Best way to broadcast a live chess match?

Hi,

Is there a way to broadcast a live chess match through an online board? I mean posting play by play without using video broadcast of course. More or less like an analysis board or a board editor that one can share to friends as the game is played and not at the end of it like a regular PGN game.

I'm not sure if this is the right forum but since the answer I'm looking is for broadcasting the final match of a local club tournament, well I posted this here.

Any guidance is appreciated thanks!!

Sure! Just buy a DGT board and set for more than $1,000. The moves will be relayed automatically to your computer and the world!

Well notmtwain, not sure if you're being sarcastic but I didn't mean broadcasting automatically via a physical connected board, I meant some app, website or even a script I could embed to my site where I could post the algebraic notation move by move or make the move my self online trying to replicate the game that is taking place, instead of just posting "Hey guys this was the first move 1.e4 c5" and one minute later "this was the second move 2. Nf3 Nc6" and so on.

How many people do you think will want to follow the match that way? I believe that the live analysis boards here can be shared that way.

You can provide them with your live chess link, and they'll be able to watch!

Have fun!

Thanks notmtwain and inflamableking :)

It depends on how much work you are prepared to do at the broadcasting site. There are several ways people broadcast comp-vs-comp games, although none entrirely satisfactory. But there the players already exchange moves in 'machine-readable form', so it is easy to automate their further distribution.

I think playchess has a service where you can upload PGN, and a (rather large) client program you can download for free would be able to view up to 8 of them simultaneous.

Of course there is pgn4web, a JavaScript applet that you can embed in your own web page, which can also be used to monitor a growing PGN file. You can organize a broadcast based on this. (Go to http://www.top-5000.nl/pgn4web/live.htm to see it in action.)

In both the above cases you would have to add the moves by hand to the PGN,and upload it to the server every time a move is added. You could add the moves through a chess GUI.

Of course you can have the game being played on an Internet Chess Server, (possibly running your own; there exists open-source code for an ICS), so people can connect with an ICS client (like WinBoard or Chess Partner) to watch the game. If the game does not really takeplace on the ICS you would have to 'mirror' it by starting a game through two clients, and alternately play the moves for white and black in them.

Other broadcasting software is TLCV/TLCS, (although I am not sure that would work for on gamesother than comp-vs-comp), which also requires the viewers to install a dedicated client (which is pretty hard to get running).

In the past I have used the ChessLive! viewer for broadcasting games. This is a web-browser-based solution which broadcasted comp-comp games directly from the machine where they were being played under WinBoard. (If not, you would have to upload a file moves.txt to the actual server each time WinBoard appends a new move to it.) This would look like http://hgm.nubati.net/WCCC/game1/chess.html . (Although I am not broadcasting there now, you still see a game there that was finished.) I think this would also work if you enter the moves of both sides of a game into WinBoard by hand (in Edit Game mode), but I never tried it.

The simplest way, though maybe not ideal, is to post a comment here where you insert a chess diagram and game.  You can edit the comment to update the game as it goes along - with comments in and outside the move list - and let others add comments.

If you get to the point where you make a video of it and post it someplace like YouTube, remember to make excited-voice, outrageous praise of the moves.

The high school chess club I ran was once watching a GM game on TV when, after a surprise move was made, the announcer screamed out, "There's pandemonium on the chessboard!"

My players laughed hysterically and that became our chess team's motto!  As a Tournament Director I often didn't have a chance to check out all my players' games.  So when something interesting was happening, one of my players would walk up to me, point to the game, and say, "There's pandemonium on the chessboard!"

Is there any Live stream of real time movement automatically like in PGN format or super animation type  without human interaction  ??

Ok