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Chess Boards and Sets
- Merida by Armando Hernández Marroquin, the orange variant is original, and the shaded variant is from lichess.
- Alpha is from lichess.
- Kosal, by Philatype is from here.
- The Wikimedia sets are from here.
- The Fulmene Makruk pieces are from here.
- The Maurizio Monge sets are from his website.
- The Thinking Machine set is by Brer Rabbit and inspired by the Thinking Machine.
- The 3D sets are by James Clarke.
- The SchemingMind Classic board and set are based on the original images used on the site since 2002, the pieces were originally based on images by Andrew Templeton for Palview; the current piece set is almost identical but at a more suitable resolution for the modern board and has been taken from the lichess 'Companion' pieces.
- Leipzig was designed by Armando Marroquin in 1998; based on Henry Caslon's Two-Line Pica Chessmen, from his 1841 Specimen of Types. Downloaded from here.
- The Old Book board and pieces are taken from The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chess Fundamentals, by José Raúl Capablanca.
- The rubber duck piece used for Duck Chess is by gnokii and taken from openclipart.org. This image was used with the 3D sets.
- To make the Cookie pieces, we took photographs of Pepperidge Farm Chessmen Butter Cookies; the black pieces are just the same images with the colour levels adjusted (unfortunately we couldn't find chocolate chessmen cookies).
Sound Effects
Other Images
- The images of Alice by John Tenniel are scanned from Lewis Carol's Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass.
- The flag icons are from famfamfam.
Open Source or Free Software
Protocols
- XFCC XML web services for correspondence chess, by Martin Bennedik