Originally posted by a4h4when you write a post, looketh downward. there you'll see the links:
I am sure this has been asked a million times but can anyone explain how to post diagrams and even the interactive diagrams?
Interactive=moving the pieces
Insert smiley
Insert link to a game
Insert board from FEN
Insert board from PGN
click one that seems appropriate to your needs.
Originally posted by a4h4Please post these* in 'Help' forum. FEN/PGN (of your games, assuming you're about to post your games) can be found from My Games page, you'll see that for every game there's an 'info' hyperlink (next to Last Move column).
How do I create FEN or PGN?
* i.e. questions regarding the site/assistance
Originally posted by a4h4make the game/position in any chess program, and save as pgn or fen. open it in a text editor and copy&paste here. (the pgn script here is a bit picky though, you often need to replace the line breaks with normal spaces to make it work.)
How do I create FEN or PGN?
this is what a fen looks like (opened into a text editor) for example:
rnbqkbnr/pp2pppp/3p4/2p5/4P3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq - 0 3
and this is what a pgn looks like:
[Event "Blitz:0'"]
[Site "Microsoft"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "e, Microsoft"]
[Black "Rybka 2.2n2 mp 32-bit"]
[Result "*"]
[PlyCount "4"]
[TimeControl "1"]
{512MB, Fritz9.ctg, SEACUCUMBERII} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 *
Forsyth-Edwards notation is quite easy.
k king
q queen
r rook
b bishop
n knight
p pawn
Capitalized K Q R B N P is for White pieces; lower-case k q r b n p is for Black pieces. The tricky part is that empty squares do not have an assigned letter, but are denoted by numbers. Two "blank" squares between two pieces is denoted as 2, etc. The position is built rank after rank, separated by forward slashes (/)
8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8 depicts a blank board.
Now if we put a Black Rook on a8, we get this:
r7/8/8/8/8/8/8/8
Now if we add a White Knight on b1, we get this:
r7/8/8/8/8/8/8/1N6
The full starting position is:
rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR
the position after 1. e4 is
rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR
etc. etc.
Here on RHP you can send a diagram by typing [fen ] "fen goes here" [/fen ]
One final thing is that a full fen ends with the side to move, castling rights and en passant rights, so after 1. e4 it would be:
rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq e3
b = black to move (otherwise w)
KQ = White can castle Kingside & Queenside
kq = Black can castle Kingside & Queenside
e3 = a pawn has just moved two squares
If we imagine that the Knights move out, the Rooks move back and forth, the position a few moves later would be:
rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w - -
first "-" = no castling rights
second "-" = no 2-step pawn move on the last move