How to post a Chess FEN! (Diagram)
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How to post a Chess FEN! (Diagram)
[fen]rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1[/fen]
Finally, FENs are available!!
Post your FEN using the following syntax:
When I have more time, I will see about creating a button for it to group with the other buttons such as QUOTE, CODE, LIST, etc.
Happy FEN posting!
Finally, FENs are available!!
Post your FEN using the following syntax:
When I have more time, I will see about creating a button for it to group with the other buttons such as QUOTE, CODE, LIST, etc.
Happy FEN posting!
Last edited by Enrico L. Carrisco on Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:21 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: How to post a Chess FEN! (Diagram)
EXCELLENT WORK ENRICO!!Enrico L. Carrisco wrote:[fen]rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1[/fen]
Finally, FENs are available!!
Post your FEN using the following syntax:
When I have more time, I will see about creating a button for it to group with the other buttons such as QUOTE, CODE, LIST, etc.
Happy FEN posting!
Best Regards!
Steve
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Re: How to post a Chess FEN! (Diagram)
This is nice but still a very important thing is missing:Enrico L. Carrisco wrote: Finally, FENs are available!!
Post your FEN using the following syntax:
When I have more time, I will see about creating a button for it to group with the other buttons such as QUOTE, CODE, LIST, etc.
-How the reader will get the fen from the picture to import/paste it in his Chess GUI?
When you see a fen you almost all times want to copy it to a Chess GUI to analyze it. But with the picture only this is not possible and you have to copy manually the position which is extremely inconvenient.
There is the other solution right now to select "View Image" in Firefox and then in the new page it appears you can copy a kind of FEN from the address bar. But this is not convenient also.....
You should make something like CCC: Have the FEN above the picture of the FEN in order the reader to be able to copy then FEN....
For example:
[fen]5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1[/fen]
[fen]5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1[/fen]
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Re: How to post a Chess FEN! (Diagram)
hi GeorgeGeorge Tsavdaris wrote:This is nice but still a very important thing is missing:Enrico L. Carrisco wrote: Finally, FENs are available!!
Post your FEN using the following syntax:
When I have more time, I will see about creating a button for it to group with the other buttons such as QUOTE, CODE, LIST, etc.
-How the reader will get the fen from the picture to import/paste it in his Chess GUI?
When you see a fen you almost all times want to copy it to a Chess GUI to analyze it. But with the picture only this is not possible and you have to copy manually the position which is extremely inconvenient.
There is the other solution right now to select "View Image" in Firefox and then in the new page it appears you can copy a kind of FEN from the address bar. But this is not convenient also.....
You should make something like CCC: Have the FEN above the picture of the FEN in order the reader to be able to copy then FEN....
For example:
[fen]5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1[/fen]
[fen]5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1[/fen]
yes it would be nice to have the Fen notation on the top of the diagram but until it can be set up that way ..for now
you can click on "Quote" on any post and then the full Fen description will appear for cutting and pasting
i use IE 7 and it works perfectly that way
Best
Steve
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Re: How to post a Chess FEN! (Diagram)
Hello George.George Tsavdaris wrote:This is nice but still a very important thing is missing:Enrico L. Carrisco wrote: Finally, FENs are available!!
Post your FEN using the following syntax:
When I have more time, I will see about creating a button for it to group with the other buttons such as QUOTE, CODE, LIST, etc.
-How the reader will get the fen from the picture to import/paste it in his Chess GUI?
When you see a fen you almost all times want to copy it to a Chess GUI to analyze it. But with the picture only this is not possible and you have to copy manually the position which is extremely inconvenient.
There is the other solution right now to select "View Image" in Firefox and then in the new page it appears you can copy a kind of FEN from the address bar. But this is not convenient also.....
You should make something like CCC: Have the FEN above the picture of the FEN in order the reader to be able to copy then FEN....
For example:
[fen]5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1[/fen]
[fen]5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1[/fen]
I agree, I missed the bill on that. I will look into it when I am back in town.
For now, it is probably easier to just paste the same FEN without using the [] identifiers. Hence:
5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1
[fen]5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1[/fen]
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Pasting FEN, without identifiers, into a GUI
I tried just copying
5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w
and pasting into into the game notation window of Ole's Sigma Chess 6.1.5, but it didn't work.
However, when I tried the same thing with Rolf Exner's ExaChess 3.1.3, it worked perfectly. From ExaChess, it takes just a few clicks to copy the position as a game and paste it into Sigma Chess.
If anyone knows an even easier way to get the naked FEN line into Sigma Chess, please let us know.
5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w
and pasting into into the game notation window of Ole's Sigma Chess 6.1.5, but it didn't work.
However, when I tried the same thing with Rolf Exner's ExaChess 3.1.3, it worked perfectly. From ExaChess, it takes just a few clicks to copy the position as a game and paste it into Sigma Chess.
If anyone knows an even easier way to get the naked FEN line into Sigma Chess, please let us know.
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Re: Pasting FEN, without identifiers, into a GUI
For one thing, your fen is defective. You MUST add the castling rights and en passant square, '- -' in this case, to the end.Jack Clark wrote:I tried just copying
5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w
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Re: Pasting FEN, without identifiers, into a GUI
Yes,Jack Clark wrote:I tried just copying
5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w
and pasting into into the game notation window of Ole's Sigma Chess 6.1.5, but it didn't work.
However, when I tried the same thing with Rolf Exner's ExaChess 3.1.3, it worked perfectly. From ExaChess, it takes just a few clicks to copy the position as a game and paste it into Sigma Chess.
If anyone knows an even easier way to get the naked FEN line into Sigma Chess, please let us know.
Just copy the fen and in Sigma Chess go to Edit Menu and select Paste Position.
or
just press Apple+Option+v.
However, you must take a valid FEN like:
5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - -
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Copying a FEN into Sigma Chess 6.1.5
Brilliant, Andreas!
Worked perfectly--once I started using valid FED lines. Thanks for pointing out that I hadn't been.
Worked perfectly--once I started using valid FED lines. Thanks for pointing out that I hadn't been.
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Re: How to post a Chess FEN! (Diagram)
Steve, you can also right-click on the diagram, scroll down to properties, click on it and copy the fen from there.Steve B wrote:hi GeorgeGeorge Tsavdaris wrote:This is nice but still a very important thing is missing:Enrico L. Carrisco wrote: Finally, FENs are available!!
Post your FEN using the following syntax:
When I have more time, I will see about creating a button for it to group with the other buttons such as QUOTE, CODE, LIST, etc.
-How the reader will get the fen from the picture to import/paste it in his Chess GUI?
When you see a fen you almost all times want to copy it to a Chess GUI to analyze it. But with the picture only this is not possible and you have to copy manually the position which is extremely inconvenient.
There is the other solution right now to select "View Image" in Firefox and then in the new page it appears you can copy a kind of FEN from the address bar. But this is not convenient also.....
You should make something like CCC: Have the FEN above the picture of the FEN in order the reader to be able to copy then FEN....
For example:
[fen]5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1[/fen]
[fen]5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1[/fen]
yes it would be nice to have the Fen notation on the top of the diagram but until it can be set up that way ..for now
you can click on "Quote" on any post and then the full Fen description will appear for cutting and pasting
i use IE 7 and it works perfectly that way
Best
Steve
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I allways like as an added nicety to add the fen below the picture which saves the reader the trouble of figuring it out. It really is no extra work in your posts:Steve B wrote:Thanks Terry
Nice Shortcut
There Certainly does seem to be more then one way to
Skin A Fen Regards
Steve
5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1
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i guess you mean in the main game thread?Dark Horse wrote:why are the diagrams always from Black's point of view ?
right now it is white to move so its from Whites point of view
by changing the "w"(undelined below in the fen string) to a "b" ..the diagram changes
so here is the fen string for the diagram now without the fen quotes
2rqkbnr/1b1p1ppp/p1n1p3/1p6/4PB2/2NB1N2/PP3PPP/R2Q1RK1 w k - 4 9
string for black from bottom:
2rqkbnr/1b1p1ppp/p1n1p3/1p6/4PB2/2NB1N2/PP3PPP/R2Q1RK1 b k - 4 9
diagram
[fen]2rqkbnr/1b1p1ppp/p1n1p3/1p6/4PB2/2NB1N2/PP3PPP/R2Q1RK1 b k - 4 9[/fen]
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