From: Jarl Ove Staurnes <jarlst <at> CONSILIO <dot> OSLO <dot> NO>
Date: 6 nov 1998
Subject: Re: Shogi diagram editor

Marco Durante <durante <at> NIRS <dot> GO <dot> JP> writes:

> is anybody aware of a Software  for creating Shogi diagrams? For who is
> familiar with chess software, something similar to Chess Captor or Chess
> Maker, where you can edit, print, or save as image files any game
> diagram.

Probably not exactly what you really want, but something that can
create a Shogi board configuration image is at
<URL:http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~jarlst/shogi/NSDB/submit-nsdb.html>.

This CGI script intended use is for members of Norsk Shogi to verify
their game scores in the PSN format before submitting to our database.
But it can output a postscript or GIF image of a given board
situation, and as such might help you.

Unfortunate it is a bit awkward to enter a complete gamescore listing
for just generating images of a board configuration. What might help
is the use of the FEN header, by which you can specify a complete
configuration on one line. Because of a "feature" in the program, you
always have to submit a "move", but this can be restricted to '1.' (or
'1...' for handicaps/gote to move).

Example, by entering the followin two lines in the text area:
[FEN "5B2g/5s1kl/5g3/9/8P/6N2/9/9/7+r1 0012001/T s 1"]
1.

and selecting 'GIF -- one image' at the bottom selection box, you
should receive an image of a tsume problem.


I hope this might be of any help to you.

Best regards Jarl Ove.

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