It is unbeatable for making quick diagrams and even saves you a step or two over Adobe's Photoshop (which is a great progam and very useful, but a lot more capaility than you need for making chess diagrams). Basically, SnagIt allows you to take a picture of any size of anything you can see on your computer screen and then immediately turn it into an image file in. Rather easy and totally free.įor those of you willing to spend a little money, and who would like to have a quick method of posting chess diagrams online, I recommend the wonderful SnagIt program from TechSmith. You now have an image file of your diagram to upload to your Blog. Bitmap images are better for text applications such as Word.ĥc) Once you have made your choices, press "Save" Some programs have trouble understanding spaces in file names. DO NOT USE ANY SPACES OR UNUSUAL CHARACTERS IN YOUR FILE NAME. I suggest you save it to the Desktop or to your "My Pictures" folder in "My Documents." Title it by the name of the opponents and the number move (if you intend to create more than one diagram from the game). jpg file showing the position as follows:ĥa) Choose from the top menu "Position">"Export">"as graphics"ĥb) A window will appear for you to give the file a name and a type and to choose the location to save it.
The Perfect Totally Free Diagram Solutionġ) Download Arena Chess (Go to the main page at and click on "Arena Downloads" and choose the version you want I recommend Set Up 2, which comes with free analysis engines).Ģ) Go through the Set Up Wizard to load the program on your computer.ģ) Change the Appearance of the board to fit the colors and look you want for your diagrams (go to "Options">"Apearance" and play around with the options offered).Ĥ) Set up your game or position - or import a PGN file to play through - until you reach the position you wish to diagram.ĥ) Now create a. Here are three solutions of various costs: But if you are willing to spend some money, the $40 solution is still better.
Best of all, it is simple and it is free. I think I came up with the perfect solution for him. I posted a comment telling him how and realized only later that it was a bit too technical and that I basically had recommended a $40 solution when he did not want to spend a dime.
I saw that Qaundoman had posted a question about how to put diagrams onto his blog.
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