This is a (fancy?) HTML/javascript board for chess and checkers.
It can show a position (using FEN), replay a chess game (from PGN) or let you select valid moves. It can also forward your move to a javascript helper for online games (waiting for some server-side work)
See how it behaves in the demo page
- It started as a fork of jchess but I ended up rewriting everything but (parts of) the PGN parser.
- Piece images come from Wikimedia.
- It was inspired by the look of Chess By Post. The PGN parser was fixed to handle CBP's PGN export.
- Fix corner cases where move selection will not work
- Detect and report check, checkmate and stalemate
- Build a light server (using node.js??) for actual online game
- Position editor mode
- PGN export
- Show comments in replay mode
- Extend it to play Go and reversi
- actually enjoy playing board games in the future