Chess from above


Chess by by NguyenDai available for download under a Creative Commons license.

An interesting perspective.

Mate in two

The Blogspot Chess Game Viewer can also be used to display chess puzzles of which the solution has to remain hidden as long as the right answer hasn't been given.

As an example a Mate in two problem. After five attempts or after making the right move the solution will become visible. You can make a move by clicking at a piece followed by clicking the target square.



The code in this post used to display this mate in two diagram will be shown in a couple of days.

Check Mate


Chess mate, Tel Aviv 2006 by Ran Z
All sizes of this photo are available for download at his photo stream under a Creative Commons license.

Chess Gadgets

The previous posts showed that it is possible to publish chess games on a blogspot/blogger site. Last week I received a request to help in creating some gadgets with the same purpose. These can be used to publish chess games on a site that is hosted on Google sites (and some other web sites).
The combined efforts (of me and the admin of lessons.chessteacherlessons.com) have resulted in two gadgets that are demonstrated on this Chess Gadgets page.

I still prefer the publishing method for the Blogspot sites, partly because of the limitations, but it's a nice alternative.