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Icon Clearinghouse 1. A collection of chess icons for all to use in Interactive Diagrams and Game Courier setups.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Oct 26, 2023 06:12 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 02:28 PM:

..., but I've had issues with trying to replace files with new files of the same name; the old ones stay around for some reason. And no, flushing my cache, or even clearing it out completely, doesn't change things.

The problem is that we access the CVP website through CloudFlare, which is another level of caching, which users cannot flush. They can bypass it, though, by appending '?nocache=true' to the URL of the image. But in any case this should not stop you from making the replacement; eventually things disappear even from the CloudFlare cache.

I wasn't even aware that there were SVG images available here, other than the basic Alfaerie.

Almost all 'chess fonts' are available as SVG (e.g. from the PyChess GitHub page); XBoard natively also uses SVG for the pieces. Most fonts only feature the 6 orthodox pieces, though, in a white and black version. XBoard supports many fairy pieces, though (66 icons in total), and for Motif and Magnetic Fergus created some combination icons. I did convert all Utrecht icons I encountered to SVG. But since Utrecht was a font intended for rendering at 35x35, the images are often ugly.

I need to find that Utrecht Knight-Bishop and Knight-Rook; I'm surprised that I don't have those in hand.

50x50 PNG renderings of the SVG are available at https://www.chessvariants.com/graphics.dir/utrechtPNG/ .