The Real World

NYC - Battery Park City: Nelson A. Rockefeller Park - The Real World by wallyg

Improved version of blogspot PGN Viewer

I have added a White circle at the upper right corner to indicate that it's White's turn to move. The circle will be black if it's Black's turn to move. I also added some figures and letters at the sides of the board. Both indications are optional.

All the needed JavaScript is still incorporated within the blogger/blogspot template.

This is still a static diagram, but I am going to extend it to a complete game viewer.

Chess cake

To celebrate the new start, we would like to have some chess cake.

Chess cake by clarescupcakes.co.uk on Flickr

Displaying a diagram

Looking back at all the Chess Publishing possibilities that we have evaluated in the past they all have one major disadvantage in common: they depend on files on other sites. With some of the discussed methods these files could be our own, which assures that they probably don't disappear without our knowledge.

Therefore the requirement that the method to publish chess games has to be incorporated within the template is a raher important one.

The initial position. At first sight this may look like a picture, but it is in fact a function that creates the diagram based on a FEN-string.

The used code in the post itself is:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">Fen2Page ('rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/ PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR');< /script>

In addition I have added some alternative content in case JavaScript was disabled.

I am going to use this as a starting point to develop something that makes it possible to publish chess games on blogspot without the need for other hosts.

A new start

A nice chess set, (cc) striatic on Flickr

I have moved this site to its new home (ChessPublishing.blogspot.com) and have changed the theme. It's time for a new start and I am going to continue my search for a real good method to publish chess games on blogspot/blogger.