Drag and Drop piece movement works by clicking on the piece you want to move, keeping the mouse button down, and moving the piece to its destination, before releasing the mouse button. If you change your mind during piece movement, you can return the piece to its start position and release it there (no touch-move on Chess Tempo :-) ). If you are uncertain where the piece started, and want to cancel the move, then drop the piece outside of the board boundaries and the piece will snap back to its original location.

Click and Click piece movement works using two separate clicks to select the piece to move and its destination square. If a piece has been selected, it can be deselected by either clicking again on the piece, or clicking or a different piece of the same colour (which will then select the second piece).

Jump to the start of the move list, this sets up the board in the position before the first move has been played. For tactic and endgame boards, this also animates the opponent "pre-move", that sets up the position at the start of the problem.

Go back one move.

Go forward one move.

Go to end of move list, this brings you to the position AFTER the last move was played.

Auto play the current moves , starting with the next move from the current position. Unless the stop button is clicked, play will continue until the end of the move list (or variation) is reached.

Stop auto playing moves.

This option allows you to select the size of the board in pixel units.

The style of image used for pieces.

The colour or texture used for the board squares.

The style of the icons used for navigation and other board related actions.

The size of the board icons such as navigation and action buttons.

The size of the border around the board used to display the board co-ordinates.

The style used to display the moves. Indented style displays main line moves one after another, and indents to a new line for a new variation. Two Column style presents each white and black move on a separate line in a two-column format.

Moves can be highlighted with either arrows or by colouring the source and destination squares. Both methods can be used, and highlighting can be turned off by disabling both methods of highlighting. The highlighting option applies to both the last move, and to pre-move indication for the board that have pre-move enabled.

This option determines if sounds will be played on this board. Sounds include piece movement sound, but may include other types of audio notifications, depending on the context the board is being used in.

Allows you to turn auto-promote on, and choose the piece to auto-promote to (usually the Queen).

Turn on drag and drop piece movement.

Turn on/off click and click piece movement (i.e. the movement of the piece by clicking the source and then the destination square).

The figurine notation option allows you to choose if you want move list notation to replace piece letters with small piece images for each piece.

The board will attempt to use the SVG format for piece images on browsers than provide good SVG support, however some browsers may perform better if PNG piece images are used. This option allows you to force the use of PNG images on a browser that would otherwise choose SVG pieces.

The size of the font used in the move list.

The delay between moves if the play moves button is clicked.

The speed of the piece animations.