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Greg Strong wrote on Fri, May 1, 2020 10:43 PM UTC:I only really need a silver for now. I don't like using the wizard since that already has a different meaning and isn't round to indicate it is a single space mover.
Do you think either of my silvers are ok for now?
Here's what I made tonight.
Instead of hand drawing them like I did before, I found appropriate fonts, because Ultimate Paint, which I still use, does anti-aliasing for fonts but not for regular drawing. I used y from Webdings for the circle and cut out the bar in the middle. I used Z from Wingdings for the moon. Since it was very thin, I doubled it up with a slightly smaller moon. I also deleted the star, since it was a Muslim symbol, and made the moon a little less pointy at the top. For the dot in the Gold, I used l from Wingdings.
H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, May 2, 2020 06:35 AM UTC:
I meant the leftmost of these two, but never mind. The alchemy symbols are more in line with some other piece themes.
Greg Strong wrote on Sat, May 2, 2020 03:10 PM UTC:Thanks Fergus. These look nice, but unfortunately they do not match the existing pieces:
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game%3DShatranj+Kamil+%2864%29%26settings%3Dabstract
They could be reduced, but I think they will still look out-of-place if the outsides aren't the same as the pawn and ferz. So I took your anti-aliased crescent, reduced the size a little, and placed it inside the existing shell. So the crecents are anti-aliased but the outside isn't:
Does this work?
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You can use the Coin and the Wizard until I make specialty pieces. The Coin looks like the alchemical symbol for gold, and the Wizard uses a crescent moon, which is the alchemical symbol for silver. I have based Gold and Silver Generals in the Motif set on the same symbols. I may try to redo the coin with better anti-aliasing and make a silver piece with a more prominent crescent moon.