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To customise the look of Palview is easy. A simple and powerful way is to make a new board background, which you can do in minutes. A new piece set can't be made in minutes and isn't exactly easy, but still easier than forging Mona Lisa. Somewhere in between is a new control panel. On this page we'll put up new designs as they come, and if you want to share your creations with other Palview users send a mail to

Last update 20.10.2002

New Flags

NIR - Norther Ireland SCO - Scotland WAL - Wales
These new flags have been added to the download file, but if you have already installed Palview3 it will suffice to download the updated Palview3 executable and add the flags in your flags folder. More details on the download page.

Board Backgrounds

    A 58*58 and 48*48 board background by Alan Cowderoy. Alan's own site Chess Graphics is the Mecca of chess graphics.


    A 58*58 board used by Corby Chess Club.


    A 58*58 board background by Anonymous.


Control Panels

conpanel1     Control panel by Søren Søgaard used on his page http://seagaard.dk/viewer.
conlilac     Control panel used by Corby Chess Club.
conpanel3     Søren Søgaard's control panel modified by Eric Bentzen. Everything except the buttons is transparent, and it's a gif image, so you'll need to change the extension "jpg" to "gif" in the html file.


Piece Sets

Azauir     Piece set by Anonymous. The quality of this sample suffers from compression. Download Azauir Piece Set

Adventurer     Piece set by Armando Marroquin. Based on his font Chess Adventurer. 24x24 and 29x29 pixels.
Download Adventurer piece set.

Harlequin     Piece set by Armando Marroquin. Based on his font Chess Adventurer. 24x24 and 29x29 pixels.
Download Harlequin piece set.

Lucena     Piece set by Armando Marroquin. Based on his font Chess Adventurer. 24x24 and 29x29 pixels.
Download Lucena piece set.


Miscellaneous

    Animated gifs created by Patrick Buchmann, who use Palview on his page Cercle d'Echecs "Le Fou du Roi".



    Some from Corby Chess Club and some modified by Loïc Magnin.


Icons by Mats Winther

Download the icons. The image here is a gif representation - the icons can be used on your own PC and will not display in a webbrowser unless you convert to some other image format like *.gif.


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