How to use ?

Though I tried to make the app as self explanatory as I could, nothing replaces a good old readme ;)

This app is a simple text editor that will turn the FEN formulas you append in the text editor to actual chessboards pictures when you click on Export PDF 🖨

All the features from a usual text editor (font size, colors, layout...) are also available!

FEN, PGN, what are these?

Depending on your familiarity with chess on computers, you may already know these files.

A FEN (for Forsyth–Edwards Notation) string looks like this: rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1 It describes the state of the chessboard (with castling information and the player turn). However, it does not describe the sequence of moves that led to this position.

On the other hand a PGN (for Portable Game Notation) string looks like: 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Nf3

Loading and saving files

Make sure to save your work as often as possible! When you click on Save 💾 a small file (HTML) will be downloaded on your machine (usually, the file will be called mychessnotebook (n).html where n is incremented after each save).

If you want to restart from this file, click Load 📁 a file browser will be opened and just choose your latest notebook.

Note that refreshing the page will also refresh the text edition zone, so do save your work often!

Finally, if you want to print your newly written chess repertoire, just click on Export PDF 🖨 and save the file!

Features

If you want to insert a chessboard image in your document, just add a line, starting with FEN: and the FEN formula of the chessboard you want to represent! The default document in the page already shows this feature in action.