Well, on my system your tex files compiles o.k. So probably there's something wrong with your installation ...
\listfiles shows on my system: *File List* article.cls 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class size10.clo 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option) times.sty 2005/04/12 PSNFSS-v9.2a (SPQR) a4wide.sty 1994/08/30 a4.sty 2004/04/15 v1.2g A4 based page layout chess.sty fontenc.sty t1enc.def 2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX file t1ptm.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for T1/ptm. *********** My log files also states after loading chess.sty: FMi updated chess version 96/07/21!!! As I can see chess inputs style files from /chess12/inputs/ which contains totally outdated style files. They should be taken from a up-to-date tex installation. Nevertheless I strongly encourage you to use skak: \listfiles \documentclass[twocolumn]{article} \usepackage{times} \usepackage{skak} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \setlength{\columnsep}{7mm} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \begin{document} {\bfseries $\circ$ Alekhine, Alexander\\ $\bullet$ Gregory, B.\\ St Petersburg nt (7) \\ St Petersburg\\ 1909 \hfill 1-0 \hfill C28\\ } \newgame \mainline{1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nc6 4.d3 Bb4 5.Bg5 Nd4 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 Ne6 8.h4 h6 9.Bd2 d6 10.Qf3 Bd7 11.g4 Qe7 12.g5 Ng8 13.Rb1 Bc6 14.Nh3 Kd7 15.Qg4 Rf8 16.f4 f5 17.exf5 Bxh1 18.fxe6+ Kc8 19.Qg1 c6 20.Qxa7 c5 21.d4 Qc7 22. d5 Ne7 } \showboard \mainline{23.Rxb7 Qxb7 24.Ba6 Bxd5 25.c4 Qxa6 26.Qxa6+ Bb7 27.Qxd6 Nc6 28. gxh6 gxh6 29.f5 Rxf5 30.Qd7+ Kb8 31.e7 Nxe7 32.Qxe7 Rhf8 33.Qd6+ Ka8 34. Bxh6 R8f6 35.Qd8+ Ka7 36.Be3 Rf3 37.Bxc5+ Ka6 38.Qb8} {\bf 1-0} \begin{center} \hrule \end{center} \end{document} Best regards, Ulrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users