- Figurine Notation
- By default, the PGN Viewer will show the pieces as graphical figures instead of piece letters.
- Resizable board
- The board can be resized by dragging on the resize handles to the right of the board.
- Board Preferences
- The Viewer has a settings button in the top left which allows board preferences to be set, these
will be remembered in a browser cookie for when you next return to using the viewer.
- Move entry
- The viewer can be used to enter your own list of moves by moving the pieces, or to add or
investigate side variations to an existing game.
- View the game in the Chesstempo Opening Explorer
- The PGN Viewer includes a button which loads the current game into the Chesstempo database page
where you can explore the opening, or find other games which match positions in the current game.
- Show/Download PGN
-
The Show PGN button allows you to see the source PGN of the game, and to download the PGN to your
machine, this is especially useful if you have been annotating a game, and wish to save the results.
- Arrows and Square highlighting
-
Using arrows or square colouring to highlight particular aspects of a game is supported with special PGN
comments. These are covered in more detail below.
- Mini-board comment Support
-
Move comments can include a '#' symbol which will embed a board showing the current state of the board
into the move comment.
- Variation folding
-
Variations can be hidden and expanded by the user, this often helps makes complicated games with lots of
variations much more readable.
- Annotation Window
- The annotation window allows you to add or edit comments on the game you are viewing. It can
also be used to add Annotation Symbols such as !, ? etc to moves or positions. The annotation window is
also used to turn folding on and off, and to perform variation manipulations such as promoting or deleting
variations.
- Keyboard bindings
-
The viewer supports a large range of keyboard bindings, that allow for rapid annotation of games using
only the keyboard, without the need for mouse interactions for most operations.
