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Wikipedia has a bunch of standard SVG files for chess pieces. That's where I got the current PNG files from, by converting those SVG files to PNG. But we should use the SVG files directly instead since they'll cooperate better with scaling, and they're much smaller text files rather than binary blobs.

Blocked on takikawa/racket-rsvg#7, which I think is just an issue of there not being a package that provides the pre-built binary rsvg library on macOS. Maybe. I'm not very familiar with the native library bits of Racket's package system.

I released a package yesterday called rchess, only to find this one a few hours later. I went back and rewrote parts of mine to depend on yours.

For one thing, thanks for making this! It's awesome.

Secondly, if you want me to change the name of mine, let me know. I had originally planned it to be more general, but I don't need it to be so general anymore, since chess already is.

For future reference, here's mine: https://github.com/srfoster/rchess

The chess-patch-apply function isn't implemented yet, even though the docs claim it is. Either it should be implemented or, if the implementation won't happen for a long time, the docs should be updated to mention that it's not yet implemented.