion was not  
>> running. So I uninstalled Fusion and started using Parallel  
>> Desktop. The system got very corrupted. I uninstalled Parallel  
>> Desktop and again installed the system.
>>
>> Now I stick to Boot Camp.
>>
>> GG
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> What about Sigma Chess (with the powerful HIARCS engine) or ExaChess  
> (can also use that engine)?
>
> Are you using the skak package for your writing? I put together a  
> Dropscript that converts pgn->tex which uses a template that can be  
> customized. You can get it from <http://homepage.mac.com/herbs2> as  
> DropPgn2Ltx.zip.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
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