Diagrams?

All Things Chess
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I’m a newbie to this board.

Why isn’t there a utility that would allow people to easily post a diagram? This is a chess forum, right?

I suppose someone could set up a position on a physical board, take a picture of it with a digital camera, then attach the image, but that seems like a lot of work.

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There is a utility. It’s called ChessBase Light.

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chessup.net/

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There is no “simple” way to do it on this forum. And by simple I mean as in uploading a photo to Facebook. Our web site and forums are archaic.

5

Even better, chessvideos.tv/chess-diagram-generator.php. It hosts the diagrams so that you don’t have to.

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If you post a diagram online as a graphic, you can link to it. For an example, you can see how a graphic is pulled in at viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6784&p=96512&hilit=+#p96512

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One option is to quote a post that already has a diagram in it and then modify it.

If you do a quote on this post you will see that the board below is defined by a bunch of dashes and piece abbreviations. (copied from the thread viewtopic.php?f=23&t=16369 )

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Here’s one that will let you use FEN to specify the position directly in the URL: net-chess.com/chessboard.html

Big diagram:
[img]http://www.net-chess.com/diagram.cgi/rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR.jpg[/img]

Small diagram:
[img]http://www.net-chess.com/diagram.cgi/rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR/size.small/end.jpg[/img]

Big diagram:

Small diagram:

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There are several: I’ve used http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-diagram-generator.php

Chessup.net is my favorite, because the colors can be edited:

Korol’kov 1951: White to play and win