                          TrueType Font CHESS MARK
                           Update: August 8, 1998

  The figures of this font are stylized and their silhouette turns out to be
quite simple.  Its design is based on some publications from  the 70s.  This
design is a option for  making  modern  chess  diagrams.  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 mountains of 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 firends.  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.

Files in MARK__TT.ZIP:
         LEEME__K.TXT     This file in English language.
         README_K.TXT     This file.
         MARKFONT.TTF     CHESS MARK font - Ver. 1.1
         CHESMARK.DOC     Sample and keymap.

  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  CHESMARK.DOC  which
accompanies this file is made on  Word 6.0,  and contains a  sample  of  the 
creation of diagrams in a word proccesor and a keymap of this font. You will
not see these characters until the  'Chess Mark'  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.

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.

      I recommend you to print the .DOC file and see the complete keymap.
                          
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Thanks a lot to:
      ERIC BENTZEN
      http://members.xoom.com/ebhkp/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.

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 CIRCULO LASALLISTA DE AJEDREZ          ARMANDO HERNANDEZ MARROQUIN
 Apartado Postal 168                  
 San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas.   mquin@sancristobal.podernet.com.mx
 29200 MEXICO                         
                                        Release:   November 20, 1997.
 lasalle@mundomaya.com.mx               Update:    August 8, 1998.
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