New ChessFlash Release
Update April 17, 2009 : New and simplified publishing option is now available. Just paste your PGN data into the form, click preview and copy-n-paste the output into blogger or your web page. You no longer need to have an account at the ChessFlash website, you don't need to login, and there is no need to upload your PGN file. Just paste-n-go! This publishing option is new, please let us know if you run into any problems. I have tested it lightly from Windows Vista-64 for Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 beta, FireFox 3.08, FireFox 3.1 beta 3, Chrome 1.0.154 Opera 9.64 and Safari 4 beta and from Windows XP-32 with Internet Explorer 7 and FireFox 3.08.
Try it at http://chessflash.com/chessflash.html.
Update April 13, 2009 : Version 2.06 just released adds the pgndata parameter which allows you to embed the pgn data within your post eliminating the need to have a pgn file on some server somewhere. It is not yet supported in the publishing options but if you are comfortable viewing the source for an html page and can learn from what you see take a look at
YAT (Yet Another Test). This has always been on my todo list and is intended to prevent potential future issues like this.
Update February 24, 2009 : Version 2.03 just released corrects a long standing but rare bug that affects games with captures on a1, h1, a8 or h8 (related to castling rights). It also displays more useful information if it is unable to parse the PGN file.
A new version of ChessFlash is now live. Please let me know if you see any unusual behavior. There should be no change except for the text / links back to the ChessFlash.com web site and one new feature described below which should be transparent to existing users.
The new feature allows web masters to install ChessFlash on their web site and store the games to be displayed on their web site removing their dependence on this web site. This feature is new experimental, but if you have a web site and want to try it, download the ChessFlash.download from http://chessflash.com/releases/latest/ChessFlash.download, place it on your web server and rename it to ChessFlash.swf. It should be able to display pgn files from the server it is on (and only that server) by specifying the full url to the pgn file in the pgnfile FlashVars parameter. See the HTML Options for additional information. For an example take a look at This is a test -- examine the page source for an example of how to embed it.
If you have questions or issues you can contact me at Glenn.Wilson [at] gmail [dot] com.
This release of the Viewer is covered by the Free Software Foundation GNU General Public License v 3 (GPLv3). The source code is under version control using Subversion and is available at: https://chessflash.springloops.com/source/openchessflash/ (username and password are anonymous).
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Cut and paste feature puts this app in its own league
You rule. Seriously great stuff.
I just test-drove it at my ICS Forum:
http://icsdiscussion.forumotion.net/postmortems-f23/flash-testing-ground...
Cool
Glad you like it! And that is a cool and educational game analysis bit. Good luck with your new forum.
Thank's
Thank you very much for this script.
I test it on CMS SPIP, on my website Chessnaute and i's exactly what i want to show games.
Philippe
Chessnaute a chessplayer on the web
You're Welcome
and I'm glad it's working for you on your site: http://www.chessnaute.com/
Multiple parties
Thank you to you for this great tool. Of all those I tested, it is more efficient to publish a game.
Do you think it will be possible to publish multiple parties?
Philippe
Chessnaute a chessplayer on the web
Multiple Games from a Single PGN
Currently, if a pgn file has multiple games ("parties", for our French users) ChessFlash displays the first game and ignores everything following. I took this approach initially because a) it was easier to implement and b) I wanted to avoid users trying to use/download huge multi-megabyte pgn databases because of the startup delay and possible bandwidth concerns on ChessFlash.com.
There is nothing to prevent ChessFlash from being changed to display an index or table of contents as the initial view for a pgn file with multiple games. I agree that it would be useful functionality. But, I have no specific plans to add this functionality at this time. Perhaps someone else will add this functionality (the ChessFlash viewer is now open source) or perhaps I will at some point in the future.