Our Plans for a Mighty Online Chess Website
We are going to offer the following chess services on our website:
- Play Chess Online
- Chess Discussion Forum
- Position Analysis Tools
Whether you will be playing a private game, participating in a tournament,
or reading the discussion forum, you will always have access to an interactive
chessboard (WiseBoard Editor) allowing you to do the following things:
- set an arbitrary position on the board
- add new figurines to the board
- move existing figurines on the board without restriction
- remove figurines from the board
- make regular chess moves
- navigate back and forward through your editing changes (full undo support)
- open the board in a new window - as many windows as you please
- save such editing windows for future access
- post chess diagrams to the discussion forum
- post interactive diagrams (with a game history) to the discussion forum.
Analysis Tools and Discussion Forum
Notice that the WiseBoard Editor can be a useful tool for position analysis because
you can have as many chessboards as you please and each chessboard remembers what has
happened on it - allowing you to return to previous positions in the analysis history
and open them in new windows to reflect the branching nature of chess analysis.
Additionally, you can save your analysis results for future access or post them to
the discussion forum.
Our chess discussion forum is going to be a really suitable place for exchanging chess
ideas, asking chess questions, and solving chess problems collectively - thanks to the
option of posting static diagrams or dynamic diagrams with an embedded game history.
Such dynamic diagrams can start with any arbitrarily set position and allow
navigation through the embedded history.
Forum readers will be able to open such posted diagrams into their private
WiseBoard Editor windows, do all things mentioned above to these diagrams,
and post a response diagram to the forum as a reply. Of course, it will be possible
to write normal text in the forum.
Comfort and Focus on Good Play
Our interface is going to be easy to use and rich in possibilities to make it comfortable
for you to play good chess. We will give you the option to choose between many sets of images
for the chess figurines, and you will be able to adjust the size of the squares to make
the board larger or smaller. (Try out different square sizes in our WiseBoard Editor demo version.)
Our powerful analysis tools will make it easy for you to think and analyze your position
before you make your move. We hope to bring out your best chess skills
by giving you a good chess-playing interface.
We are already writing the code to make this all work
We have already started writing the programs that are necessary to set this project going.
At the present moment, we are showing the first crude version for demo purposes.
Take a look at the
WiseBoard Editor
to get a foretaste of the future power of WiseBoard Chess at Apronus.com.
If you are interested in the future of the WiseBoard Chess project, you can increase our motivation
to keep on working on this project by subscribing to the WiseBoard Chess mailing list.
If we see many people signing up for the mailing list, we will know that there is interest
in our solution for the problem of playing good chess online and discussing chess online,
and so we will work harder to get it started as soon as possible.
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[Chess Links]
You might be interested in our list of chess virtues: the positive traits of character
and psychological skills that might be developed thanks to learning to play good chess.
[Chess Virtues]
We have the technology to make chess diagrams as HTML content.
Let the demonstration below serve to convince you.
