Chess Game and Diagram Viewer
After a search for a suitable chess game viewer which was the initial goal of this website I started to create a new Chess Game Viewer. These efforts have resulted in both a Chess diagram viewer as well as a Chess game viewer.
The code for these viewers is still under development, but both can already be used. A link back to this site is appreciated.
If you want to use these viewers first have a look at how to configure the FEN viewer. If everything works fine then configure the Chess game viewer.
Please note that it isn't necessary to use the coded moves anymore, because the viewer is able to generate them, but you can still use them to improve performance (and for complex games).
The game viewer can be used for chess games, but also for chess puzzles, like a mate in two problem and it is possible to use NAG symbols.
It's also rather easy to configure the viewers. You can use your own chess board images or your own piece set.
It is possible to host everything on your own site even if you use blogspot. The previous two non-photo posts explain how to use the images uploaded by blogspot and how you can include the JavaScript in your own template.
Please have a look at some of the previous posts to get a better idea about the possibilities of these viewers and let me know if you have more unfulfilled wishes.
Tony
16 July 2010 at 13:46
Hi really like your FEN viewer. Excuse my ignorance but I can't seem to figure out how to get text around the diagram. Am I missing something silly. Your help would be appreciated.
Chess Teacher
17 July 2010 at 04:53
Please note the difference between the FEN viewer and the Game viewer on this site.
At the moment it isn't possible to get text around the diagram with the FEN viewer. You can use the Game viewer for this kind of things.
However it will be rather easy for me to also add this to the FEN viewer.
Rauan Sagit
10 April 2011 at 02:54
Game viewer! Hello, we previously had contact, I am using game viewer on http://chess-team-viking-swe.blogspot.com/. I recently published a commented game, but some of the variations are wrong because the pieces do not move where they should. Could you have a look at this post? http://chess-team-viking-swe.blogspot.com/2011/04/lars-karlsson-2475-sergej-ivanov-2535.html
Could it be that there are too many comments? Or could it be something else? See for example the (9...Ne4 !?) moment when the knight stays on f6. Thanks in advance!
Chess Teacher
10 April 2011 at 07:34
@rauan0company
I have looked at this post and saw the problem. I will try to solve it in a future version. In the meantime I suggest to also use the coded moves (as generated by Palview) for these complex games.
Chess Teacher
13 April 2011 at 10:25
A new version has been published that solves the mentioned problem.
Rauan Sagit
14 April 2011 at 00:21
Hi! After you released the new version, the old version published games stopped working. So, did you post how to re-configure to have the latest version? If not, could you post the instructions somewhere? I had a quick look around and did not find anything. Thanks a bunch!
Chess Teacher
14 April 2011 at 08:58
@rauan0company
I'll see that you use your own domain to store the gv.js file.
In order to use the new version you only have to replace this file with the new one.
Rauan Sagit
15 April 2011 at 08:04
Oh yes indeed, I was using a local gv.js file, you are right. Now I am using your link directly, so that the gv.js file is always up to date! And this also facilitates debugging for you! So ... with the latest version ... the script gets stuck on line 192:
{A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: ...gv.js:192}
Could you have a look at this? Thanks a bunch. (http://chess-team-viking-swe.blogspot.com/)
Chess Teacher
15 April 2011 at 09:27
I tried to have a look, but I was unable to load the site.
Rauan Sagit
15 April 2011 at 09:30
Mhm. I think this is because some browsers simply fail to load the page, while firefox reports that the script is not loading and asks whether to stop the script or to continue the script. Probably this chess game I uploaded is just too complicated and this somehow overloads the java script. This is my best guess.
Chess Teacher
15 April 2011 at 09:59
It's just that I haven't tested the new script thoroughly enough :-(
I have undone the changes and will try to improve the code generation.
For complex games I advise to use the coded moves from palview.
Chess Teacher
16 April 2011 at 08:23
I think that the problem has been solved and hope that I didn't introduce new problems. It seems that the current version has no problems with the complex game on your site, but for complex games I still advice to use the coded moves.
Stirling Chess Club
22 October 2012 at 14:25
Hi
I really like this viewer, and would like to share a couple of things I came across, just in case it helps others.
When initially entering a game, I found moves were printed in black text at the bottom of the game, and the game stopped at a certain point. I also found a game that stopped at a certain point and showed the move in green text. Both of these were resolved by the same trick - specfiying the source square fully (eg N5h4 had to be specified as Nf5-h4).
If you could offer some advice ona problem I'm having now with promoted pieces, I'd be very grateful. Please see http://stirlingchessclub.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/games-from-grangemouth-match.html The game plays fine up until move 45, when it just stops. I can't see anything wrong with the move.
Thanks
Graham
Chess Teacher
23 October 2012 at 10:22
@Graham
It was a bug and I have solved it.
You can see on your site that now everything is OK.
However the code generation is still not very robust. To be sure you can use the coded moves generated by PalView.
Stirling Chess Club
27 October 2012 at 14:36
Brilliant. Thanks!
Graham
Jan Krans-Plaisier
1 November 2012 at 04:33
I also had a problem: with rooks on f1 and d2, Rdd1 was still interpreted as if it were Rfd1. R2d1 did not help, I had to enter Rd2-d1 to make it work.
Chess Teacher
1 November 2012 at 11:39
@Jan Krans
Can you provide a link to the problem game?
Jan Krans-Plaisier
1 November 2012 at 16:11
See http://jkschaaktest.blogspot.de/2012/11/geen-partij.html. White's 23th move. I do not have the means (no Windows computer) to produce the Palview coded moves, so this is what happens to the PGN.
Chess Teacher
3 November 2012 at 04:00
@Jan Krans
Solved.
I think that both R2d1 as well as Rdd1 can be used now.
I still have to review the knight moves.
Jan Krans-Plaisier
3 November 2012 at 04:38
Thank you! It looks good, and it really important for me to be able to work without the Palview codes moves.
T. Hansen
25 January 2013 at 00:49
Hi!
I think I got the Game viewer to work (patzerville.blogspot.com), and now I need to enter the games :) Is there any way to add comments after moves, and variations? All so it looks "natural"?
TIA
Chess Teacher
25 January 2013 at 10:32
Yes, http://chesspublishing.blogspot.com/2009/11/smothered-mate.html gives you an indication of some of the possibilities. You are able to use html within the comments. The used code of the smothered mate example can be found in http://chesspublishing.blogspot.com/2009/11/code-of-smothered-mate.html