Features, limitations and bugs
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the pgn4web project
Key features
- display chess games form PGN files on websites and blogs, without the need of much knowledge of HTML or any other technicality
- supports live broadcast of games
- interactive browsing of game variations and comments
- shortcut keys for navigating through the game, for selecting games and much more; also uses chessboard squares as input buttons
- fully customizable display: each item (board, button bar, game selection menu, PGN header info, game text, game comment and more) can be displayed (or hidden) at pleasure in your html file
- support different bitmaps for chess pieces (even custom bitmaps) and different chessboard sizes
- uses figurine fonts for chess moves and chess informant style symbols for comments and annotations
- provides a very simple board generator web tool helping you adding chess games to your website or blog without any html/javascript coding
- integrated with popular blog platforms (such as blogger and wordpress.org), forum platforms (such as simplemachines and phpBB) and portal platforms (such as joomla, drupal and mediawiki); more details at the platforms integration wiki page
- integrated with HTML5 video and YouTube video
- supports Chess960 (a.k.a. Fischer random chess) games
Limitations
- only one chessboard for html file (use inline frames if you need to display more in the same view)
Known bugs
User feedback
Please email the pgn4web project your feedback, suggestions and bug reports. Please send for review any PGN file that pgn4web fails parsing correctly.