                        TrueType Font: CHESS ALFONSO-X

  The figures of this font have been taken from some photographs of the first
work dedicated to the theory of the chess  game  in  Western Europe.  It  was
published in Spain in the year 1283 under name  of  "Book of Chess, Diece and
Tables".  This famous manuscript was made  during  the  reign  of  Alfonso X,
called "The Wise".  In this  manuscript  the  modern  chess  pieces  had  the
following names:

                REY     - King             ALFERZA - Vizier
                ROQUE   - Rook             ALFIL   - Elephant 
                CABALLO - Horse            PEON    - Pawn

  The drawings was created in Corel Draw 3.0 and exported to TTF  format  in
Corel Draw 7.0.  I made the font in the  "Colegio La Salle de San Cristobal"
(La Salle School of San Cristobal), located in the pleasant mountains of the
Mayan World in the south of Mexico; in order to  expand  our  collection  of 
chess fonts. The font is freeware, I hope it is useful for the chess buddies.
If you want to repay us, you can send us some other fonts for creating chess
diagrams (we are collecting them). Your comments and suggestions would be
welcome; please send them to either of address that appear below.

  The font is installed in Windows, as in any other TTF  font.  It  will  be
helpful to you for making chess diagrams and figurine notation in  the  word
processors  which  are  run  under  Windows.  The  file  CHESALFO.DOC  which
accompanies this file is made on  Word 6.0  and  contain  a  sample  of  the
creation of diagrams in a word proccesor. You will not see the  board  until
the Chess Alfonso-X font is installed in your computer.  The distribution of
the figures on the keyboard is the same as in the  CHESS MARROQUIN  font, as
follows:


DIAGRAM BORDERS:
                                      SINGLE        DOUBLE       EXTRA *
       Top left corner                  1          !  or 033     a - A
       Top border                       2          "     034     
       Top right corner                 3          #     035     s - S
       Left border                      4          $     036    
       Right border                     5          %     037    
       Bottom left corner               7          /     047     d - D
       Bottom border                    8          (     040   
       Bottom right corner              9          )     041     f - F

BOARD POSITION ASSIGNMENTS:
                                    WHITE SQUARE         DARK SQUARE
       Squares                      [space] or * 042          +  043
       White pawn                        p                    P
       Black pawn                        o                    O
       White knight                      n                    N
       Black knight                      m                    M
       White bishop                      b                    B
       Black bishop                      v                    V
       White rook                        r                    R
       Black rook                        t                    T
       White queen                       q                    Q
       Black queen                       w                    W
       White king                        k                    K
       Black king                        l                    L

* The EXTRA keys contain round corners.  The keys  (x),  (X),  (.), and  (:)
  contain auxiliary symbols to indicate individual movements of the  pieces.

  The initial distribution of the pieces according to  Alfonso X's  book  is
identical to the modern positions.  But the black  pieces  were  represented
upside down (turned 180 grades with respect to the whites).  For this reason
in this font I have also put the black pieces turned 180 grades.

BLACK PIECES ASSIGNMENTS:
                                    WHITE SQUARE         DARK SQUARE
       Pawn                              i                    I
       Knight                            h                    H
       Bishop                            c                    C
       Rook                              y                    Y
       Queen                             e                    E
       King                              j                    J


NOTE: Also you find borders with the coordinates of chessboard.  For  simple
      borders, type the ASCII codes  from  0192  to  0207,  and  for  double
      borders from 0224 to 0239.  Don't forget to type [Alt]  and  the  ZERO
      which goes with each code to generate these characters. 
      
      The figurine notation pieces are in the ASCII codes from 0162 to 0167.
                          
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Thanks a lot to:
      ERIC BENTZEN
      http://home1.stofanet.dk/chess/homeeng.htm

      HANS BODLAENDER
      http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~hansb/d.chessvar/d.font/index.html

      SETEPHANE MOUCHEL
      http://www.europe-echecs.com/

for the space to my fonts in their web sites.


CIRCULO LASALLISTA DE AJEDREZ           ARMANDO HERNANDEZ MARROQUIN
Apartado Postal 168                   
San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas.    mquin@sancristobal.podernet.com.mx
29200 MEXICO                          
                                      
lasalle@sancristobal.podernet.com.mx    Mayo 10 de 1998.

