To put diagrams with movable pieces & analysis in your post, use the left-most icon in the post-writing area. It looks like a little chessboard, and the mouseover says "insert chess game or diagram".
If you want to start with a position from a game in progress - say, the current position from a vote chess game - here's how I do it: - Go to the game, in its current position. - Click on the "download" icon. It looks like an arrow pointing downwards into a tray. - Copy the FEN text at the top of the download window. It should look something like "rnbqkbnr/pp1ppppp/2p5/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 1 2". There are many ways to do this, I triple-click the text to highlight the whole thing, then press control-c to copy. - Click the "insert chess game or diagram" icon in your post.
- Click "setup position". - Paste the FEN text into the FEN box. I do this by triple-clicking to highlight the entire text, then pressing control-v to paste.
- If you want to show the board from black's perspective, click the "flip board" icon. - Click on "moves" - On the board, make whatever moves you want to show in your analysis - To comment on a move, right-click on it, then write your comment.
- To show subvariations, click on the move where you want to start your subvariation. Then start making moves on the board. The rest should be pretty obvious. The end result should look something like this:
To put diagrams with movable pieces & analysis in your post, use the left-most icon in the post-writing area. It looks like a little chessboard, and the mouseover says "insert chess game or diagram".
If you want to start with a position from a game in progress - say, the current position from a vote chess game - here's how I do it:
- Go to the game, in its current position.
- Click on the "download" icon. It looks like an arrow pointing downwards into a tray.
- Copy the FEN text at the top of the download window. It should look something like "rnbqkbnr/pp1ppppp/2p5/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 1 2". There are many ways to do this, I triple-click the text to highlight the whole thing, then press control-c to copy.
- Click the "insert chess game or diagram" icon in your post.
- Click "setup position".
- Paste the FEN text into the FEN box. I do this by triple-clicking to highlight the entire text, then pressing control-v to paste.
- If you want to show the board from black's perspective, click the "flip board" icon.
- Click on "moves"
- On the board, make whatever moves you want to show in your analysis
- To comment on a move, right-click on it, then write your comment.
- To show subvariations, click on the move where you want to start your subvariation. Then start making moves on the board.
The rest should be pretty obvious. The end result should look something like this:
Hope that helps!