                          TrueType Font CHESS MAYA
                           Update: August 8, 1998

  I have designed this font to create diagrams  in  chess  publications  for
children.  The figures follow the  silhouette  of the  traditional  Staunton
pieces, and therefore are easily related to them.  The drawings was  created
in Corel Draw 3.0 and exported to TTF format in Corel Draw 7.0.  I made  the
font in the  "Colegio La Salle de San Cristobal"  (La Salle  School  of  San
Cristobal), located in the mountains  of the south of Mexico,  part  of  the
region where the Mayan civilization developed.  The font is freeware, I hope
it is useful for you.  If you want to repay us, you can send us  some  other
fonts for creating chess diagrams  (we are collecting them).  Your  comments
and suggestions would be welcome; please send them to either of address that
appear below.

Files in MAYA__TT.ZIP:
         LEEME__Y.TXT     This file in English language.
         README_Y.TXT     This file.
         MAYAFONT.TTF     CHESS MAYA font - Ver. 2.0
         CHESMAYA.DOC     Sample and keymap.

  The font is installed in Windows, as in any other TTF  font.  It  will  be
helpful to you for making chess diagrams and figurine notation in  the  word
processors  which  are  run  under  Windows.  The  file  CHESMAYA.DOC  which
accompanies this file is made on  Word 6.0,  and contains a  sample  of  the 
creation of diagrams in a word proccesor and a keymap of this font. You will
not see these characters until the  'Chess Maya'  font is installed in  your
computer.  The distribution of the figures on the keyboard is the same as in
the CHESS MARROQUIN font, as follows:


DIAGRAM BORDERS:
                                      SINGLE        DOUBLE       EXTRA *
       Top left corner                  1          !  or 033     a - A
       Top border                       2          "     034     
       Top right corner                 3          #     035     s - S
       Left border                      4          $     036    
       Right border                     5          %     037    
       Bottom left corner               7          /     047     d - D
       Bottom border                    8          (     040   
       Bottom right corner              9          )     041     f - F

BOARD POSITION ASSIGNMENTS:
                                    WHITE SQUARE         DARK SQUARE
       Squares                      [space] or * 042          +  043
       White pawn                        p                    P
       Black pawn                        o                    O
       White knight                      n                    N
       Black knight                      m                    M
       White bishop                      b                    B
       Black bishop                      v                    V
       White rook                        r                    R
       Black rook                        t                    T
       White queen                       q                    Q
       Black queen                       w                    W
       White king                        k                    K
       Black king                        l                    L

* The EXTRA keys contain round corners.  The keys  (x),  (X),  (.), and  (:)
  contain auxiliary symbols to indicate individual movements of the  pieces.

NOTE: Also you find borders with the coordinates of chessboard.  For  simple
      borders, type the ASCII codes  from  0192  to  0207,  and  for  double
      borders from 0224 to 0239.  Don't forget to type [Alt]  and  the  ZERO
      which goes with each code to generate these characters. 
      
      The figurine notation pieces are in the ASCII codes from 0162 to 0167.

      I recommend you to print the .DOC file and see the complete keymap.
                          
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Thanks a lot to:
      ERIC BENTZEN
      http://members.xoom.com/ebhkp/homeeng.htm

      HANS BODLAENDER
      http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~hansb/d.chessvar/d.font/index.html

      SETEPHANE MOUCHEL
      http://www.europe-echecs.com/

for the space to my fonts in their web sites.


CIRCULO LASALLISTA DE AJEDREZ           ARMANDO HERNANDEZ MARROQUIN
Apartado Postal 168                   
San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas.    mquin@sancristobal.podernet.com.mx
29200 MEXICO                          
                                        Release:   November 2, 1997.
lasalle@mundomaya.com.mx                Update:    August 8, 1998.

