In Vote chess, it can sometimes become very wordy to explain how you visualise the way forward with lengthy prose and a sequence of notations - very hard for other team members to follow - so much so that your reader will give up following your drift.
Hence, inserting a diagram is a fantastic (and surprisingly easy) way of doing this. Give it a try!
⦁Step 1. Just above the text box, you will see a chessboard icon, the first icon on the message toolbar. Click it!
⦁Step 2. Select "Games or sequence of moves" (it's the second radio button), click "Continue"
⦁Step 3. Insert the game position you want to display by pasting the FEN. You get this by clicking the 'download' icon at the bottom of the white information panel. If you want to use a FEN you have to click the FEN window and copy the FEN text of the game notation; that's what you want to paste. Then click "Continue."
Step 3 & 1/2 - You reach the Game Editor window. if you are playing black, you need to firstly 'swap ends' with the 'setup position' tab, and pressing the 'about face' icon. Then select the 'moves' tab.
⦁Step 4. You simply drag the pieces around to enter the moves you want to display. You can also add comments on any move in the text boxes provided. (After inserting a comment, be sure to make at least one additional move or the comment will not be saved.)
⦁Step 5. Check in the "Preview" tab how your comments look, then continue adding comments in "Game Editor".
⦁Step 7. When you finish commenting, click "Insert", now your game is in your post.
DO NOT close the page from which you started to add analysis. Your game will not get inserted anywhere, and there will be no warning, you'll just lose what you worked on!
In Vote chess, it can sometimes become very wordy to explain how you visualise the way forward with lengthy prose and a sequence of notations - very hard for other team members to follow - so much so that your reader will give up following your drift.
Hence, inserting a diagram is a fantastic (and surprisingly easy) way of doing this. Give it a try!
⦁Step 1. Just above the text box, you will see a chessboard icon, the first icon on the message toolbar. Click it!
⦁Step 2. Select "Games or sequence of moves" (it's the second radio button), click "Continue"
⦁Step 3. Insert the game position you want to display by pasting the FEN. You get this by clicking the 'download' icon at the bottom of the white information panel. If you want to use a FEN you have to click the FEN window and copy the FEN text of the game notation; that's what you want to paste. Then click "Continue."
⦁Step 4. You simply drag the pieces around to enter the moves you want to display. You can also add comments on any move in the text boxes provided. (After inserting a comment, be sure to make at least one additional move or the comment will not be saved.)
⦁Step 5. Check in the "Preview" tab how your comments look, then continue adding comments in "Game Editor".
⦁Step 7. When you finish commenting, click "Insert", now your game is in your post.
DO NOT close the page from which you started to add analysis. Your game will not get inserted anywhere, and there will be no warning, you'll just lose what you worked on!