Chess Flash

More PGN Viewer

noreply@blogger.com (ChessFlash) — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:18:00 +0000

I made these colors match my blogger template after the complaints about my previous red and green "christmas theme".

Now, I expect complaints about my blogger template colors. :) The layout demos a "compact layout." The layout options and colors are specifed as parameters in the html that embeds the viewer (take a look at the page source if you are interested in the gory details).

(Update: Experimenting with wrapping text around the viewer.)

(Update Again: Wrapping text seems to have been the cause of a defect with FireFox 3 so I turned it off).

(Update Yet Again: Enclosing the OBJECT and EMBED tags in a DIV tag seems to fix the flashing text so wrapping text is now back on.)

A scrollbar has been added! Yeah!

The game is my game against Kevin Gafni in the recent LEPer tourney. He won the tournament and this game. I played the opening pretty well but went astray around move 26 when I was surprised by his Rd4 (I'd overlooked that he could play it). I may have played on a bit too long but with two rooks on there were some chances... (analysis by Fritz)

Also see http://glennwilson.com/chess/2008/05/more-pgn-viewer.html for another layout and different colors. Feedback on the game and the viewer are welcome!

Tabbed PGN Viewer

noreply@blogger.com (ChessFlash) — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:17:00 +0000

Here is another (see previous post) sample of the ChessFlash PGN Viewer, this time showing the Saavedra Position. The point of this demo is to show the concept of the "tabbed variations" board on the right. As you scroll through the main line using the buttons on the green board, note the "tabs" on the red board and try clicking those to see what happens. Does it make sense to you? You can also click in the text area.

All feedback and bug reports are welcome.

ChessFlash PGN Viewer Test

noreply@blogger.com (ChessFlash) — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:24:00 +0000

This is a test to check embedding this viewer and using it in different browsers. The game is mine against Polly in the recent LEPer tournament.

The viewer is live. Click the arrows, click the moves in the text area. Experiment -- it should mostly make sense.

The green board is for viewing the main line and the red board is for viewing variations (click a variation move in the text area to load it in the red board). A number of new features are planned including "tabbing" the variations board to select among parallel variations.

Adobe Flash 9 is required. If you can see the viewer, any feedback is appreciated. If you can't see it in your browser, please let me know.

ChessFlash Prototype V 0.001

noreply@blogger.com (ChessFlash) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:41:00 +0000

This is a very early "concept prototype" of the ChessFlash viewer just to demonstrate some of the basic ideas and possibilities. ChessFlash is designed to allow the user to play over games and to play custom chess instruction. Aesthetics, quick web page loading and ease of use are high on the list of design criteria. This prototype lacks the ability to show the text of the game moves or alternate variations. The appearance and size is customizable based on how it is embedded into the web page -- note the viewer embedded in the side bar and view the page source for details.

ChessFlash is built using Flash and requires Flash 9. The plan is to add audio, highlighting, lines, arrows and so on that can be played back with the moves for instructional purposes. At this point, I can use it to author games or instructional pieces but it is nowhere near ready for anyone other than me to use for authoring content.

Any feedback, thoughts or comments are welcome.

What is Chess Flash?

noreply@blogger.com (ChessFlash) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:19:00 +0000

We appreciate your interest. More information will be available soon.