Hi! Maybe you also had this "problem" from time to time: you wanted to show a postion to a friend but he does not have a chess program/set at hand. Or you find a set of FEN positions somewhere and want to look them up, but there's no Scid available.
In ICCF forum there was recently a hint to a pretty good (web based) diagram generator that could help out here. It can be found at http://webchess.freehostia.com/diag/index.php and be used interactively. Additionally, with FireFox one could easily set up a bookmark with the following contents: Name : Share Position URL : http://webchess.freehostia.com/diag/chessdiag.php?theme=smart&size=large&fen=%s Keyword: fen Now, if you have the FEN at hand you can just enter into the URL bar fen <your fen string> and FireFox will show the position as a diagram. From scid this is only a Edit/Copy Position away. :) Shortcuts like that are pretty cool for almost any web form you use freqently. They're even faster than search plugins, and as a librarian I use such things regularily for catalogue searches. (Hint: you can enter the URL-bar by ctrl-l ;) For the "experts": you can surely play arround withe various styles and so on and set theme/size parameters accordingly. Addtionally, the generator allows for quite a lot of other options you can easily extract by interactively setting up the board. The above URL is just pretty short and shows a (IMHO) nice, simple and clean diagram. If entered into FireFox URL-bar one does not have to care about escaping spaces and so on, of course one should for adding links in webpages. -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
