Drawing arrows in game editor

Hi everyone,

I think chess.com has a fantastic game editor that allows you to annotate your own games and copy them in pgn format, which I can then go through in a pgn reader (separate software).

However, I think it would be a great improvement if the game editor allowed you to draw arrows, highlight squares etc. I understand this is possible in "analysis board" but not in game editor.

If it were possible in game editor, I could then copy the pgn and go through the games in my pgn reader, and see all the arrows, highlights etc.

Any thoughts on this?

Well, I could be wrong, but I think it's more than just the Chess.com end. Your software program (e.g., SCID, Arena) would also have to recognize those arrows and load them. I'm not quite sure that the arrows would load, at least in SCID. You can draw arrows in SCID as well of course, I'm just not sure if it's programmed to recognize arrows drawn in external editors or not.

Hi guys, thanks for the comments, appreciate it.

@WeLearnChess, I think like you said, it might be the case that it's more than just the chess.com end. I guess in this case I would need to use program that can draw arrows and read pgns. That makes sense, thanks.

Yeah, I've tried drawing errors in SCID. You can do it, but personally I found it pretty awkward. I'm not sure if Arena or other programs are better though, and in general I like SCID as an interface.