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Introduction

ChessDiag is a utility to visualize, create, read and edit FEN lines. The main purpose of ChessDiag is the preparation of chess diagrams as HTML code for visualizing chess positions in web based chess fora.

Input

Either copy a FEN line via clipboard to ChessDiag or setup the position directly on the chessboard.
Hint: The FEN line under the chessboard is a readonly textfield. So you can't enter a FEN line in this field.

Output

ChessDiag produces mainly his output to the Windows clipboard, but some also to files:

• Cliboard Formats:
  
  • ASCII
    
  • Bitmap
    
  • CCC FEN string
    
  • FEN string
    
  • HTML
    Because HTML data output is the main purpose of ChessDiag, you can directly use the following two buttons in the main window:
    • Preview HTML
      Shows the HTML based diagram in your local browser with the local pieces' copies (no network access needed).
    • Create HTML
      Copies the HTML code to the clipboard.
  • PGN
    
• File Formats:
  
  • BMP
    
  • PNG
    

Download

• ChessDiag V1.01 (12-OCT-2002)
  (size: 464K)
  New features:
  1. Add coordinates to BMP/PNG images
  2. New item: 'Edit/Copy as/Bitmap
     Copy the image data as a bitmap to the clipboard.
• ChessDiag V1.0 (29-SEP-2002)
  (size: 462K)